Ridley Scott got "very close" to his brother Tony Scott before his death.
The 76-year-old filmmaker’s sibling died at the age of 68 in August 2012 when he committed suicide, leaving Ridley devastated.
However, the ‘Alien’ director is grateful that he had spent a lot of time with Tony before the tragedy occurred due to the ‘Top Gun’ creator’s lengthy battle with brain cancer – something the family kept secret.
Speaking about his brother’s "inexplicable" death publicly for the first time, Ridley told Variety: "Tony had been very unwell, actually, and that’s the moment I realised I had to get very close to him again, though we were always close."
Ridley – whose older brother Frank died from skin cancer in 1980 at the age of 45 – misses Tony everyday but has so many fond memories of him, including their impromptu drinking sessions when he was being treated for his cancer.
He said: "I miss a friend. I’d go to him even when he was doing his recovery, and I’d say, ‘F**k the chemo, have a Vodka Martini,’ and he and I would go out."
Ridley ends his new film ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ – which is out in December – with a dedication to his younger brother Tony.
Ridley Scott misses brother Tony
