Everything on Keanu... And Then Some.
full name: Keanu Charles Reeves
birthday: September 2 (or 4?), 1964
birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
nickname: The Wall
height: 6'1
ethnicity: Dad is Half Hawaiian and Half Chinese, Mom is English. waaay cool combination
random
his name, Keanu means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian. ooh!
he's the bassist of his own band, Dogstar. And I must say after hearing their version of Superstar, they sound promising. Let's keep that a happy thought :D
he got his nickname from his position in ice hockey, the goalie! he was also an mvp.
usually play guys who have one-liners (literally) in the entire film.
some claim the he loves ballroom dancing.
afraid of the dark.
among his most prized possessions is his 1974 850cc Norton Combat Commando motorcycle.
he is a left-handed guy.
greatest part ever played was when he was Bill in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey. excellent, dude!.
signed up for the next two sequels of The Matrix.
personal quotes
"I'm a meathead man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb."
"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it."
"The first one is about birth, the second one is life; the third is death." Keanu on the Matrix Trilogy. haha.
more at imdb.com
news articles excerpts
The Matrix Reloads by Jess Cagle
It's high kicks, high tech and high concepts, as we peek inside the two Matrix sequels now shooting Down Under!
When we last visited the Matrix, computers had taken over the planet and imprisoned the human race in a computer-generated "reality." Keanu Reeves played Neo, a hacker turned superhero recruited to save his fellow man, and the movie ended with him literally taking flight. It was a cliff-hanger that might as well have been subtitled "Watch for the sequel, coming soon to a theater near you � that is, if this thing makes any money."
And it did � $459 million worldwide. More than a sleeper blockbuster, it was a blazingly original collage of martial arts, Oscar-winning special effects and high-toned philosophy borrowed from sources as diverse as Plato, the Bible and Snow White. Since Larry and Andy Wachowski, the fraternal directing duo, had always envisioned "The Matrix" as part one of a trilogy, Warner Bros. quickly put not one but two more Matrix films into production. "The first movie was like 'The Hobbit' for 'The Lord of the Rings'," says producer Joel Silver. "It's the setup to the big story."
The Wachowski brothers are currently in residence at the Fox studios in Sydney, Australia, simultaneously shooting "Matrix Reloaded" (part two) and "Matrix Revolutions" (part three). The movies won't come out until 2003 (Reloaded in May.....
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