Keanu Reeves' Dream of Playing Macbeth

HE started off his movie career with Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure before charging enigmatically about The Matrix in a flapping leather mac.

So what next for Keanu Reeves? Shakespeare of course.

The 46-year-old admitted his remaining burning ambition was to play Macbeth on stage.

“Yes I’d love to do that role,” says the movie star, adding that he’s held talks with leading directors in the hope of making it happen.

“It hasn’t worked out yet but maybe down the road. Maybe I’m too old for the role but it is Shakespeare so you can do it whenever.”

He is keen to tackle the Bard again even though his previous efforts in the Nineties failed to impress the critics.

His theatrical effort in Hamlet on stage in Canada was not well received and he earned a Golden Raspberry Award for his performance as Don John in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing.

But Reeves remains a Shakespeare obsessive and carries a collection of the Bard’s sonnets with him wherever he goes, happily quoting verses at whim. He tells Moving Pictures magazine: “There are certain lines that are just great, like, ‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, and with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste’. Y’know?”

Whoa! Excellent.