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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Set ‘Bill & Ted’ Reunion on Broadway With ‘Waiting for Godot’

1 Aug 2024 | Ethan Shanfeld | Variety

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are reuniting for a new Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Jamie Lloyd. Reeves will play Estragon and Winter will play Vladimir in the show, which will open at an ATG theater in fall 2025.... Read more

"The Matrix" Changed My Life - Keanu Reeves Shares Fond Memories Of His Most Iconic Films

23 Jul 2024 | | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

20 Jul 2024 | Sam Leith | The Guardian

He thought his way into the part as an actor would. “Who is it? Maybe it’s like this. And why is this character? Maybe it’s a tribe, that’s being attacked ... And maybe it’s 80,000 years ago. And maybe he’s cursed with violence and can’t help it. And he’s half-god, half-human, half-alien ... and what does he want? Where’s he from? What caused this? How does that character love, and how do they live ... ?

“I didn’t want to do a vampire story – you know, kind of fatigued and immortal,” he says, before adopting a languid upper-class British accent. “‘I’m so tired. I’m so tired of life and drinking blaahd ... ’ I didn’t want him to be a werewolf, like when the moon came out ... I wanted something else.”

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Keanu Reeves Wrote a Book. A Really Weird One.

18 Jul 2024 | Alexandra Alter | The New York Times

“I wonder about technology. I wonder about this kind of extinction motive that it seems the species has. I don’t know why we’re in such a rush to get off the planet and become digitized. Maybe I wonder about love. And the power of it. Why is death so strong and love so frail, and yet it’s the strongest force on the planet? So, I like to think about those things, and I thought maybe I found that they could come out in a comic book.”

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Keanu Reeves discusses the inspiration for his first novel, The Book of Elsewhere: 'I think about death'

18 Jul 2024 | Wesley Stenzel | Entertainment Weekly

The comics and novel have allowed Reeves to reflect on philosophical and social themes that he doesn't fully comprehend. "Maybe I don't understand the violence of the world," he told the Times. "I don't understand that we all know we're going to die, and we kill each other over things that are, perhaps as you look back at them, not so important. Maybe I wonder about the world, you know, how did we get here, who are we."

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Keanu Reeves Once Wrote Lance Reddick a Letter Crediting Him for Making People ‘Love John Wick,’ Says Late Actor Made the Character ‘Okay’ for Viewers

5 Feb 2024 | Zack Sharf | Variety

“I once told him … Well, actually I wrote him a letter, and I said, ‘People love John Wick because Charon loves John Wick,'” Reeves continued. “Because that character loved John Wick, that made John Wick okay. And so when I got to act with him, we had such an affection.” ... Read more

Keanu Reeves To Team With Writer China Miéville On ‘BRZRKR’ Novel; Random House’s Del Rey Imprint Will Publish

10 Jan 2024 | Greg Evans | Deadline

The novel – Reeves’ first – is set in the world the BRZRKR comic series Reeves created with writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney. The novel will follow an immortal warrior on a millennia-long quest to discover the key to his immortality (and perhaps, a way to free himself from it).... Read more

Keanu Reeves recalls giving magic mushrooms to Francis Ford Coppola

23 Dec 2023 | Kevin E G Perry | Independent

Keanu Reeves has recalled once giving director Francis Ford Coppola magic mushrooms as a birthday gift. “I gave Francis Ford Coppola, once, for his birthday, some mushrooms,” the 59-year-old actor told the Inside Of You Podcast with Michael Rosenbaum. “While we were doing Dracula.”... Read more

Watch Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar Showcase Pensive Song ‘Blonde’ on ‘Fallon’

14 Dec 2023 | Emily Zemler | Rolling Stone

Dogstar stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their single “Blonde.” The group, led by actor and bassist Keanu Reeves, offered a powerhouse rendition of the anthemic track flanked by festive holiday lights.... Read more

Brawn: The Impossible F1 Story - Keanu Reeves on the 'fairytale underdog story'

15 Nov 2023 | Ciaran Varley | BBC

It's the "fairytale underdog story" Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves said simply had to be told on screen.... Read more

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