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Close has worked with both actors. She starred with Williams in the 1982 film The World According to Garp and also had a cameo as a male pirate in Steven Spielberg's 1991 cult movie Hook, in which he played Peter Pan. Reeve directed Close in the 1997 TV movie In the Gloaming.
"My first connection to Christopher Reeve was through Robin Williams, when we were shooting The World According to Garp," Close said. "On Friday evenings, Chris would literally swoop in, piloting his own plane, scoop Robin up, and away they would fly for the weekend. On Sunday, late afternoon, Chris would swoop back in and deliver Robin back—I have to say a little worse for wear."
"Those were the heady days for them both," she said. "They were on top of the world. They were living the kind of fast and crazy life that our business can hand to you if you become a wildly famous phenomenon, practically overnight."
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