@donnaj - yea the second one is beautiful. Is that an actual pic or poster from 47 Ronin?

http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/01/yonekura-ryoko-to-join-keanu-reeves-for-47-ronin/

http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/01/yonekura-ryoko-is-not-going-to-appear-in-47-ronin-with-keanu-reeves/

Polynesian to Japanese.. not that far of a stretch.

At any rate, interested in seeing this one come to life :).

Judging by pictures of Sam, I think he actually looks more Polynesian and less Chinese. However, I think Keanu's eyes have a more Chinese than Polynesian look to them.

As LucaM says, Hiro is a "half-breed", so Keanu should fit perfectly. I wonder whether they'll do much in terms of make-up etc. to make him look even more Asian than he is.

On another note, I think it's funny how many journalists have described him through the years as having "exotic cheekbones", when in fact his cheekbones aren't prominent at all. :-)

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Sans the over-the-top actual Kabuki of course (can't imagine that particular incarnation of K as a samurai warrior ;).

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...I would so watch that movie. :|

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Keanu's father is Hawaiian-Chinese, but I've never read anything about how much of each there's in the mix.

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Keanu's paternal grandmother is supposed to be the one of Chinese descent, but her name is Sarah M. Victor - not exactly a Chinese name. So she too was likely mixed, which would likely put Keanu's father at 25% Chinese or less, unless Sarah was more than half Chinese.

But there's supposedly a lot of Polynesian mixed in there as well.

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But there's supposedly a lot of Polynesian mixed in there as well.

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Yes, and I suppose that even if a person calls himself "Polynesian" he might in fact have some non-Polynesian blood in the mix, given the history of Hawaii. So Keanu's paternal grandfather, even if he's listed as "Polynesian", may have had some none-indigenous blood in him.

http://web.me.com/amkirk/Maunalua/Kuli%E2%80%99ou%E2%80%99ou.html

it's quite a mix :D

I include Keanu Reeves in this column partly as a personal indulgence – we are sixth cousins. Keanu Charles Reeves (b. 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is half-English, three-eighths Hawaiian, and one-eighth Southern U.S. His father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr., husband of Patricia Taylor, is the son of an earlier Samuel Nowlin Reeves and Sarah Monilani Victor of Hawaii. The elder S. N. Reeves was the son of Charles Armistead Reeves of White Co., Tenn. and Honolulu, and Rose Lakalia Miguel, the latter half-Portuguese and half-Hawaiian. Charles Armistead Reeves was the son of a Sampson W. Reeves and Mary Virginia Armistead Nowlin, treated in the weak but still useful Nowlin-Stone genealogy. The parents of Mary Virginia were Armistead Shelton Nowlin and Mary E. Lanier (as in poet Sidney Lanier). Armistead Nowlin was the son of Richard Wade Nowlin and Celia Shelton, and grandson of my own forebears twice over, Bryan Ward Nowlin and Lucy Wade of Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. Elizabeth Nowlin, daughter of Bryan and Lucy, married Joseph Devin. Their children William and Lucy married, respectively, Elizabeth Croff and Richard B. Beck; and children of these last, James A. Devin and Massy F. Beck, married each other. Lucy Elizabeth Devin, daughter of James and Massy, married Willis Petree Fry, who moved from Tennessee to Texas. Mary Louise Fry, their youngest child, married John Christopher Roberts and was the mother of Jack Carl Roberts, my father (by Mary Elizabeth Boyd).

http://www.americanancestors.org/assortment-famous-actors/

I wonder where Keanu's Chinese genes were infused.

http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7837:script-review-keanu-reeves-vehicle-47-ronin&catid=41:news&Itemid=71

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/02/03/keanu-reeves-frequents-local-london-gym-looking-like-a-tramp-115875-22894985/

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Then it must have been a pretty shallow crush:-) He is allowed to have a bad-shave day, for goodness sake! You haven't ended my crush with your description anyway:-)

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