Julia Jacobs

And he also has this vibrant political life.

He gets really involved in the fight for gay marriage.

He actually spearheads a ballot measure revolving around early education in California.

He becomes this really multifaceted figure that is known for more than just his filmmaking.

Absolutely.

I mean, Reiner was against Trump from the beginning, became a vocal critic over the years.

And in one of his final interviews in recent months, warned that Trump was leading the country into autocracy.

And this was all thrown into sharp relief after his death when Trump suggested that his death had to do with Reiner's own opposition to him.

Right.

As everyone sifts through what there is on the Internet about the relationship between Nick and his parents, what keeps coming to the fore are these interviews that he did with his father when they were making this movie together.

It's called Being Charlie, and it's actually loosely based on their own relationship, focused on a son who is battling a drug addiction and a father who's an actor turned politician.

And the idea from this movie came from Nick Reiner when he was in rehab.

You know, throughout his teenage years, he said he was in treatment roughly 18 different times.

Wow.

Mm-hmm.

There was clearly a deep conflict between Nick and his parents over how to approach his own addiction recovery, and those themes really shine through in the movie.

There's this line where the father in the movie is talking to his son, who's battling drug addiction, and the father says, Wow.

And so during this round of interviews, Rob and Nick are talking about how this movie affected their relationship.

Rob said it made him understand his son a lot more and that he hoped it made him a better father.

Even though he and his father didn't bond a lot as a kid, it better helped him understand his dad.