Random Proof That Keanu Reeves Is Nicest Guy In Hollywood (20 items)

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  (#10) He Really Seems To Like Helping Others

  A lot of people work on movie sets, and not all of them are actors. Depending on their job, they may not make a lot of money. According to Redditor /u/kahi, Keanu Reeves heard about one such worker and offered assistance:

  A family friend builds movie sets, doesn't design, is one of the poor dudes that just builds. Anyways he worked on the set for the Matrix and Keanu heard about family trouble he was having and gave him a $20,000 Christmas bonus to help him out. He also was one of the only people on the set that genuinely wanted to know peoples names, would say hello and mean it, and would talk to people as they were his peers and not below him just because they were practically making nothing to build a set.
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  (#2) He Told An Entire Audience They Were Breathtaking After A Stranger Shouted A Compliment At Him

  Reeves surprised audience members at Xbox's pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles in June 2019 to announce his role in Cyberpunk 2077. At one point during his presentation he says, "The feeling of being there, of walking the streets of the future is really going to be breathtaking." 

  One of the excited viewers shouts back, "You're breathtaking," to which the actor laughs nervously and stumbles before telling the fan, "You’re breathtaking. We’re all breathtaking." 
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  (#1) He Refused To Mistreat Winona Ryder On The Set Of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

  In a profile by the Sunday Times, Winona Ryder reflected on filming Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992 with director Francis Ford Coppola, and co-stars Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves. Apparently, Coppola urged the actors to be verbally harmful toward Ryder to elicit an emotional reaction. According to Ryder, however, Reeves and Hopkins refused. 

  Ryder recalled the scene in which she and Dracula (Gary Oldman) are lying on a bed together: 

  I'm supposed to be crying. Literally, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu... Francis was trying to get all of them to yell things that would make me cry. But Keanu wouldn't, Anthony wouldn't... the more it happened, I was like... It just didn't work. I was, like, really? It kind of did the opposite.

  Ryder prefaced that she and Coppola have mended their relationship, and she and Reeves have maintained a close friendship for many years. 
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  (#15) He Is The King Of Kind Gestures

  It seems everyone who interacts with Keanu Reeves knows the actor is just a cool guy who likes to do nice things for people. Redditor /u/bo2dd2 claimed to have experienced that firsthand:

  Back in the late 90s and fresh out of college I got my first job as an assistant prop designer on the set of Chain Reaction (Keanu was a supporting actor with Morgan Freeman). EVERY DAY for the last few weeks of filming, Keanu treated the stage hands and "grunt workers" (including myself) by taking us out for free breakfast and lunch. He was genuinely a very nice guy to work with.

  Since then, I've worked on about 30 different sets and have never met an actor as generous and friendly as him.
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  (#13) He Can Laugh At Himself

  In 2010, someone took a photograph of Keanu Reeves while the actor sat alone on a park bench eating a sandwich, sparking the Sad Keanu meme. Photoshop aficionados posted versions of the meme all over Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.

  Reeves wasn't embarrassed by it, however. "My first experience with [becoming a meme] was Sad Keanu, and I thought it was funny!" he revealed on Reddit.
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  (#5) He Feels Bad That His Band, Dogstar, Was Dubbed A 'Movie Star's Vanity Project'

  In a 2019 GQ profile, Reeves opened up about his early '90s music career. He and Rob Mailhouse started an alt-rock band called Dogstar. Reeves and Mailhouse bonded over hockey at a local supermarket. The pair linked up and created Dogstar with Reeves on the bass and Mailhouse on the drums. Reeves told GQ that they once played at the Milwaukee Metal Fest alongside hardcore punks like Murphy’s Law. Dogstar played a Grateful Dead cover and Reeves recalls, "[The audience was] just like, F*ck you, you suck. I had the biggest grin on my face, man." 

  Reeves also explained that he feels bad for subjecting his band mates to the repercussions of his movie star status. Although he says the band may have had a better chance if they "were better," he also contributes part of their failure to the fact that people often looked as Dogstar as "a movie star's vanity project." 

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