Corey Feldman is feeling a bit bummed after not being invited to be a part of Rob Reiner's Oscars tribute. Former colleagues gathered together at the Academy Awards to remember the late director.
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Feldman starred in Reiner's film Stand By Me with Jerry O'Connell and Will Wheaton, both of whom attended the event. He said it felt "a little bit like a family reunion I wasn't invited to."
"We're not going to use this time to go into my feeling about that," Feldman said, via Entertainment Weekly. "Instead, I just want to say that I'm with the rest of us. We're all very destroyed that things went down the way they did, losing Rob when we all thought he'd be joining us at some point for this tour and it's a tragedy."
Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, is accused of killing Reiner and his wife, Michele, last December. He's currently facing two counts of first-degree murder. Feldman caused the loss of Reiner a huge tragedy. He praised Wheaton and O'Connell for honoring the director.
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"I think Jerry and Wil did what had to be done," Feldman said. "It was a fleeting moment, so I don't feel like I missed much at all."
However, he found the tribute itself to be quite lacking.
"I personally was probably maybe a little bothered by the fact that nobody got to speak or do or say anything from their own heart," he added. "Although they did a wonderful job, I would've liked to have heard from Wil and Jerry and a few other people up there."
Reiner's longtime collaborator, Billy Crystal, spoke at the event with the other actors standing on stage.
"My friends, Rob's movies will last for lifetimes, because they were about what makes us laugh and cry, and what we aspire to be far better in his eyes: far kinder, far funnier, and far more human," Crystal said at the time. "To the millions who have enjoyed his films all these years, I want you to know, here and around the world, how many times Rob told me that it meant everything to him, that his work meant something to you — and for us who had the privilege of working with and knowing him and loving him."
