The most outrageous facts about Keanu Reeves' life
He’s huge on the Internet
Reeves has often been an inspiration for memes, viral pictures, and the overall delight of the internet.
In May 2010, a photographer snapped an image of Reeves sitting on a park bench, eating a sandwich while looking sad and disheveled. It instantly became an internet sensation known as “Sad Keanu” that inspired hundreds of people to Photoshop their own versions in attempts to explain why Keanu was so sad, such as adding a caption that says “because when I act, I’m no longer me” or depicting Reeves being attacked by cats. In mere weeks, concerned people of the internet had joined together to create a holiday (celebrated on June 15) called Cheer Up Keanu Day.
In 2011, Reeves went viral again when he was captured on video on the New York City subway giving up his seat to a woman carrying bags. And two years later, he pulled off an internet hat trick when an image of a 16th century painting called “Portrait of a Man,” taken at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, spread around the web due to its subject’s uncanny resemblance to Reeves. Given that he’d played a time traveler in his 2006 movie The Lake House, the jokes were both obvious and plentiful.
Time-traveling isn’t the only myth about Reeves. While it might seem like he says “whoa!” in all of his movies, he’s actually only used the expression in four of them: The Matrix, Point Break, and both of the Bill and Ted adventures.
The most outrageous facts about Keanu Reeves" life
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