New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- British comedian and Monty Python member Eric Idle has said he spoke with filmmaker Rob Reiner just hours before Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead at their Brentwood home in Los Angeles, in what authorities are investigating as an apparent homicide. Reiner was 78. Michele Reiner was 68.

Idle shared the information in a post on X early Monday, recalling a long conversation with Reiner late Sunday night. According to Idle, the two spoke for over an hour, discussing filmmaking and Reiner's recent work on Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.

"Rob Reiner was a lovely man. I spoke to him last night for over an hour," Idle wrote. "He was telling me about filming at Stonehenge and his thoughts for the future. This i...