The actor’s father, Samuel, abandoned the family when Reeves, who was mostly raised in Toronto, was only a toddler. “He really related to that character, passionately motivated by loss - of his father when he was a kid, of River, of his child, of a woman he spent several years with,” said the casting director. His life’s tragedies inspired Reeves to accept the role of the titular grieving assassin in the John Wick film series.
“He had some seriously dark days after that.” “If Ava’s death wasn’t devastating enough, he’d considered Jennifer his soulmate,” a colleague said of the actor. She died instantly, and an investigation found she was intoxicated at the time of the wreck. Syme, 28, was reportedly battling depression the night she drove her Jeep into a line of parked cars in Los Angeles on April 1, 2001. The grief was too much for the couple’s relationship they broke up not long after, then reunited in 2001. In 1999, his then-girlfriend Jennifer Syme, an assistant to director David Lynch, gave birth a month early to their daughter - but the baby, named Ava, was stillborn. Reeves was reportedly devastated in 1993, when his best friend and My Own Private Idaho co-star, River Phoenix, died of a drug overdose. Picture: AFPīut insiders say that part of his desire to share comes from having lost so much in his own life. Reeves brought mother Patricia Taylor as his date to the 2020 Oscars. Considerate, communicative, caring - there’s no one whose name he doesn’t know or hasn’t had a conversation with.” He’s always prepared, he’s always on time.
“The reason Keanu’s starred in 60 movies,” said one casting director who’s worked with him, “is that, on top of audiences, directors love him, co-stars love him, crews love him. Stuntmen, fight trainers - these people rarely get that.” It’s because he takes them so seriously and credits them with helping contribute to his success. “Trust me, stunt guys are all dying to work with Keanu,” said a Hollywood production source.
On John Wick 4, which he shot recently in Paris and Berlin, Reeves gave Rolex Submariner watches to the stunt guys, complete with personal inscriptions. Reeves also gifted each of the 12 stuntmen on The Matrix Reloaded with one of his own favourite things: a Harley-Davidson bike. “Keanu’s infamous for his generosity,” said a Hollywood producer, citing the story that the actor slipped a $27,000 bonus to a Matrix set builder after learning the crew member was having financial troubles. He’s amassed a near-half-billion-dollar fortune in his career – and Kenau’s happy to spread the wealth.
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