
There’s arguably no face in Hollywood who musters more 90s nostalgia than Keanu Reeves.
Reeves’ film repertoire, Hollywood social circle, and candid, often poetic, media presence encapsulates the angst of the era so pivotal to the pop culture world.
Not to mention his 90s pin-up looks – conventionally handsome, broody with a slight eccentric air.

But the now 54-year-old Matrix star's life away from the camera is one riddled with tragedy.
From an absent father to the loss of a child, best friend and great love - his story is one of remarkable resilience in the face of heartache.
His childhood was nomadic - the Reeves family moved around. They spent time in Lebanon, Australia and the US, before settling in Toronto, Canada. By this stage in his childhood, his father had dropped out of picture, leaving his mother to take care of him and his younger sister Kim.
Reeves' father was later arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine, and sentenced to ten years in jail in 1994. He was released in 1996.
"The story with me and my dad’s pretty heavy. It’s full of pain and woe and f**king loss and all that shit," Reeves once told Rolling Stone.
His mother later became a costume designer in Hollywood, shortly before Reeves embarked on his own acting career - having left high school without receiving a diploma.
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So, has Keanu written a book or something? Is he promoting a movie and giving interviews where he’s been talking about all this stuff? Or have you guys just written an article about a celebrity’s most painful private moments for no apparent reason? Because this seems like a really random thing to write about out of the blue.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Actually, I quite like this - it's just summarising the info about a celebrity that's out there that might not be common knowledge. You're right in that they often become more forthcoming when they've got a book or film or album coming out - one of the things I noticed about James Cordren's Carpool Karaoke when it became popular - but that doesn't mean that the bits they reveal aren't interesting. I'd rather this than raking over the latest reality TV minutae
As a bit of background for an interview or something, I can see how this would be interesting to people who weren’t familiar with his story. Or if he was speaking publicly about what had happened, the way Rob Delaney has been. But a random, out-of-context story about the tragedies in his life just really rubs me the wrong way - it feels a little ghoulish.
It's probably down to Bill & Ted 3 being announced recently and people remembering hey, Keanu Reeves.