Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner’s ‘Being Charlie’ Interviews Gave a Glimpse at a Family’s Tragic Struggles With Addiction

Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s murders on Sunday were shocking for many reasons – their sheer brutality, the sad fact that it involved one of Hollywood’s gentlest souls, and that the couple’s son, Nick Reiner, is allegedly the killer. I had seen a brief glimpse into their father-son dynamic when I interviewed Rob and Nick when they were at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival with “Being Charlie,” a drama based on Nick’s struggle to get sober.

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We talked for maybe 45 minutes, and the resulting piece was all-too brief, but I’ve been turning that interview, as well as the three or four others I conducted with Rob in my career, over in my head since the news broke. It’s impossible to comprehend what would make someone murder anyone,

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