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'What Dreams May Come': What Robin Williams' Most Spiritual Project Said About The Afterlife

Robin Williams left behind an impressive body of work that showcased his incredible range when he tragically took his own life Monday morning at his Bay Area home – including a picture that explored the afterlife called What Dreams May Come.

Robin Williams In 'What Dreams May Come'

In What Dreams May Come, Williams plays a man whose two children predecease him. Four years after their death, he too dies in a car wreck. Upon his death, he wakes up in an afterlife riddled with wildflowers and his late dog Katie.

“Boy, I screwed up. I’m in dog heaven,” Williams’ character Chris says, adding, later “A place where we all go can’t be bad, can it girl? Maybe I’m not in your heaven after all, girl. Maybe you're in mine.”

In 2013, leading up to the premiere of The Crazy Ones, Williams hosted a Reddit AMA. One internet interviewer asked Williams about the deeply spiritual role and what he gleaned from the experience of filming the heartrending movie.

After revealing he learned about how precious life and the relationships one builds with others within that life are, Williams went on to admit that making the film was a difficult process for him. “That was one of the hardest movies I think I ever did in my whole career,” the actor said in the AMA. “Every day was literally hell, because of the nature of the subject matter, dealing with death and being in hell literally.”

While Williams was proud of the movie and impressed with how beautifully the story was rendered on screen, he’d hoped for an alternate ending. Instead of choosing to reincarnate, he wishes that he and his late wife had to reincarnate – a reincarnation imperative that would make their second lives new ones entirely.

“When I watched the final movie, I felt it was extraordinarily beautiful but I felt disappointed by the ending,” Williams said. “There was a different ending that they shot that I felt was much more true to the story. It was about reincarnation, basically, that they were going to meet again. The movie ended with two babies being born simultaneously, one in Bombay and one in the United States, and they held them up, and then the screen went to black.”

H/t: HuffPost

Chelsea Regan

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