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Keanu Reeves: the sad life of the actor who is not even treated well by the cinema

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 Keanu Reeves: the sad life of the actor who is not even treated well by the cinema

Keanu Reeves: the sad life of the actor who is not even treated well by the cinema


There was a time when to celebrate his birthday, Keanu Reeves bought himself a coffee and a cupcake, which he took quietly and alone while walking down the street. With that he was satisfied. Despite the fact that his role as Neo in the Matrix saga - which, although he did not discover him as an actor, did consolidate his status as a film superstar - had brought him more than 100 million dollars in direct income, which distinguishes Keanu has since been avoiding as much as possible the lavish lifestyle of his Hollywood colleagues.


In other words, although he belongs to the crazy generation of Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise - with whom he has shared a fondness for sloppy clothing since his days as a half-grunge idol or spiritual drift at critical moments in his life - Keanu does not like him. it hardly gives value to money. He has his big house with a pool in the hills of Los Angeles, only missing, but nourished with an extensive library and with little evidence of parties being held there. Many times, while filming in another city, he was seen traveling by subway and donates millions of dollars to the fight against cancer. It is as if fame has been an accident in his life, something inevitable but unnecessary that he tries to cope with naturally as he redirects her towards noble causes.


This whole way of living has a lot to do with Reeves' realignment of his priorities from an early age. At the age of three, his father abandoned him and he never heard from him again. His mother led a nomadic life, from couple to couple and continually changing countries, which affected young Keanu's education and social skills. And when it seemed that all that was going to be left behind thanks to his irruption in the cinema - first as a handsome young man of the new generation, that of Patrick Swayze, with whom he shared the poster in Champion's Forge (1986) and they called him Bodhi, and more late as a fetish of great directors such as Coppola or Scorsese-, the most significant losses began to arrive.



First, that of his friend River Phoenix, another young indie film star who died in 1993 of an overdose, with whom he had co-starred in My Private Idaho under Gus van Sant, and which happened while Keanu was preparing the role that made him jump to the ultimate fame, that of Jack Traven in the Speed ​​series. Later, that of his first daughter, Ava, born prematurely in 1999, a few hours after giving birth, while filming the first installment of the Matrix series. And finally that of his girlfriend Jennifer Syme, who suffered a fatal traffic accident a few months later, when the success of the Matrix had solved their lives economically, but who could not repair in any way the emotional damage of the loss of life. daughter in common. Keanu has never agreed to talk about it in his interviews, but it is assumed that this double loss transformed him into an introspective, cautious man with an incurable inner wound.


Added to all this is the case of her younger sister, Kim, also an actress, diagnosed with leukemia in 2002, and in whose attempt to cure Keanu has been deeply involved, donating millions of dollars of her earnings in the Matrix trilogy to hospitals. and research programs in the fight against cancer. After 10 years, Kim was apparently cured of the disease, but she relapsed even more aggressively: since 2016 she has been admitted to private clinics in Europe - first in Switzerland, currently in Italy - where Keanu visits her frequently. . The last meeting came before the turn of the year, with the insistent rumor in the background that Kim had gotten worse. Keanu appeared in Rome with his peculiar look of a chic hobo, with the threadbare jeans, long beard and extravagant accessories that have been a keynote of his look since he led his short-lived rock band, Dogstar, dismantled in 2002, at which time He swapped guitars for his obsession with sports bikes.


The end of the Matrix saga came in 2003, but that didn't mean a professional leap forward in Keanu Reeves' career. Between 2004 and 2014 he only participated in 12 films and none of them caused a special impact, which led many to intuit that his professional decline was linked to the personal decline unleashed after the terrible events of the early decade.


Interestingly, Reeves' acting rebirth came shortly after Kim's first cure, when he starred in and produced John Wick (2014), a low-budget action movie that slowly and steadily became a highly profitable cult phenomenon. After Speed ​​and the Matrix, Reeves had found a new successful franchise: the second part of the adventures of the most ruthless professional assassin of all time, John Wick: Chapter 2, arrived in 2017, doubling the income of the first - going from 88 at 176 million dollars-, and there will be a third installment in May of this year.


After the John Wick bombing, Reeves has made more films in four years than in the previous decade, including two pending releases in Spain: a romantic comedy with another reborn from the 90s indie cinema also fallen from grace, Winona Ryder (Destination Wedding) and a science thriller titled Replicas. Critics do not always dispense with benevolence, but the box office once again responds in his favor.


And here is the paradox of the Keanu Reeves case, who to this day is still single and did not have any more children: the better the cinema treats him, the harder his personal life becomes. Maybe too much for someone who is known as the most Zen man in Hollywood.

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