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\n Related: <\/span>Rob Reiner’s Best Roles: From ‘New Girl’ to ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tHollywood is remembering famed director Rob Reiner following his death at age 78. News broke in December 2025 that two people \u2014 a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman \u2014 were found dead at Reiner\u2019s Brentwood, California, home. A spokesperson for the Reiner family later confirmed that Rob and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Reiner starred as Max in The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> alongside Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong>, who appeared as Jordan. The film, produced and directed by Martin Scorsese<\/strong>, follows Jordan\u2019s career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm engaged in corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which led to his downfall.<\/p>\nReiner previously discussed how he had \u201cfun\u201d working on The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> with Scorsese, 83, because he \u201chas a way of setting a tone on the set that allows everybody to feel comfortable and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n![\"Jordan](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MCDWOOF_EC094-Jordan-Belfort-Received-a-Video-From-Rob-Reiner-Before-Dad-Maxs-Death-in-2019.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Jon Favreau, Leonardo DiCaprio and Rob Reiner in \u2018The Wolf of Wall Street\u2019<\/span> Mary Cybulski\/\u00a9Paramount Pictures\/courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cHe gets the best out of people,\u201d Reiner explained in a 2013 interview with celebrity.land<\/em><\/a>. \u201cYou know, you have a script, but then he lets you improvise and he knows that if you can improvise, you\u2019re going to hit on something that\u2019s going to be a little bit more alive than anything that could be written in the script. And since his films are really so character driven \u2014 the characters are the story, you know? \u2014 he doesn\u2019t heavily plot movies. They\u2019re kind of character pieces and the characters, like I say, become the stories. So he knows, if that is going to be the case, that he\u2019s got to make it so that the actors can squeeze the most out of their characters.\u201d<\/p>\nOn Sunday, December 14, Rob and his wife, Michele Reiner<\/strong>, were found dead<\/a> inside of their Los Angeles home. The filmmaker was 78, while his wife was 68.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,\u201d a family spokesman told Variety<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reiner previously discussed how he had \u201cfun\u201d working on The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> with Scorsese, 83, because he \u201chas a way of setting a tone on the set that allows everybody to feel comfortable and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe gets the best out of people,\u201d Reiner explained in a 2013 interview with celebrity.land<\/em><\/a>. \u201cYou know, you have a script, but then he lets you improvise and he knows that if you can improvise, you\u2019re going to hit on something that\u2019s going to be a little bit more alive than anything that could be written in the script. And since his films are really so character driven \u2014 the characters are the story, you know? \u2014 he doesn\u2019t heavily plot movies. They\u2019re kind of character pieces and the characters, like I say, become the stories. So he knows, if that is going to be the case, that he\u2019s got to make it so that the actors can squeeze the most out of their characters.\u201d<\/p>\n On Sunday, December 14, Rob and his wife, Michele Reiner<\/strong>, were found dead<\/a> inside of their Los Angeles home. The filmmaker was 78, while his wife was 68.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,\u201d a family spokesman told Variety<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>
\n Jon Favreau, Leonardo DiCaprio and Rob Reiner in \u2018The Wolf of Wall Street\u2019<\/span> Mary Cybulski\/\u00a9Paramount Pictures\/courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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