9 Main Reasons Everyone Loves Keanu Reeves (In fact, there are 1,000)

But how does it get to be so awesome? Keanu Reeves gives up his seat on the subway, does charity work, gives motorcycles and money to his colleagues, comes to the aid of people in difficulty and on top of everything, he has the reputation of being the most nice and most modest among all celebrities. It would seem that we cannot admire Keanu more than we have already loved him for years. And yet... This modern-day hero has managed to reach an additional level in popularity: Hollywood adores him, we quote him, we admire him, he is the subject of memes. What else ? A petition was even launched by his fans to make Keanu as the personality of the year 2019.

Bright Side is going to list the reasons why the whole world loves Keanu Reeves so much.

1. Keanu thinks everyone on earth is amazing

In June 2019, Keanu Reeves unexpectedly appeared during the presentation of the video game Cyberpunk 2077 (he plays the role of rocker Johnny Silverhand there). During his introductory speech, one of the spectators shouted into the audience: “You are amazing!” Within an instant, Keanu Reeves shouted in response: “You are the one who is amazing! You are all amazing!” The video of this moment went viral on the Internet, and Internet users widely shared it, once again proclaiming their love to the actor.

2. “Keanu does things”

On the @keanuthings Twitter account, 245,000 followers follow their idol's every move and have fun dissecting how "Keanu does things": he fights with a teddy bear, lends his voice to characters from cartoons, reads books while walking, wears a hat, stares at a goat or rides a motorcycle. The latest story to go viral on the internet shows him signing an autograph. The actor was on his way to the set of the movie Bill and Ted - 3 when he saw a sign "You are amazing!" - a reference to the previous point - on one of the lawns. He then got out of the car, went to see the young woman who was carrying the sign and wrote on it: “Stacy! You are amazing!” - and he affixed his signature.

3. Keanu respects the privacy of others

Not so long ago, netizens drew worldwide attention to how the actor behaves with his female admirers. If he is photographed with a girl, he never touches her, even if he embraces her as best as possible. Many find this behavior polite and touchy, as Keanu knows better than anyone how difficult it is to respect everyone's personal spaces. He always behaves friendly, is patient, even with very intrusive and demanding fans.

4. Keanu doesn't have a big head

You'd think his superstar status would allow the actor to behave absolutely the way he wanted — after all, the public would forgive him for all his quirks. But far from it, on the contrary: he considers himself an ordinary person and acts accordingly.

In 2014, Keanu attended the wrap party for The Daughter of God, in which he played one of the lead roles. The event was held at the Leonora club in Chelsea. The guy at the entrance in charge of club security didn't recognize him, but he didn't think it necessary to say who he was. So he had lined up in the rain with the other guests, waiting his turn despite the rain.

Keanu Reeves does not post messages on social networks: he says he has nothing against it, but that he has “nothing to tweet”. He wasn't even aware of his immense internet popularity, and when a reporter asked him if he did, he looked embarrassed, and said it was "madness". But he then added that “the positive is always good”.

5. He leads an ordinary life and appreciates the simple things

The fortune of the actor is estimated at 360 million dollars, but he leads a modest life. He prefers discreet clothes of ordinary brands, likes old worn shoes, rides his motorcycle every day in the mountains or to the sea - to admire the sunset. He explains that the sensation of driving, the wind, the smells and the contact with the machine allow him to “lose himself in the present”.

For Keanu, true happiness is being next to his family and loved ones. Even his 50th birthday he celebrated quietly and modestly — at home with his sister Kim.

6. The twists of fate made him wiser but not cynical

Keanu Reeves had a difficult childhood and a complicated relationship with his father. He lost a friend, his fiancée died, the baby she was carrying too. This obviously had heavy consequences on his private and professional life, but it did not make him mean or cynical. And even if he sometimes tends to worry about the passage of time, he considers himself today as a happy person. When TV show host Stephen Colbert asked Keanu Reeves, "What do you think happens to us when we die?", the actor simply replied, "I know those who serve us miss us. love”.

7. Keanu memes are the funniest

In the comedy Always be my maybe, Keanu Reeves plays himself. In one of the scenes, he makes such a spectacular entrance into a restaurant that Internet users have started to reproduce this moment by adding different music to it and have even created a Twitter account on which they publish their versions of the actor's famous entrance. . In just a few months, the account has already registered almost 47,000 subscribers.

But the champion of all categories of memes remains that of “Keanu sad”, one of the most famous on the network for 9 years. In this photo from 2010, he is sitting alone on a bench eating a sandwich wrapped in a bag. He looks so lonely and unhappy that internet users couldn't resist laughing at him. Good player, he admitted finding it funny too. Fans of the actor felt inspired and declared June 15 “Unofficial Keanu Reeves Cheer Day”.

Another meme that has been a big hit on social media is that of “Keanu Immortal”: the author noticed the similarity of the American actor with other individuals through the ages, including the 19th century French comedian Paul Mounet and Renaissance artist Francesco Parmigianino. He combined their images with a photo of Keanu to emphasize that he doesn't change over the years. Or if it changes, we clearly don't want to notice.

8. Keanu makes movies, builds motorcycles and writes books

Keanu Reeves is not just an actor. He is also a director: we owe him the film Master Tai Chi. He also founded a dubbing studio and created a motorcycle manufacturing company called Arch Motorcycle. And he even wrote books. When he discovered the famous meme “Keanu sad”, he decided to react with humor by publishing a book of poems Ode to happiness in collaboration with the painter Alexandra Grant. Beneath the illustrations rendered as if blurred by torrents of tears, we find poems like this: “I wash my hair with a shampoo of regrets, I take a hot bath of shame...”. Reeves said the book shouldn't be taken seriously, it was just a joke.

Overall, all of his projects are driven by passion and not by the desire to make money again and again: for example, he turned down his role in Speed ​​​​2 to play Hamlet instead in a small Canadian theater.

9. Keanu not only plays tough, but himself is a badass

Keanu Reeves carefully prepares each of his roles and does some of the action himself, but he always stresses that the most difficult stunts are for professionals. On several occasions he was injured during filming and on motorcycles: he injured his neck, ribs and legs, and after one of the 8 accidents, his spleen had to be removed. But Keanu still continues to ride his motorcycle and, of course, to act in films.

And that's why, despite all his quirks, we adore the handsome and kind Keanu. He doesn't just play in masterpieces, let's face it, but he sometimes gets involved in somewhat eccentric projects. Sometimes he can be scruffy and unshaven, wear badly worn boots, get fat and thin, be sad and lick his fingers when he eats. It is so deliciously imperfect!

Or maybe we love Keanu exactly because, while he's a world-famous megastar, he's also, ultimately, incredibly similar to all of us? Like us, he is imperfect, different, sad, resilient, dreamy, he falls and gets up, he has desires and doubts, he is beautiful, unique and cool? Keanu, you are amazing! We are all amazing.

Bonus: in this mini-film about a supermarket robbery, the authors replaced the face of the savior with that of Keanu Reeves

Did you know all this information about this extraordinary actor? What is your favorite Keanu Reeves movie? What do you really think of him? Tell us all about it in the comments.