Many have noticed that ABC News correspondent Will Reeve looks like his dad, the late Superman actor Christopher Reeve. Will takes it as a compliment. Christopher Reeve died in 2004, but he had been paralyzed since an accident in 1995. Will's mom, Dana Reeve, died in 2006 from lung cancer.
Will, now 31, was only a child when his parents died, and he is dedicated to preserving their legacy. He is a board member for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated to improving research and quality of life for those impacted by paralysis. Will recently told People that when people take an interest in him because of his resemblance to his dad, he sees it as a good thing because it means they're remembering his parents.
"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," he told the publication.
He spoke about it at "An Eve with Reeve," which was a benefit for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Will told People that he "always takes [it] as a compliment" when people say he looks like his dad.
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"I think that I had two beautiful parents, inside and out, and if I bear any resemblance to them physically, or temperamentally, or in my values, then I take that as a compliment every day," he told People.
It is certainly not the first time that Will has spoken highly of his parents. In 2019, he spoke to People at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's "A Magical Evening" Gala.
“I think his legacy is never going to go away and think that is a responsibility that I feel, to carry his and my mother’s legacy on for the rest of my life and hopefully beyond that,” he told the publication.
“I think that the people who have the most lasting impact on culture are people who made a real difference in the world beyond whatever it is that they were initially known for, and I think that my dad is certainly one of those people … he had an impact on the world well beyond his fleeting fame for being in movies," Will continued.
At that time, he said that he thought his parents would be proud of his involvement with their foundation, and being involved is also a way for him to feel connected to them. He thinks his parents would also be proud that "we also dedicate a lot of time and energy to our own lives, and to our own jobs and to our families and to our friends." He said that his parents wanted him and his siblings to "be [their own people]."
In 2016, Will spoke to E! News prior to the New York City Marathon, which he ran to support his parents' foundation. "My parents' legacy is hugely important to me because they meant so much to the world on the whole, but they also meant so much to me personally and to my family. We don't want anything they did or what they stood for to fade off because their work was important," he said at the time.
He was so touched by the impact his parents had on so many people because to him, they were primarily his parents. "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," he told E! News at the time.
