Glenn Close Believes Robin Williams “Would Still Be Alive” If Christopher Reeve “Was Still Around”

Robin Williams had a life-changing friend in Christopher Reeve, according to Glenn Close.

The actress opens up about the relationship between the late actors in the recently debuted Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Sundance documentary, per People, sharing that she “always felt that if Chris was still around, Robin would still be alive.”

Their friendship can be traced back to the ’70s, during which they roomed together at Juilliard. Reeve became paralyzed from the neck down in May 1995 due to a horseback riding accident, and ultimately passed away from heart failure in 2004. Williams died ten years later in 2014 by suicide following a battle with depression, per The New York Times.

According to the outlet, Close has previously shared her thoughts about Reeve and Williams publicly. Entertainment Tonight first documented Close saying that she is “convinced that if Chris were still with us, Robin would be too” during a speech at a 2017 gala held by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

“Their friendship, their connection, is the stuff of legend. It not only endured, but became a life-giving force sustaining them both,” she said at the time.

She explained that her “first connection to Christopher Reeve was through Robin Williams,” ultimately recalling moments she witnessed of their friendship while filming The World According to Garp with the latter.

Noting that “they were on top of the world,” she described their “friendship” and “connection” as “the stuff of legend.”

The doc about the life of the Superman star is close to being sold to Warner Bros. Discovery for approximately $15 million, Variety reports. Another touching moment of the film shows Reeve coming to terms with his paralysis, suggesting to his wife, “maybe we should let me go.”

The importance of films such as Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story was iterated by Reeve’s oldest son, Matthew, in a Jan. 22 interview with People. Matthew highlighted a lesson he took away from his father’s inspirational speech at the 1996 Academy Awards following his accident, remembering how Christopher discussed “how cinema and movies are at their best when they not only entertain, but they inform and educate and address issue.”

“So that’s always stuck with me,” he shared. “And that’s why also I feel like here, at Sundance, that’s what they do and that’s what they live for.”

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