Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has decided to break his silence and offer a glimpse into the grieving process he is going through as a result of the death of his colleague and friend Rob Reiner, who was found dead alongside his wife Michele Singer at their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on December 14.

It was Through a moving essay published in The New York Times, the director of “The Wolf of Wall Street” spoke for the first time about the death of the filmmaker and his wife, calling it “an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality.” In his lines, Scorsese nostalgically recalls the 1970s, when he met Rob Reiner at one of the gatherings organized by comedian George Memmoli. It was from then on that the two artists began a friendship that remained intact until the day of his death. "Rob Reiner was my friend, and Michele was too. From now on I'll have to use the past tense, and that fills me with such deep sadness," the filmmaker stated. He went on to highlight the qualities that made them an unparalleled team: "From the first moment I loved spending time with Rob. We had a natural affinity. He was hilarious and, at times, bitingly funny, but he was never the type of person to hog the room," he added. However, the praise was not limited to his personal life, but extended to his professional work as well. And we can't forget that they shared the screen in the film "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013), where Reiner played the father of Leonardo DiCaprio's character. "I was moved by the delicacy and openness of his performance when we filmed it, I was moved again when we pieced the scene together in editing, and I was moved once more when I saw the finished film. Now, it breaks my heart even to think about the tenderness of Rob's performance in this and other scenes," the director noted. Martin Scorsese concluded his statement by expressing his desire to meet with the late actor again to “enjoy his natural talent once more and feel fortunate again to have had him as a friend.”