Oh God guys! Let me explain! 🙄 ...First of all--that is NOT his girlfriend! 😂 She is his PUBLICIST! Sheesh! 😛 That was after the premiere of Reloaded in France! Everyone went celebrating and Keanu got pi$$ed drunk! 😛 He got pix of him taken throwing up on the balcony! 😘 She was giving him pain killers for his hang over! Relax ladies!...I wasn't bashing--Iwas doing what it said there!....Merely testing, because I'm passing all my Keanu pix off my computer to a CD, because I have too many! 😉 😄
Let's see if this one relieves the pain!
Enjoy the pic and the interview! 😉 🙂
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Keanu Reloaded
Multimedia
The Straits Times ( Singapore) - December 2003
Six journalists are sitting in a hotel room in Sydney - waiting for The One. We wonder whether Keanu Reeves is going to be as elusive and elliptical with his answers as he has proven to be in the past. Like Neo, the Messianic character he plays in the Matrix trilogy, he is an enigmatic presence, even before he walks into the room.
And then the man appears, three-day stubble on his face, wearing a brown silk shirt and black jacket and pants. He is a living, walking vision in 3D, even if he says he is suffering from "transcontinental jet lag".
He has aged visibly since the first Matrix, but not in a negative way. In fact, age seems to become him, giving his once too-cute-to-be- true features a hewn elegance and his brown doe eyes a soulful, intelligent depth.
Indeed, there is a palpable centredness to him which is almost disarming. There is none of that infamous deflecting of questions, no defensive non-answers. One gets the sense that he is finally growing into his own skin, becoming more stable and wise. The awareness of time and mortality seems to hover over him. 'Will you ever do anything as physically ex- hausting as The Matrix again?" someone asks. "I don't know if you can," he replies wryly, before adding: "I don't know if I can." He continues: "I love gungfu And fake fights, so if there was a piece, I'd certainly go back and train again for it. But I'm getting up there. I might not be as agile a fighter, he says, acknowledging the march of time.
"I'm usually on the couch at parties. I'm not even standing, just sitting down and chilling out," he adds.
About turning 40 next year, he is suitably philosophical, even as he tries to make light of the thought. "If anything, it's an excuse for a party - I'm turning 40, I'm halfway there if I'm lucky, let's go dance! But it's weird growing old. I like getting older and mature and growing up. I like it a lot," he says, looking down momentarily. He has certainly done more than his fair share of growing up during the filming of the Matrix sequels The man wno once lived his entire life out of hotel rooms, has finally bought a house in the Hollywood Hills.
This signifies a laying down of roots, a nascent consent to stop running and be still, even though he is still ready to move at the drop of a hat for a worthy film project.
"I missed not being home for a year," he says of spending 270 days in Sydney to shoot Reloaded and Revolutions. "But at the same time, I got to be in an incredible city doing a job I love." He adds: "If there's a great project and they say, "We're gonna be in Sudan for 17 months", you go. When you get to do something that asks you to do those things, to be away from home or to do Take 87, it's cool that it asks more of you.
"It's not just leaving your house and going down the street. You get to see parts of the world, you learn about yourself and or other people or go on these journeys. Hopefully, I'll be able to take some more."
Up next are very different cinematic journeys for Reeves. His new film is a romantic comedy with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton called Something's Gotta Give. And characteristic of his willingness to take chances with young unproven directors, he has also done a supporting role in a small independent film, Thumbsucker, by video director Mike Mills. He has also just started shooting a supernatural drama called Constantine.
These films will, no doubt, be lapped up by fans and treated with scepticism by critics who have never quite accepted Reeves as a legitimate actor despite his brave choices and his marquee appeal.. But Reeves only wants to focus on the work. Does he ever think of his legacy? "It's certainly something I wasn't thinking about when I was 27. But some people do do that. Orson Welles seemed to have that consciousness. I think it's a beneficial thing to think about how you ultimately want to lead your life." he says.
Perhaps his legacy will be his integrity, his almost spiritual work ethic and his telling penchant for playing characters in search of truth -characters like Siddhartha in Little Buddha, Neo in the Matrix trilogy and, yes, even Ted "Theodore" Logan in the Bill And Ted series.
"Those were characters who were trying to realise the better parts of themselves," he says.
At the mention of Ted, he perks up visibly: "Ted 'Theodore' Logan had such a wonderful take on the world. To play someone who had that exuberance and love of life was really im- pactful," he says. It is certainly one of his most indelible roles, one that stereotyped him for ages as a vacantly photogenic uber-dude, a reputation that was only encouraged by critically panned turns in movies like Bram Stoker's Dracula and Much Ado About Nothing.
"It can be painful watching yourself again," he admits candidly.
"You get into shouldas and what-you-coul- das. Or maybe the editor or director made a choice you weren't happy with. You, wish that you were better in it.
"So you get a certain bit of that. But I'm also finding that as I get older, I can't do anything about it. So the way I feel about it now is kind of like an acceptance. And with that acceptance, you go, 'I wasn't so bad'."
Then, with a shrug, he sums up pithily what could be his motto, distilled to its purest essence. "What the f***. Hopefully it's still good - I tried."
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