Rob Reiner and his “spoiled” son Nick openly argued on the set of their 2016 film, “Being Charlie.”
Stunt performer Erik Audé reflected on the “tension” between the late actor and his youngest son in an interview with Page Six Monday — just hours after Nick was arrested in connection to the stabbing deaths of his parents.
Audé recalls arriving on set for the movie, which was co-written by Nick and directed by Rob, only to find the father-son duo having an argument in front of the cast and crew.
“They’re just going off on each other. You could tell [Nick] was spoiled and Rob was just sick of his s–t,” Audé says.
Audé recalls the “tension” in the room during their on-set quarrel.
“I just assumed, whether this is correct or not, this kid must be pushing all his buttons. Rob can’t do anything right,” Audé says, adding, “He’s a nepo-baby, a spoiled kid to the tee.”
The stunt performer says that it was clear to him that Rob loved Nick very much, despite his issues.
“Obviously he loved his son because he’s doing this movie for his son, and still, his son was unappreciative,” he says.
Even before Nick’s arrest, Audé says that he had a gut-feeling Nick was behind Rob’s death.
“I picked up on all that hostility from just one day on set,” Audé says. “That’s how weird and awkward that exchange was.”
Audé notes that Rob and Nick eventually made up after the fiery exchange, sealing things with a “kiss on the lips.”
“Families fight, but they do it in the privacy of their own home. People have a way of filtering themselves around other people. They didn’t,” Audé said.
The stunt performer notes that his scene was ultimately cut from the film, but that Rob was always “kind” to him.
The semi-autobiographical film chronicling a young man’s drug addiction struggles was was based on Nick’s own addiction issues.
While Nick claimed in a 2016 interview with AOL that working on the movie brought him “closer” to his dad, a separate source on the production tells Page Six that it actually pulled them further apart.
“Making the movie was meant to be a healing process for them both, but from what I heard, it did the opposite, and didn’t help their relationship at all,” the production source tells us, adding, “Working together on that project made their relationship worse, it seemed to increase the tension between them.”
In a video posted to his Instagram Monday, Audé revealed how he landed the stunt performer role in the first place — sharing that Rob hired him for the gig after they met in a hotel elevator in Salt Lake City in 2015.
“He was staying across the hall from me and he was scouting for a movie called ‘Being Charlie,’ and we kept passing each other in the hallway,” Audé said, noting that they kept running into each other.
“Finally, when I was getting off the elevator, he was getting on and I said ‘Hey, do you got any stunts in your movie?’… He stopped the elevator and got my information right then and there.’”
He shared that he and Rob “completely disagreed politically,” with Reiner being an outspoken critic of President Trump.
“But I respected him as a director, I respected him as an actor, I grew up enjoying his movies … The guy was very talented,” he said.
“And even though we disagreed on things in the political spectrum, no one deserves to die like that. Thank you Rob for casting me in your movie — it was a wonderful core memory for me,” he said.
Rob and Michele were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. He was 78 and she was 68.
Page Six confirmed Monday that Nick was arrested on murder charges. He is currently being held without bail and is reportedly on suicide watch.
Nick — who has struggled with homelessness amid is addiction battle — has been in and out of rehab since the age of 15.
The “Princess Bride” director and Michele reportedly got into a heated argument with Nick while attending Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party on Saturday — just one day before Rob and Michele were discovered with their throats slit.
Rob and Michele shared two other kids: Jake, 34, and Romy, 28. The “All in the Family” alum also adopted daughter Tracy, 61, during his first marriage to the late Penny Marshall.
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