Hollywood stars often go to super cars, stay in mansions, spend money on luxury brands… they can’t spend all their money. However, one of them is completely “different”. Keanu Reeves is considered a “national gentleman” with a cold image on the screen but very kind with an extraordinary energy in life.
No bodyguards, no expensive houses, most live in hotels, live a nomadic life.
17-year-old Keanu Reeves has followed the path of art, best known for his famous movie “The Matrix” which was released worldwide in 1999. The film grossed a huge amount 1, 6 billion dollars; reap for the producer 4 prestigious Oscar gold statues; brought the name of Keanu Reeves to the most popular star in Hollywood at that time.
But in the Hollywood star circle, Keanu Reeves is completely an “extraordinary”. No bodyguards, no expensive houses, most live in hotels, live a nomadic life. Don’t buy a super car, just ride your favorite motorcycle. Do not wear designer clothes, often wear torn boots.
With his reputation, he is bound to receive a lot of advertising offers, but he only accepts the companies that he likes the most.
He donated 70% of the movie’s remuneration to the hospital, buying Harleys for 12 stuntmen.
Not flashy, glossy, Keanu always appears with a strangely simple and kind image
This year Keanu Reeves is 52 years old but looks very young on the outside. Carrying the American – Asian – European multinational bloodline, he has a very popular appearance and handsome face.
However, Keanu is usually not polished and does not worry about image.
When writer Raza Aslan started the topic “Kind stories about Keanu Reeves” on his personal Twitter, he started with the fact that the actor born in 1964 had bought a plot of land and now it is a school for his son. grandfather. Reeves has no children and no connection to the school, he simply heard that the children needed a place to go to school and decided to buy and donate the land.
This topic quickly gained attention from the online community, and many people who had the opportunity to meet Reeves shared his kindness, with the hashtag #KeanuStories.
Sometimes his hair is messy, his clothes are sloppy, and the shoes he wears are also very old.
A laid-back, do-it-yourself Keanu doesn’t sound like the Hollywood superstar everyone imagines.
In 2010, a paparazi caught the image of Keanu Reeves sitting alone on a park bench, holding a half-eaten sandwich and a very thoughtful face. The whole internet exploded with the image of a lonely man on Mars. And a series of memes with the name Sad Keanu were born.
When encountering his famous sad version online, Keanu Reeves even couldn’t hold back his laughter: “The first thing I thought when I saw Sad Keanu’s image, was that it was too funny!”.
On the way, he would give money to beggars. He often chats and shares food with homeless people on the street.
On his 46th birthday, Keanu bought himself a small cake, lit a candle, sat on the side of the road and congratulated himself on his birthday. A homeless person on the street greeted him, he shared his birthday cake with this person.
Keanu lives a simple, frugal life, commuting regularly by subway and willing to make room for others if seats run out.
The most compassionate Hollywood star, quietly distributes money to those in need
A Keanu Reeves with a market value of no less than 300 million USD said: “Money is the thing that I don’t care about the most, now my money has been enough for centuries, spend it by giving money to those who need it. it’s more”. Keanu is so “ragged” not because he is poor and has no money, but because he spends money by distributing it to others.
Reeves enjoys sharing his affluence with the people he meets, interacts with and works with every day. Because he appreciates their contribution in the works that bring him success.
Three films The Matrix helped Keanu Reeves gross a total of $114 million in remuneration. And he was so generous that he used $75 million of it to give to the entire VFX staff of the film. The entire number of Harley Davidson brand motorcycles was also given by Keanu to the stunt cast in the film as a tribute. “The people behind the scenes are the ones who deserve it!”
“Money is the last thing on my mind. I can live well with the money I make for centuries, spending it by giving it to those who need it more.”
When filming the movie “The Replacements”, to invite actor Gene Hackman to participate, he reduced his salary. In the movie “The Devil’s Advocate”, he took the initiative to reduce his salary by $ 1.8 million in the hope that the crew could invite actor Al Pacino.
“I am this independent because I understand life well.”
Keanu was born in the Republic of Lebanon (a small country in the Middle East), to a Hawaiian Chinese father and an English mother. At the age of 3, his parents emigrated. Because of that, Keanu had to live in Lebanon, Hawaii, Macao and eventually Canada.
Keanu’s childhood passed full of ups and downs. When he was young, his father went to prison. Since then, the father and son did not see each other again.
In 1999, Syme – his girlfriend became pregnant, the child died in the 8th month before birth. What is more unfortunate is that Syme later died in an accident. At the time, Keanu was filming Matrix 2, when he received bad news, he hurriedly left the crew.
During the funeral, Keanu and his relatives lifted the coffin together, which was called “the love of her life” on Syme’s obituary.
Keanu’s sister Kim Reeves was diagnosed with blood cancer. Because of his sister, he converted his house into a hospital room, donating most of his salary to the cancer hospital. He spent a lot of time taking care of his sister.
Instead of grieving, Keanu Reeves also donates money to many such organizations, such as Stand up to Cancer, Sickkids Foundation Sickkids Foundation to help patients like his sister who have Leukaemia syndrome.
But as usual, he rarely revealed his name to the people he helped.
Instead of drowning in sadness and loss, instead of turning to alcohol and drugs to forget or blame the whole world, Keanu Reeves chose to overcome the pain with his strong will. He works hard and devotes his energy to new goals. Like how he coped with his dyslexia as a child. Due to Dyslexia – dyslexia, Keanu Reeves never graduated from high school because he could not remember what he had read.
Today, Keanu reads a lot. He even fluently read Marcel Proust’s 7-volume Remembrace of Things Past novel series (with a total of 1.5 million words and over 3000 pages long). The director of The Day the Earth Stood Still called Keanu Reeves “one of the most greedy readers in the world”.)
Money for those in need, live a leisurely life
Keanu has been through all the ups and downs in life that make him understand life: no designer clothes, no need for a lavish life; Money, material things, these things are not important, do whatever you want to do.
Now 52 years old, Keanu Reeves still runs his old Harley, living a free and free life.
He once said: “I don’t want to run away from life because I know its beauty. I still want to get married and have kids and I will.
Sometimes the enemy is the best teacher and we can learn from our mistakes. Destruction sometimes means rebirth.”
Keanu’s words and actions warmed the world. Everyone hopes that in the future someone will warm his heart, an artist with a kind heart.
It is no coincidence that recently, the New Yorker had an article about him with the title “Keanu Reeves is too good for this world”! Indeed, Keanu Reeves – The world needs more stars like you!
