His father abandoned him when he was 3 years old, his daughter di— at 8 months old, his wife di— in a car accident, his best friend di— of an overdose. And despite everything, Keanu Reeves never let that bitterness swallow him up, the world never ended.
While filming the movie “The Lake House”, he overheard the conversation of two wardrobe assistants, and a woman was crying because she would lose her house if she did not pay the amount of 20 thousand dollars. He deposited the amount into the woman’s account.
On his birthday in 2010, he walked into a bakery alone and bought a cupcake with nothing but a candle. While he ate it outside, he invited all the customers to have free coffee and bread. That was his luxurious birthday.
With what he earned with the Matrix trilogy, he distributed 50 million dollars among the special effects staff, because according to him, they were the true heroes of the films.
He has almost no doubles, only for very specific things like stunts. For this reason, he recognized the work of his double, and gave each of them a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
To date, he regularly uses the subway and other public transportation systems such as the bus when the case requires it because it is the most practical, and he is never ashamed for it.
A large number of hospitals claim to have received tens of millions of dollars from him.
He donated 90% of his salary in some films, so that the production could hire other future stars.
In 1997, a paparazzi found him on the street sitting next to a homeless man, listening to his life story and having breakfast with him.
Even from time to time you can see him practicing Brazilian Jujutsu with normal people inside a normal gym, and he does all this with the most humble attitude.
Everything good we know about Keanu Reeves was not told to us by him, but by those who benefited from him. He never came out to declare anything.
Because of everything he experienced, he could have had a sadder and more pessimistic view of life, but he still preferred to be that something good among all the bad things that happen to him.
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