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I think it would be easier to make a list of peopel with talent than without
95% percent of politicians
Keauna Reeves has stans?come on dude Keanu? You've got the whole Kardashian family and a bunch of teem moms on MTV not to mention the cast of Jersey Shore and you post fukking Neo
I can't stand this stupid fukking teenager dude acts like some sort of expert on everything yet is the most idiotic person on this site...
Keanu Reeves is almost 50. wow.
1. The Devil's Advocate: When making "The Devil's Advocate," Reeves agreed to take a big pay cut of a few million dollars (a few million dollars) so the producers could also afford to bring on Al Pacino. (He perhaps somewhat selfishly did have the fate of the movie itself in mind. One shudders to think of anyone else performing that climactic monologue other than Pacino. It wouldn't have quite the same zing with, say, Christopher Lambert in the role.)
2. The Replacements: He did the same thing on "The Replacements," allowing producers to bring on board Gene Hackman by demanding less cash up front for himself. He actually took a 90% paycut.
3. The Matrix: But the real generous side of Keanu (that doesn't have to do with giving millions to charity) came out when he was making his back-end deal for the two "Matrix" sequels.
True, Reeves was paid $10 million up front to film the first "Matrix" and ended up earning $35 million total after the film became a huge hit. But still, when negotiating his profit-sharing deal for the two follow-up films, Reeves opted to hand over some of his points to the franchise's special effects and costume design teams. The total amount Reeves could have earned but chose to disburse to the crew instead comes, by some accounts, to over $75 million. He donated over $75 to people he worked it because he thought they deserved it.
And in one personal account on Reddit, he helped out a family in need.
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. I've never heard anyone say Keanu is douche, seems like the nicest person in Hollywood from a second hand experience.
Also of note? Reeves gave the entire stunt team behind the "Matrix" sequels Harley Davidson motorcycles.
There are over 50,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county, making homelessness in general a huge problem. Most give them some change, and many ignore them, or even treat them like subhumans. But most people aren't Keanu Reeves.
In September of 1997 Keanu Reeves, who now has millions of dollars, decided to spend a West Hollywood morning with a homeless man, talking, sharing and treating him as an equal. Not recoiling in disgust at the man's belongings is one thing, but sharing, conversing and really spending some time sitting down with the less fortunate isn't something that people usually do while in the United States and not part of a program.
Most celebrities will travel the world to do this, or wait until a charity they're working for is sponsoring an event of some kind.
Keanu simply lives what he believes and doesn't need any of this in order to be giving, kind and just generally awesome.
These photos are a prime example of why he's the perfect example of what any of us should act like should we ever happen upon hundreds of millions of dollars.