The actual-life Wolf of Wall Street’s Jordan Belfort revealed that the late Rob Reiner sent him a video following his dad Max Belfort’s death in 2019.
“Rob Reiner sent this to my father on his death bed. Truly a category act. RIP,” Jordan, 63 — who inspired the story of the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street — wrote via Instagram on Monday, December 15.
Within the video, Reiner greeted Max and introduced himself, noting that he “played [him] within the movie.”
“It was a privilege,” Reiner gushed. “I got to know your son. I do know he’s with you now and everybody that you simply love is with you now and I just wish to say hi. You gave me an awesome thrill to give you the chance to play you within the film.”
Reiner starred as Max in The Wolf of Wall Street alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who appeared as Jordan. The film, produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, follows Jordan’s profession as a stockbroker in Latest York City and the way his firm engaged in corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which led to his downfall.
Reiner previously discussed how he had “fun” working on The Wolf of Wall Street with Scorsese, 83, because he “has a way of setting a tone on the set that enables everybody to feel comfortable and have a good time.”
Jon Favreau, Leonardo DiCaprio and Rob Reiner in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Mary Cybulski/©Paramount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection
“He gets one of the best out of individuals,” Reiner explained in a 2013 interview with HuffPost. “You understand, you will have a script, but then he helps you to improvise and he knows that if you happen to can improvise, you’re going to hit on something that’s going to be a bit bit more alive than anything that might be written within the script. And since his movies are really so character driven — the characters are the story, you understand? — he doesn’t heavily plot movies. They’re form of character pieces and the characters, like I say, develop into the stories. So he knows, if that’s going to be the case, that he’s got to make it in order that the actors can squeeze essentially the most out of their characters.”
On Sunday, December 14, Rob and his wife, Michele Reiner, were found dead inside their Los Angeles home. The filmmaker was 78, while his wife was 68.
“It’s with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,” a family spokesman told Variety. “We’re heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.”
Nick Robinson — who portrayed a version of Nick Reiner within the semi-autobiographical movie Being Charlie — has broken his silence after Rob and Michele Reiner‘s deaths. “RIP Rob Reiner. He showed me a lot kindness and style as a young actor,” Robinson, 30, wrote via Instagram Stories on Monday, December 15. “An incredible artist […]
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Us that Rob and Michele were found dead “from apparent stab wounds.”
At some point after the couple’s deaths, Us reported that Rob and Michele’s son Nick Reiner was arrested on a murder charge. (Rob and Michele also shared kids Jake, 34, Romy, 28, along with Rob’s daughter Tracy, 61, with ex Penny Marshall.)
The Reiner family was candid about Nick, 32, battling addiction and the way it had caused tension inside the family. Nick began to struggle with drug use as a youngster, which led to a rehab stint when he was 15. After several relapses and treatment stints, Nick began to continue to exist the road — which he said led him to get clean.
“That made me who I’m now, having to cope with that stuff,” Nick explained to People in a 2016 interview. “I met crazy great people there, so out of my element. Now, I’ve been home for a very very long time, and I’ve form of gotten acclimated back to being in L.A. and being around my family. After I was on the market, I could’ve died. It’s all luck. There have been plenty of dark years there.”
Nick’s experiences led to the inspiration behind Rob’s 2015 film Being Charlie, which told the story of an addict son (Nick Robinson) of a California politician (Cary Elwes) who starts a relationship with a rehab patient (Morgan Saylor).
“In case your kid goes through rough times, [as] the parent, your fundamental job is to maintain your child protected. So I might do anything,” Rob shared during a Construct Series interview in 2015. “At the tip of the day, I do know my child higher than an authority does and I probably must have trusted my very own instinct and that’s one among the things I did learn concerning the whole experience.”