The Wolf of Wall Street inspiration Jordan Belfort honors Rob Reiner by sharing his touching tribute to Belfort's father.

The real-life inspiration for The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, revealed that the late Rob Reiner sent him a video message following the death of his father, Max Belfort, in 2019."Rob Reiner sent this to my father on his death bed. Truly a class act. RIP," Jordan, 63 — whose life story was adapted into the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street — shared on Instagram on Monday, December 15.In the recording, Reiner addressed Max and introduced himself, mentioning that he had "played [him] in the movie.""It was a privilege," Reiner said warmly. "I got to know your son. I know he’s with you now and everyone that you love is with you now and I just want to say hi. You gave me a great thrill to be able to play you in the film."Rob Reiner's Best Roles: From 'New Girl' to 'The Wolf of Wall Street'Reiner portrayed Max in The Wolf of Wall Street alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred as Jordan. The movie, directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, follows Jordan's rise as a stockbroker in New York City and his firm's descent into corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which led to his eventual downfall.Reiner previously spoke about how much he enjoyed working on The Wolf of Wall Street with Scorsese, 83, because he "has a way of setting a tone on the set that allows everybody to feel comfortable and have fun.""He gets the best out of people," Reiner explained in a 2013 interview with HuffPost. "You know, you have a script, but then he lets you improvise and he knows that if you can improvise, you’re going to hit on something that’s going to be a little bit more alive than anything that could be written in the script. And since his films are really so character driven — the characters are the story, you know? — he doesn’t heavily plot movies. They’re kind of character pieces and the characters, like I say, become the stories. So he knows, if that is going to be the case, that he’s got to make it so that the actors can squeeze the most out of their characters.”On Sunday, December 14, Rob and his wife, Michele Reiner, were found deceased inside their Los Angeles residence. The filmmaker was 78 years old, and his wife was 68.“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,” a family representative told Variety. “We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.”Actor Who Starred In Nick Reiner's Semi-Autobiographical Movie Speaks OutThe Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Us that Rob and Michele died “from apparent stab wounds.” One day after the couple’s deaths, Us reported that Rob and Michele’s son Nick Reiner was arrested on a murder charge. (Rob and Michele also shared kids Jake, 34, and Romy, 28, in addition to Rob’s daughter Tracy, 61, with ex Penny Marshall.)The Reiner family was open about Nick, 32, struggling with addiction and the strain it put on the family. Nick began struggling with substance abuse as a teenager, which led to a stint in rehab when he was 15. After several relapses and treatment stays, Nick started living on the street — which he said ultimately helped him get clean.“That made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff,” Nick explained to People in a 2016 interview. “I met crazy great people there, so out of my element. Now, I’ve been home for a really long time, and I’ve sort of gotten acclimated back to being in L.A. and being around my family. When I was out there, I could’ve died. It’s all luck. There were a lot of dark years there.”Nick’s experiences were the inspiration for Rob’s 2015 film Being Charlie, which told the story of an addict son (Nick Robinson) of a California politician (Cary Elwes) who begins a relationship with a rehab patient (Morgan Saylor).“If your kid is going through rough times, [as] the parent, your main job is to keep your child safe. So I would do anything,” Rob shared during a Build Series interview in 2015. “At the end of the day, I know my child better than an expert does and I probably should have trusted my own instinct and that’s one of the things I did learn about the whole experience.”