You can tell how much he wishes river didn't end up that way, he had tears in his eyes

You can see how much he cared about him

Wil and River were amazing in the movie "Stand by Me."

I love that he admits he's an unreliable narrator.

He looks like his is gonna cry

I felt the same as Wil. He seemed to have a doomed quality to him, that's why I loved him. He seemed vulnerable and sad.

What a wonderfully artistic, articulate, and thoughtful man Will Wheaton is.

He was nearly crying omg🙁 rip riv. We'll always love you❤

The word he was looking for is: devastating. Thats what i feel about is death every day. Devastated.

It looked like he was about to cry tbh

Damn Larry interrupting and shit chill

I teared up the moment Will started talking about River.

It always scared me how spot on this movie was especially the person who died in the film died in real life

The way he describes River is just me in a nutshell. Makes me so sad. I just hope I'm remembered in a good way.

Honestly, Larry needs to shut up and let him speak. Don't put words in his mouth, let him think and let him speak from the heart. Wil was about to and then Larry would coax him with a word that he THINKS Wil might say. He does that with other guest he interviews and it drives me crazy

He would be really proud of you today, Wil.

Wil made a documentary about River. I think that's Wil's goodbye I love you to River. His anger near the end of the documentary is very telling how much Wil loved River.

For everyone put off by how King keeps interrupting and how brief this is, there are much longer, much more in-depth interviews with Wil about this. One I saw had him saying that he and River became great friends on "Stand by Me", but that after that, they drifted apart and took different paths. Wil says he spent much of his teens when he wasn't working staying home with family and playing video games and watching TV and stuff. He says River got out there "on the scene", meaning clubbing and night life and so on. Wil said he couldn't hang out with River anymore because he chose not to hang out with people (River and his other friends) who took drugs. He talked about running into River somewhere later on, and River had OBVIOUS problems. Then, he says, he heard River had died, and was still sad, but not surprised by it.

Damn. Good talent just gone R.I.P River Phoenix a.k.a Chris Chambers

Dear Larry King, Stop interrupting people. You are obnoxious.

I love Wil Wheaton, he's such a great interview, one could listen to him forever, such an interesting man.

i feel so bad how they drifted apart and how he died so young and how he didnt like fame.. it made me cryyyyy😭

River Phoenix is my angel forever!

LET HIM TALK!!! I wish he got to say more smh

I think we all had a friend from early childhood , you lose contact with as you get older and then hear bad stories about what they’ve become,,but feel to disconnected tiOtry to help

I think its extremly hard for him to talk about it

When Wil pauses blinks back tears 😢

AW,gonna cry already

This made me cry

River was a wonderful soul, he cared about things at a young age and did a lot of good the short time he was here, this is one of the examples of what he did: Yes, River was a huge environmentalist and advocate for animal rights! “I’ve just bought 800 acres of forest on the border of Panama and Costa Rica. I want to buy the last “first growth forest” and turn it into a national park. It’s a human tragedy of immense proportions. Many native Indians in that region are losing their homes daily, and it’s going to affect both you and me, because that’s where most of the world’s oxygen comes from. The Amazon rain forests are the world’s lungs and without them we will not be able to breath. It’s a very scary thought and it’s not too far off.“ River created a non-profit to acquire land in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica with the intent of saving endangered species and the rain forest. In 2004, the land was sold to a conservancy for perpetuity and the funds were used for the new River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding.

I met someone who knew the family well and they told me the mother was one of the worst stage mothers they'd ever met. It was the mother who wanted the children to be the providers for the family and famous. Not the father or the children. And river was the first casualty.

Just watched stand by me again, what a great movie.

RIP larry RIP river 🖤

They was close asf ❤❤❤

Aww

River e Hialton Forever!!!

He wasn’t shocked he was in disbelief 💔💔

I was at a Star Trek convention right after River died, Will Wheaton was the speaker and he said the same thing then.

Such Wheaton.

I wish River had done Toy Soldiers with Will

How in the world could they drift apart 🥺🥺?

Why does this feel like real life Stand By Me?

The sad thing is it isn't true river didn't wilfully or knowingly take those drugs so he didn't

Paul Newman says you never get over it

Larry didn't do a bad job here. I mean he wasn't disrespecting River.

Larry stop interrupting him smh

I was like "Larry if you diss River I will find you and I will kill you" RIP beautiful ily xxx

No sound now.

can't this guy let people finish their sentences?

for some reason, i always thought this dude was dead too...

I'm mad at Larry you never interact with Wil Wheaton especially in a moment like that

:(

RIP Larry …. It seemed like he would go on for ever …. But boy what an institution you became …

why was river in pain?

Larry king isn’t really a good interviewer. I wish he’d not try to put words in the interviewee’s mouth.

soy face.