It’s a fowl, it’s a aircraft… it’s Christopher Reeve’s son.
And the ABC Information correspondent has a touching story to share.
Will Reeve, 32, who’s planning his upcoming nuptials to fiancé Amanda Dubin, has a particular strategy to honor his late father on the large day.
“I’ll be wearing his cufflinks,” he revealed to Individuals.
The “Superman” star was paralyzed in a horse driving accident in 1995, and died in 2004 from problems of that damage. His spouse, Dana Reeve, died shortly after in 2006 after being identified with lung most cancers.
“We’re in the middle of planning,” Will teased about his wedding ceremony with out making a gift of any particulars. “Amanda has become like a full-time wedding planner.”
And seems, it’s a much-suited job for the 28-year-old, to whom Reeve proposed final November.
Amanda works along with her mother, Victoria Dubin, the founding father of Victoria Dubin Occasions, to plan numerous celebrations for {couples}.
May even not too long ago honored his dad within the tv particular “Will Reeve: Finding My Father.” The journalist retraced the very same path Christopher took via Alaska and Mexico whereas filming a nature documentary shortly earlier than he was paralyzed in 1995.
“I had always dreamed that he and I would go there together, or that I would go and come back and be able to tell him all about it,” Will advised Individuals. “Of course, that ended up not being possible. So I made it my mission as a journalist to make a documentary that picked up where my dad left off.”
In a heartfelt essay, per ABC, Will mirrored on his dad’s profession and legacy.
“The world knows my dad as Superman, and as the face of spinal cord injury — a heroic figure fighting for others and for himself. Many have also learned more about him and our family in a recent award-winning theatrical documentary, ‘Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story.’ But there’s still more to the story, still more to the man,” expressed the anchor.
As for why this challenge was so significant to him?
Will defined, “For decades, I have dreamed of visiting those last locations he filmed before his accident.”
“I’ve wanted to make a pilgrimage to the remote lagoon in Mexico and the tiny Alaskan island near Siberia, where my dad: made tortillas with a local fishing family, sailed in a traditional walrus skin boat, reached out and touched a gray whale, and documented all of it for a project that has become for me a totemic depiction of who my father truly was as a human being.”
