Kiefer Sutherland recalled working with late director Rob Reiner on one in every of his hottest movies, the 1992 authorized drama A Few Good Males, a long time earlier than his dying.
Sutherland, 58, particularly remembered costar Jack Nicholson impressing Reiner by delivering the movie’s iconic “You’ll be able to’t deal with the reality” scene in a single take.
“Nobody mentioned a phrase, and Rob went as much as Jack Nicholson and whispered in his ear, ‘Do you need to do one other one?’ And Jack Nicholson mentioned, ‘Nicely, we’re right here,’” Sutherland mentioned in a clip from the upcoming particular CBS Information: Rob Reiner — Scenes From a Life launched on Friday, December 19. “In order that they did one other one, and it was simply as extraordinary.”
Reiner determined that Nicholson’s work was so spectacular, everybody may go house early that day.
“They’d deliberate to shoot the entire day, and Rob checked out all people and mentioned, ‘I couldn’t ask for something extra, so that you guys all have the remainder of the time off,’” Sutherland remembered.
Sutherland additionally labored with Reiner on the 1986 movie Stand by Me, together with Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell. Sutherland, Feldman, 54, Wheaton, 53, and O’Connell, 51, all shared tributes to Reiner following the information of his and spouse Michele Singer Reiner’s deaths on Sunday, December 14.
“Rob was a superb one that put nice artwork into the world, who made a constructive distinction in additional lives than any of us can think about,” Wheaton wrote in a weblog publish on Monday, December 15. “The world is a greater place due to his activism and the way in which he selected to make use of all of his privilege and affect. Relaxation in peace Rob and Michele. Might their recollections be a blessing.”
Hours after their murders, Rob and Michele’s son Nick Reiner was arrested on suspicion of homicide and held with out bail. He was subsequently charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and faces life in jail with out parole or the dying penalty if convicted.
Nick appeared in courtroom for the primary time on Wednesday, December 17, together with his lawyer Alan Jackson. He didn’t but enter a plea. An arraignment is ready for January 7, 2026.

Rob and Michele’s deaths had been dominated a murder, and their official reason for dying was listed as “a number of sharp power accidents.” The director was 78 and the photographer was 70. (Rob and Michele additionally shared son Jake, 34, and daughter Romy, 27, in addition to Rob’s older daughter, Tracy, 61, whom he adopted throughout his first marriage to Penny Marshall.)
Following Nick’s arrest, Feldman appeared in The Rob Reiner Story: A Hollywood Tragedy – ABC Information Particular on Tuesday, December 16. He revealed he suspected Nick’s involvement in Rob and Michele’s deaths immediately.
“As we watched the information unfold, I used to be truly the primary one who mentioned, ‘I believe it was his son,’” Feldman informed the digital camera. “It’s terrible. It’s the worst factor I may think about. … Accepting that undeniable fact that this might have occurred in his house from his personal son, it despatched shivers and chills down all of us.”
“All I may suppose is, ‘Oh my God, there’s no means this might have occurred to my pal,’” Feldman recalled.

