After sharing a room at The Juilliard School in New York in 1973, the Superman actor and the comic became close for many years.
Williams, who committed suicide in 2014, was good friends with the late Superman actor, who died nine years after being rendered paralyzed in a 1995 horseback riding accident.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a recent documentary, delves into a number of aspects of Reeve’s life, including his friendship with the actor and comedian.
Actress Close plays Robin Williams in the movie Fatal Attraction. She adds, “I always felt that if Chris was still around, Robin would still be alive.”
Williams and Reeve had roomed together at The Juilliard School in New York in 1973, and they had remained friends for decades.
Williams suffered Lewy body dementia, an irreversible brain illness that was mistakenly identified as Parkinson’s disease, at the time of his death.
The Good Will Hunting actor was “sobbing” and thought he had lost his “ability to be funny” due to a deep despair brought on by his failing health, according to many of his friends and coworkers.
Close has previously stated that she believed Williams would still be alive if Reeve was as well.
2017 saw Close characterize Williams and Reeves’s “connection” as “the stuff of legend” during a speech at the annual charity dinner for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, according to an ET News article.
“It not only endured, but became a life-giving force sustaining them both,” she stated.
describing how Reeves “would literally swoop in, piloting his own plane, scoop Robin up, and away they would fly for the weekend” when she was filming The World According to Garp with Williams in 1982.
