The High Speed actress has nothing but praise for her colleague and she fondly remembers their time together behind the scenes.
Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves met on the set of Speed in 1994 and although they both admitted to being attracted to each other at the time, nothing happened between them. Only a great friendship united them. But, decades later, the questions about a possible romance between the two are still valid, so the actress this week returned to answer the concerns of the press.
In dialogue with Esquire magazine for a profile of who she was also her co-star in The Lake House (2006), the 57-year-old actress stated that she always believed that "being together" would have ruined the friendship they have been able to build. “But who knows?” she admitted despite this. “Keanu is a guy who, I think, is friends with all the women he dated. I don't think there is anyone who has something horrible to say about him, so maybe we could have survived,” she expressed.
As time goes by, Bullock says that she is more and more amazed at certain goodness of the Matrix protagonist. “We can grow together in parallel careers and meet for dinner and try to work together, but the more time goes by, the more in awe of the human being that he is. Would I have been able to say that if he had left me -if he had been in a romantic relationship- and made me angry? Probably not," reflected the Oscar winner.
In addition, the protagonist of A Possible Dream recalled that she once mentioned to Keanu that she had never drunk champagne or eaten truffles, so a few days later the John Wick star gave her these luxurious delicacies along with a bouquet of flowers. "He said, 'I thought you might want to try the champagne and the truffles to see what they're like,'" she recounted Bullock. And she said that, when they met, she tried to cover any possible silence in her conversations by making different comments. However, the actress was surprised when Reeves remained silent. “I thought: ‘I don't understand what is happening! He is looking at me with confused eyes and is quiet. Did I say something to offend him?' But then a day or two later, she'd come in with a note, saying, 'I thought about what you said.' And she had her answer.
While both previously confessed to being attracted to each other when they first worked together, the actor is currently happily dating artist Alexandra Grant and Bullock is still in a relationship with Bryan Randall. However, the actress confessed that she would like to re-explore the chemistry between them on screen.
“I would love nothing more than to do a comedy with Keanu before we die, just laughing with him. He is funny. He may as well be 75 and he would be even better then as a senior cocoon playing two funny old men. A road trip. Just put us in an RV and we'll just drive real slow. There is our movie, ”said the actress in reference to what could be a reversal of Maximum speed.
Meanwhile, the spotlight is on Reeves' next appearance as Neo in what will be the fourth installment of The Matrix, Resurrections, which will be released on December 17. The film will reunite Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in this new production directed by Lana Wachowski. The film's trailer was screened as a preview at CinemaCon and, on the screen, a meeting between Neo and Trinity could be seen, characters who in the latest installment of the saga managed to escape, along with Morpheus and the rest of the team, from the simulated reality of the same name.
The film also features actors Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Toby Onwumere, Priyanka Chopra, Andrew Caldwell, Brian J. Smith, Ian Pirie, and Christina Ricci.
