Rob Reiner’s good friend and longtime collaborator Barry Markowitz mentioned the filmmaker’s son Nick Reiner seemed to be doing effectively throughout his latest keep on the household’s Brentwood dwelling, simply weeks earlier than Rob and Michele’s tragic murders.
In an interview with Web page Six revealed Tuesday, the cinematographer mentioned 32-year-old Nick, who has a historical past of habit, was there doing his Nov. 14 keep together with sister Romy. He appeared “on the upswing,” Markowitz mentioned, describing the jovial dynamic of the household as “one huge love fest.”
“[We would] scream on the TV, we watched a film and a basketball recreation. Performed with the canine. Household time. One huge love fest,” Markowitz recalled. “He seemed nice. He was sitting and speaking with the household … They eat dinner collectively, old skool, and lots of love, at all times lots of love.”
Markowitz, who labored with Reiner as DP on a number of initiatives — together with “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life” (2023), “Shock and Awe” (2017), “LBJ” (2016), “Being Charlie,” the semi-autobiographical 2015 movie co-written by Nick Reiner about his substance abuse — mentioned he witnessed Nick in good spirits and performing daily actions with the household.
“He helped out, he took out the rubbish, he watched TV, he washed dishes,” Markowitz, noting that nothing was “unusual” concerning the troubled son’s habits on the time. “He’d deliver me one thing to drink. He was simply regular in that sense.”
Over the course of the 5 nights that he stayed on the Reiners’ dwelling, the cinematographer emphasised that nothing was amiss.
“I’m not right here to guage anybody. L-o-v-e is the one factor I noticed, and I don’t assume it was faux,” Markowitz mentioned. “That they had an actual bond.”
Rob and Michele Reiner have been discovered useless of their Brentwood dwelling Sunday night, and Nick was arrested in South Los Angeles shortly after. He was charged Tuesday with two counts of first-degree homicide and is being held with out bail. Arraignment was delayed Wednesday.
