Oh, damn. I didn't know this:
In December 1999, Reeves' girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to a stillborn daughter who was named Ava Archer Syme-Reeves. In April 2001, Syme was killed in a car accident. She was buried next to their daughter in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Reeves was a pallbearer at Syme's funeral.
This is cool, though:
[Reeves] took a significant amount of the profits from his Matrix series and treated the 12 stuntmen who worked on the films to Harley Davidson motorcycles, among other things.
My favorite Shakespeare prof saw a few plays in TO with Mr Reeves, and said he was a delight to watch plays with, because he always had new and interesting insights.
the character from the first series of Slings and Arrows was loosely based on Keanu?
Yep - Mark McKinney has admitted that Jack is based on Keanu's time in Winnipeg playing Hamlet.
Oh, dear, juliana, that's horribly sad.
Yep - Mark McKinney has admitted that Jack is based on Keanu's time in Winnipeg playing Hamlet.
I remember reading a review of that production, written by Connie Champagne and Cintra Wilson, who traveled up from San Francisco just to sit in the back row and mock Keanu, and who found that he was in fact a perfectly credible Hamlet. Not an immortal and miraculous Hamlet for the ages, but perfectly solid and presentable and unembarrassing. Their disappointment at his unexpected competency was crushing.
I had heard about the ex dying but I didn't know about the baby. Awful.
But there's my Keanu problem, see, and Tilda Swinton being so awesome, and the whole faux-epic feel of the Good-v-Evil thing and...yeah. Sometimes I am just that easy.
Me too! I quite enjoyed Constantine.
Wasn't he dating Savannah (of porn fame) when she killed herself?
edit: umm no, that was Pauly Shore.
Not an immortal and miraculous Hamlet for the ages, but perfectly solid and presentable and unembarrassing. Their disappointment at his unexpected competency was crushing.
From the reviews of that play, and from the adeptness he's shown at other comic roles, I'd love to see him attack Dogberry or Bottom or some other comedic low character. Something where the whole play's not riding on him and he can be completely uninhibited and gleeful. I think that's when he works best.
Hi, my name is juliana, and I have a Keanu problem.
No, he's cute. He's just not a Thespian.
Reeves started living out of hotels -- literally, from a bag -- for a long period after that from what I recall. It's a world of sad.
Personally, I think he can act. Really. He's a very specific type of actor, but give him the right role and he's great it. Example - the first Matrix.
He's just not a Thespian.
See, I'm blind to this because, for whatever reason, I find him too damn compelling to objectively judge his acting skills.
It's a good thing juliana and I have found each other.
