Mandy Patinkin is heartbroken over the lack of The Princess Bride director Rob Reiner and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner.
Patinkin opened up after Rob and Michele’s murders, telling Individuals in December 2025, “How will we course of this unthinkable tragedy? Loss after loss after loss! What is occurring to our world? What is occurring to our human race?”
“I can’t breathe, however I’m respiratory,” he added, as simply certainly one of Rob’s colleagues who has spoken out in anguish over the director’s demise.
Rob and Michele had been discovered useless of their Brentwood, California, dwelling on December 14, 2025, with their official reason behind demise listed as “a number of sharp power accidents” and the style dominated a murder. Their son Nick Reiner was arrested and held with out bail earlier than he was subsequently charged with two counts of first-degree homicide. If convicted, he faces life in jail with out parole or the demise penalty. His arraignment was set for January 7, 2026.
Patinkin portrayed Spanish henchman Inigo Montoya in Rob’s 1987 fantasy The Princess Bride alongside Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon, Robin Wright, Christopher Visitor, Wallace Shawn, André the Large and Fred Savage. The film gave him a plethora of recollections to final a lifetime and a friendship along with his castmates spanning a long time past the movie’s launch.
“I can by no means recover from, even proper now, that I obtained to be in that,” Patinkin advised The New Yorker in October 2020 of how Rob’s movie modified his life. “That I’m the man that you just’re speaking about, that I ended up being in what was primarily ‘The Wizard of Oz’ of my technology. … I pinch myself each time that I obtained to be that man. I cherished it greater than I can say.”
Scroll beneath for all of Patinkin’s quotes paying tribute to Rob and Michele and The Princess Bride.
Mandy Patinkin Calls Rob Reiner’s Loss of life a ‘Tsunami of Tragedy’
“I’m howling on the gods each second,” Mandy Patinkin advised Individuals at some point after Rob and Michele Reiner’s deaths. “Then I speak to a pal or myself and calm down and I notice the gods are to not blame, the tsunami of tragedy is the duty of human beings.”
Mandy Patinkin Hears Rob Reiner’s Voice
Mandy Patinkin recalled a selected scene in The Princess Bride that got here flooding again to his reminiscence after the tragedy.
“Once we had been filming the scene in The Princess Bride, the place Inigo kills the six-fingered man and says: ‘I would like my father again your son of a bitch,’ take after take after take Rob [Reiner] saved asking me to do much less, do much less, do much less,” Patinkin advised Individuals. “In my sleepless evening, I spotted he wished much less anger from me to permit my damaged coronary heart to be felt.”
“Now I’m listening to his voice inform us all to do extra, do extra, do extra to restore the human soul, to restore our hearts, to restore our nation, to restore our world,” he added. “To by no means quit, to maintain combating, to maintain residing for each soul taken from this Earth, that not has the life and breath to lift their voices for a greater world, we should elevate our voices for them.”
Mandy Patinkin Says Rob Reiner Set a Nice Instance
Mandy Patinkin inspired heartbroken followers of Rob Reiner’s to “comply with Rob’s instance.”
“Let Rob Reiner‘s actions information you. I don’t imagine we ever get better from such cumulative loss, however I’m sure it teaches us to dwell with a better goal to cherish each second that we’re alive to be of service to each facet of our existence to by no means quit,” the Homeland alum advised Individuals. “Once we’re feeling misplaced, say to ourselves, ‘What would Rob do?’ after which do it, do it for Rob, do it for all of us.”
Mandy Patinkin’s Reminiscence With ‘The Princess Bride’ Solid
Days after Rob and Michele Reiner’s deaths, Mandy Patinkin joined Patti LuPone on The View to debate their friendships with the late actor. The Felony Minds star shared certainly one of his favourite recollections from The Princess Bride set.
“There’s infinite tales, and the one I keep in mind most in the meanwhile, I imply, I keep in mind many, however we had been on the bus going as much as the English countryside close to Sheffield the place we shot the fort and different issues, and we had been on the bus, and Rob and Billy [Crystal] had been in entrance of me within the seats, and Chris Visitor was subsequent to me, and the three of them remembered each single factor that occurred in baseball after they had been like 4, 5, 6, 7 years previous, they usually had been going over each play, each inning, each sport,” Patinkin stated. “They’re finest pals, and I simply couldn’t say a phrase. My jaw dropped; simply the friendship was simply extraordinary, and it was so lovely I simply by no means forgot that. I couldn’t recover from that they may keep in mind like that, however it was the glue of their existence.”
How Rob Reiner Made Mandy Patinkin’s Dream Come True
Mandy Patinkin appeared in CBS Information’ particular Rob Reiner — Scenes From a Life in December 2025, recalling the primary screening of The Princess Bride in L.A.
“We’re sitting there on this screening room, and the movie was over, and I stated, ‘I by no means dreamed I’d get to be in one thing like this.’ I didn’t even have time to dream, and he made that dream for me,” he stated with tears streaming down his face.
Through the episode, Patinkin additionally revealed how he discovered about Rob and Michele Reiner’s murders.
“I heard this information at about 11-something on Sunday evening. I used to be in mattress. I used to be in shock. I didn’t sleep in any respect. I simply saved wailing and crying. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know the right way to course of it. I nonetheless don’t know the right way to course of it and I’m not in search of the right way to course of it,” Patinkin stated.
“Rob labored laborious to attempt to get me to be one of the best human being I could possibly be,” he continued. “One time he stated to me, ‘I simply want you may get out of your individual method,’ and I haven’t been in a position to obtain that to at the present time, however I received’t stop making an attempt. He cared about my nature. He confirmed it to me time and again.”
Patinkin stated that he is aware of Rob and Michele are with him in spirit. “I imagine that we are able to join with Rob and Michele, and each time we’re fascinated with this or speaking about it or anybody tells a narrative, he’s right here. He won’t be forgotten.”
The Lesson Mandy Patinkin Discovered From Rob Reiner
“He taught us to make use of our voice, our speech. Please, use it, use it, use it,” Mandy Patinkin stated on The View.
Mandy Patinkin on the ‘Insufferable’ Feeling of Dropping Rob Reiner
“He was simply one of the crucial beneficiant, sort individuals I ever knew,” Mandy Patinkin stated throughout a December 2025 episode of CBS Mornings. “I used to be going by way of a troublesome time at one level, and he known as Kathryn [Grody], my spouse, and myself and Michele [Singer Reiner], and he took us out to dinner, and he didn’t even point out any of the [difficulties]. He didn’t discuss something. He simply wished us each to know that they had been there for us if we would have liked them.”
“I am going to the fitness center, and individuals who by no means met Rob say, ‘You realize, we are able to’t cease fascinated with it,’” Patinkin added. “This isn’t the one time in individuals’s lives the place this type of state of affairs occurs. It’s insufferable.”
