Who is Keanu Reeves?

Keanu Reeves has been a Hollywood fixture since the mid-1980s, shifting from early dramatic turns in films like River’s Edge (1986) to action thrillers like Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999), and John Wick (2014) and an indelible performance as Theodore “Ted” Logan in the Bill & Ted franchise.

Does Keanu Reeves have a palimpsest?

Underscoring the prescience of reflecting on Keanu post 2000, we draw on the concept of the palimpsest – the rewriting of Keanu anew for each era. As Pappademas observes: ‘Every generation gets its own Keanu Reeves, except every generation’s Keanu Reeves is this Keanu Reeves’ (original emphasis, 2019, n.p.).

Does Keanu Reeves have an antidote to the news cycle?

Luckily, the Internet has recently provided us with an unlikely antidote to everything wrong with the news cycle: the actor Keanu Reeves. Take, for instance, a moment, a few weeks ago, when Reeves appeared on “The Late Show” to promote “ John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum ,” the latest installment in his action-movie franchise.

Did Keanu Reeves ever go away?

Of course, for long-term Reeves fans, Keanu had never really gone away, but his resurgent career was nonetheless greeted with wild adulation.