By Mark Gray
1:30pm PST, Nov 7, 2023
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Like father, like son. Will Reeve knows he bears a striking resemblance to his late father, Christopher Reeve, and he's not ashamed to be the mini-me of the "Superman" legend.
At the "An Eve with Reeve" benefit for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation on Nov. 3, Will, 31, opened up about the comparisons.
"I'm very fortunate to have the life that I do," he told People magazine. "And I think that if the public might find a little interest in, 'Oh, he looks like his famous dad,' that's great. That means they're talking about my family in a positive light and remembering our dad and our mom and our family in a way that honors them."
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While "Superman" was "faster than a speeding bullet" and "more powerful than a locomotive," Will Reeve tells People magazine that his own superpower is his "ability to connect with people."
"I love people, I love as it relates to the Reeve Foundation and the community that we are so focused on building. Nothing makes me happier or prouder than when people who might not otherwise have known each other, or have known about us or our cause, come together and leave with something meaningful," he said.
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In 1995, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed in an equestrian accident. The "Superman" icon passed way nearly a decade later in 2004. Two years later, his wife, Dana Reeve, died from lung cancer despite the fact that she never smoked.
"Knowing that my dad and my mom together as a couple inspired millions of people is so touching to me, because I saw them, first and foremost, as mom and dad," their son, Will Reeve, told E! News in November 2016. "They just did what they had to do as parents, as husband and wife and as citizens of the world. It just so happened that because they were such incredible people, the work that they did and the life that they lived in a public-facing way touched others."
Will was 11 years old when his father (seen here in 1980) passed away. (He was just two years old at the time of the equestrian accident.)
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In 2021, Will Reeve wrote a touching tribute to his father that he later shared with "Good Morning America."
"I'm 29 now and have finally started to understand what honoring my dad actually means," he wrote at the time. "I thought it meant following the roads he would want me to go down, or to live my life as his proxy, making up for lost time according to his thwarted dreams. Turns out, our parents want us to find out who we are and go be that. That is the ultimate form of honor."
