When Nick Reiner was photographed alongside his household on the Los Angeles premiere of his father’s comedy musical, “Spinal Tap II,” in September, he wasn’t smiling.
Instead, the son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and producer Michele Singer Reiner stood impassively for the household portrait alongside his siblings.
Three months later, Nick Reiner, 32, has been arrested and jailed on suspicion of homicide after his dad and mom have been discovered lifeless inside their residence within the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles Sunday. He’s being held on a $4 million bond.
Reiner has beforehand been open about his struggles with drug dependancy, together with homelessness and stints in rehab. He co-wrote the 2015 movie “Being Charlie,” a film impressed by these experiences and directed by his father.
“That made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff,” he told People magazine in 2016.
During the promotional tour for his movie, “Being Charlie,” Nick Reiner typically appeared alongside his father to debate how he used his personal experiences to tell the movie.
When they appeared in AOL’s speaker series “Build,” Nick Reiner shared there have been “a lot of dark years” as he fought via dependancy.
He mentioned he realized to make use of comedy as a method of dealing with some of his experiences in rehab, and later, he channeled it into the movie.
Rehab is “tragic and all but the people that are there are not going to want you to throw them a pity party. They’re going to want you to laugh at the situation and make light of it,” he mentioned.
During the identical interview, Rob Reiner known as the venture “the most personal thing I’ve ever done” and talked about working together with his son.
“You don’t set out to have a cathartic experience or be therapeutic in some way,” the elder Reiner mentioned. “The fact that we were dealing with things that Nick had gone through and how I had related to it and how his mother had related to it…it forced me to have to see more clearly and understand more deeply what Nick had gone through and I think it forced him to see things that I had experienced during this process.”
The Los Angeles Police Department has declined to share extra particulars about the investigation into Reiner and Singer Reiner’s demise. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has not filed any legal costs in reference to the case.
“We owe it to their memory to pursue justice and accountability for the lives that were tragically taken,” the district attorney’s office mentioned in a press release.