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I had no idea. This is a terrible tragedy, he was a brilliant director. I just watched the second Spinal Tap this past weekend.
 
A terrible loss - a very talented man.

(And I'm so old, I remember his father, Carl Reiner!)

from a Reddit post:

In the pandemic, there was a multi-celeb-made reading/reenactment of The Princess Bride. In the final scene, Rob plays the boy being read the story, while the person playing the grandfather would have been recording it elsewhere. Rob had not been told that in the final scene, the grandfather would be played by his real father, legendary Carl Reiner. Carl Reiner died before Rob found out about this, and the footage came as a posthumous surprise. Not only was his last message from his dad him paying tribute to his sons work as a peer, but he spoke the last line to camera, to Rob: “As you wish.”

From the film: “That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying 'As you wish,' what he meant was, 'I love you.'
 
A terrible loss - a very talented man.

(And I'm so old, I remember his father, Carl Reiner!)

from a Reddit post:

In the pandemic, there was a multi-celeb-made reading/reenactment of The Princess Bride. In the final scene, Rob plays the boy being read the story, while the person playing the grandfather would have been recording it elsewhere. Rob had not been told that in the final scene, the grandfather would be played by his real father, legendary Carl Reiner. Carl Reiner died before Rob found out about this, and the footage came as a posthumous surprise. Not only was his last message from his dad him paying tribute to his sons work as a peer, but he spoke the last line to camera, to Rob: “As you wish.”

From the film: “That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying 'As you wish,' what he meant was, 'I love you.'
Carl was a genius writer!
 
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