Keanu Reeves is one of the most famous actors in the world, but his private style is very different from many stars, and even has the title of "Sad Keanu". In fact, his melancholic image has a lot to do with his fate when he was young, which also gives people unlimited sympathy for this actor.
Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 2, 1964. In 1980, at the age of 16, he entered the show business with a Coca-Cola commercial, and then he got his first role in the stage play "Wolf Boy" .
In 1987, Keanu Reeves attracted attention in the American market with "River's Edge". Two years later, the highly happy character in "Abi Adi's Adventure" became an American campus teen idol. In 1994, he reached the peak of his career. The box office of his starring "Speed of Life" reached 121 million U.S. dollars.
At the turn of the century, Keanu Reeves became popular all over the world with the movie "The Matrix" series, and he became a leading Hollywood movie star. After
, Keanu Reeves did not take advantage of the heat to take on some high-paying blockbusters, but was keen to take on some low-cost small films. In addition to acting, he is passionate about motorcycles and music, and played as a bass player in the "Sirius" band. Although
earns millions of dollars, he lives in an ordinary suite; he donates 70% of his income from filming "The Matrix" to the hospital for treating leukemia. He has no bodyguards by his side and no big names. On his 47th birthday, he was sitting on the side of the road in ragged clothes and eating his own cake. There was a birthday candle on the cake. When fans came to chat, he shared the cake with them.
In Hollywood, Keanu Reeves is an outlier and has always been a maverick. For almost 20 years after he became famous, he lived like a prodigal, lived in a motel for 9 years and wore a pair of very torn boots. If necessary, he can be a sexy and handsome aristocratic prince, but when he turns around, he will appear on the street in a sloppy image.
Keanu is also very generous. In order to thank the 12 actors who served as his stand-ins in the "The Matrix" series, he bought a rather expensive Harley motorcycle as a gift to them. At the same time, Keanu Reeves is a model of a good man, but quite mysterious. His rough life experience is always embarrassing. Although
is an international superstar, Keanu Reeves is very low-key in private, and was once photographed eating with homeless people. This expression of eating a sandwich on a bench was so lonely that it spread all over the world and won the title of "Sad Keanu."
But what some people may not know is that Keanu Reeves really has a very sad past. He was born in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. His mother is British and his father is Hawaiian. His father is of Chinese, English, Portuguese, Irish and other descent.
When Keanu Reeves was a child, his father abandoned their mother and child, and was subsequently arrested for possession of large amounts of drugs. Later, she came to the United States with her mother and spent almost all her childhood life with her stepfather.
Keanu Reeves began to shoot commercials, short films, and stage plays when he was a teenager, and gradually gained popularity. In 1991, he starred in "Half of a Man Is Still a Man" and became a close friend with the starring star of the same show, Revan Phoenix.
Rui Fan is one of Keanu Reeves's few friends in the showbiz, he also won the actor of the Venice Film Festival with this film. But in 1993, the 23-year-old genius passed away due to an overdose. Keanu Reeves said with grief: “I like his company very much, very much. I also like his mind, mind, and soul. They had a good performance with each other. He is a creative thinker." The suffering did not stop. In 1999, Keanu Reeves' girlfriend Syme gave birth to a stillborn child. A year and a half later, Syme passed away in a car accident. Since then, Keanu Reeves has never had a public official relationship with anyone.
Keanu Reeves also has a pair of younger sisters who have blood cancer. Since the two have been dependent on each other since childhood, he loves this sister very much. In the early stage of his acting career, Keanu Reeves was making money to pay for his sister's medical expenses, while taking care of her illness. When he was most upset, he could only sleep on the floor of a friend's house.
After experiencing so many things, Keanu Reeves’s private life has become veryLow-key, simple, and seldom laughed, as if always enveloped in melancholy. He said that he did not run a social platform, "I am a very privacy-conscious person, and I have nothing to tweet, post, or say something to say."
has also launched "Happy" on the Internet because of his sadness. Point, Keanu Reeves" (CheerUpKeanuReeves) encouragement activities. It should be impossible for us to see Keanu Reeves smiling as he was when he was young, right...
will have a different view of the world after experiencing so many events. In fact, he is so calm, restrained, and his own Keanu Reeves, which is why he is loved by everyone!
