Christopher Reeve's Son Will Talks About Following in His Footsteps in Doc

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Christopher Reeve's son, Will, has a new doc dropping -- where he travels to all the places his dad visited around the globe ... and the journey's made him feel closer to his father.

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00:00I

00:02Read really briefly that you were gonna recreate a really important moment in your dad's life or life-changing moment

00:08Can you tell us about that? I have on Wednesday, February 26th on ABC

00:12I have a documentary coming out that I've been working on for a few years. No way

00:17it's

00:19Essentially, I don't know what I don't want to call it a sequel, but it's a reimagining of a documentary

00:24My dad did 30 years ago. It's the last thing he ever filmed before his accident

00:28Months before he went to this tiny island in Alaska and this remote lagoon in Mexico following gray whales

00:36And I wanted to go see what he had seen and be where he had been

00:40To learn a little bit more about a version of my dad that I didn't really get to know because he got injured

00:45I'm so young so I found the sons of the men who took him around in those places and had them as my guides

00:51No, it's called Will Reeve finding my father very excited about it

00:56Well, of course it was important but why specifically like what made you like, you know say hey

01:01I want to take those those same steps like walk those same paths

01:05Because my dad was injured when I was so young

01:08I didn't really get to experience the world with him the way that he had really wanted us to he was a man of action

01:14And adventure and I didn't really get that experience with him

01:18So I wanted to go to the places he had been

01:22Doing those adventurous things to see if I could connect to that version of him in a better way. Was it emotional?

01:28It was it was emotional. It was challenging. It was joyful. It was revelatory and

01:33It got me a lot of sky miles, too

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