Christopher Reeve's Son Will Reveals the Dinner Table Rule His Family Implemented After His Dad's Accident

Tommy McArdle

16 September 2024 at 10:50 am·3-min read

"Whether it was good news, bad news, scary news, dinner was family time," Will Reeve recalls

<p>Michael Loccisano/Getty; Barry King/WireImage</p> Will Reeve and Christopher Reeve — Michael Loccisano/Getty; Barry King/WireImage
Will Reeve and Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve's children are remembering how their family would spend dinner time together.

On Monday, Sept. 16, Will Reeve appeared with his siblings Matthew and Alexandra on Good Morning America to promote the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.

The siblings recalled their parents' efforts to keep life at home as normal as possible after Christopher returned from the hospital following a 1995 injury that left him paralyzed.

Will, who now works as an ABC News reporter, said family dinners remained important, though they were not allowed to discuss their father's injuries.

"Whether it was good news, bad news, scary news, dinner was family time. 'How was school?' They sat at the head next to each other," Will, 32, said. "My mom would feed him and herself. We had friends dropping by. It was a very happy, robust, loud — everything you would want from a family dinner."

"That was every night, and the one thing you weren't allowed to talk about was specific medical stuff. It could be anything else," he added.

<p>John Salangsang/Variety/Getty</p> Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve at the Variety Sundance Studio on January 20, 2024. — John Salangsang/Variety/Getty
Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve at the Variety Sundance Studio on January 20, 2024.

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Christopher, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s for playing Superman on the big screen, died in 2004 at age 52. Will's mother, Dana Reeve, was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in March 2006 at 44, just 17 months after Christopher's death. (Christopher shared his older two children with ex-partner Gae Exton.)

"As far as I remember my first words were just, you know, 'I love you. We're here.'"

Christopher Reeve's children speak to @DianeSawyer and share memories of their father before and after his accident, including rarely seen home video from their new documentary, "Super/Man." pic.twitter.com/BNfIHHY4LA
— Good Morning America (@GMA) September 16, 2024

While recalling life with his family prior to his parents' deaths, Will said on Good Morning America that his mother would frequently sing while spending time around the house.

<p>Clayton Chase/IndieWire/Getty</p> Matt Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve on Jan. 20, 2024 — Clayton Chase/IndieWire/Getty
Matt Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve on Jan. 20, 2024

"Always. While she's making me my after-school snack, while she's taking me up to bed, she's always singing," he said. "And I, being 10, 11 years old, would be like, 'Mom, stop, so annoying, I'm trying to watch the show. Why are you always singing? My friends' moms don't sing all the time,' just being 11, right? And she would be like, 'Oh, okay, sorry,' or she would ratchet up the volume to needle me."

"Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish that I had asked her to sing more, because when I think about her, that's where I go," he added. "The moments where just— the quiet moments of safety and happiness and normalcy and togetherness. We didn't have to be in the same room, but I knew where she was. I miss that."

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is in select theaters Sept. 21 and Sept. 25.

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