Two weeks after the death of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his photographer wife Michele, friends and colleagues continue to pay tribute to the couple. On Instagram, Carrie Elwes, who starred in Reiner's 1987 classic The Princess Bride, said she was only now feeling able to post about her loss. "It's been long enough that I can finally put my grief into words," Elwes wrote, saying she fell "in love" with Reiner when they first met at 24. "The more time we spent together, I knew this was the person I wanted in my life. I also knew that by casting me... he had given me the keys to the castle."

The actress posted behind-the-scenes footage from the film, adding that she couldn't remember "a day without laughter."

"The movie is about love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Things that Rob held dear. One of many reasons he was the perfect person to make this movie. "And if I could laugh in return, I felt lucky. His laugh was one of the biggest sounds I've ever heard - so genuine, it still rings in my ears. "He was a person who felt deeply," Elwes wrote. "His heart was full of love and compassion. He didn't care how much money you had or what kind of privileged upbringing you had. He just wanted to know if you were "a good boy."

Reyner's son, Nik, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after his parents' bodies were discovered on December 14 at their home in Los Angeles. He is being held in custody at the Los Angeles County Jail. Elwes also paid tribute to Reiner's wife, saying: "To say they were a great team is an understatement... My heart still hurts every time I think of you, knowing that the grief of losing you will likely never fade away."

She ended with a quote from The Princess Bride: "Of course, death cannot stop true love, but life is a bitch without you."

In an essay published in the New York Times, Martin Scorsese also paid tribute to Reiner, whom he first met in the 1970s. "That's when I started enjoying spending time with Rob. We had a natural affinity for each other. He was funny and sometimes hilariously sarcastic, but he wasn't the type to dominate a room. He had a beautiful, unbridled sense of freedom, fully enjoying the moment of life, and he had a great laugh."

Reiner had a supporting role in Scorsese's 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, in which he played Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jordan Belfort's father. "He could improvise with the best of them," Scorsese wrote, "he was a master of comedy, he worked beautifully with Leo and the rest of the guys, and he understood the human condition of his character: a man who loved his son, was proud of his son's success, but knew he was destined to fall."

This week, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge agreed to block the release of autopsy reports for Reiner and Michele, at the request of the LAPD. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office issued a court order last week that put a security hold on the cases to restrict the "public release of any investigative information, notes, reports, or photographs" related to the investigation. The medical examiner's office previously confirmed their deaths as murder, listing the cause as "multiple blunt force injuries" in their public database. After the murder of the Reiners, President Donald Trump posted that Rob Reiner's death was "caused by the rage of others" because he was "clearly anti-Trump."

Trump called Reiner "tormented and disturbed" and his death "the result of a massive, irreversible, and incurable disease" known as "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

"He was known to have gone crazy over his obvious paranoia about President Donald J. Trump, his obvious paranoia reached new heights as the Trump administration has exceeded all goals and expectations, and America is in its golden age, perhaps more than ever before."

President's comments drew widespread criticism, with Joe Rogan adding his voice to the critics last week. Speaking with comedian Shane Gilliard, the popular podcaster said of Trump: "If you say it to someone's face, that's one thing, which is also crazy, but it's really heartbreaking."

Rogan, who supported Trump in 2024 but has recently expressed concerns about his policies, compared Trump's apparent lack of empathy to "people celebrating when Charlie Kirk was shot."

"Imagine if Obama tweeted something like that when someone died this way. That person was a crazy person who hated Obama," Rogan continued. "It just shows how crazy he is about how he thinks and talks."