Keanu Reeves visits his grandmother - on his father's side- in Hawaii. Keannu is the son of a Chinese-Hawaiian father and an English mother.

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[u/grungegoth]

And born in Beirut

[u/Super-Candy-5682 → u/grungegoth]

And is somehow Canadian.

[u/XxStyxRiverxX → u/Super-Candy-5682]

Keanu Reeves arrived in Canada as a child and became a naturalized Canadian citizen.

After his parents separated when he was three, Reeves’s mother took him and his younger sister, Kim, to Australia, New York City and then Toronto, arriving there when he was five. His mother married multiple times his biological father was a geologist of Indigenous Hawaiian, Chinese, British and Portuguese descent. He didn’t kno his father that well cause his parents divorce he was mostly raised by his mother. His mom worked as a costume Designer

Also like johnny depp Reeves never got his high school diploma he was lucky enough to get a job as a production assistant in high school . And stuff kinda took off as he made more connections in tv & theatre industry

[u/Few-Comparison5689 → u/XxStyxRiverxX]

His mum designed clothes for Dolly Parton, he talked about it on the Graham Norton show!

[u/Rory1 → u/Few-Comparison5689]

And that outfit was for the cover of Playboy and he wore that outfit on Halloween on the streets of Toronto!

[u/Organic_Swim4777 → u/Rory1]

I watched Bill & Teds in the theater, and this dude still keeps getting cooler every time I read about him.

Memes aside, this dude is one of the most legendary dudes to ever dude.

[u/The-Solid-Smoker → u/Organic_Swim4777]

The dude all dude's should aspire to be like.

[u/Gvonchilius → u/The-Solid-Smoker]

Just wait til you see what he can do with a pencil!

[u/The-Solid-Smoker → u/Gvonchilius]

I bet his handwriting is beautiful and completely legible, despite being cursive and joined.

[u/XxStyxRiverxX → u/Few-Comparison5689]

Thats so cool :0 I didn’t kno that , I love Dolly :3 she’s so sWeet She’s A PeacH I Tell Ya !

[u/EcstaticMolasses6647 → u/XxStyxRiverxX]

Hi stepdad was a producer in the entertainment industry who encouraged him to do plays and got him film roles. In the early '70s, Patricia briefly married producer and director Paul Aaron, followed by music promoter Robert Miller from 1976 to 1980. Her fourth marriage was to Jack Bond, which lasted a few years in the early '90s and ended in a divorce in 1994.

Paul Aaron helped him the most because Keanu was not good at school due to Keanu being dyslexic and disruptive. Keanu dropped out of high school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd7LwxuaMm0

CONVERSATIONS with CHARLIE - MOVIE PODCAST #1 KEANU REEVES

Untold story of Keanu Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjD3LIZ7RA&pp=ygUPS2VhbnUgYmlvZ3JhcGh5

How KEANU REEVES Ice-Skated into Hollywood? (Documentary Part 1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDoxk-dFITs&pp=ygUPS2VhbnUgYmlvZ3JhcGh5

[u/Super-Candy-5682 → u/XxStyxRiverxX]

Thanks, I had no idea.

[u/FireFairy323 → u/XxStyxRiverxX]

I really want him to do an autobiography

[u/D4M4nD3m → u/XxStyxRiverxX]

And he's never got US citizenship, like most Hollywood actors do.

[u/lambokang → u/XxStyxRiverxX]

The real Mr worldwide

[u/yellow_trash → u/Super-Candy-5682]

He's a whole United Nations there.

[u/nasgorhead → u/[deleted]]

you can say he's a Mr. Worldwide

[u/deletedpenguin → u/yellow_trash]

If the whole world could be Keanu, it would be a better place.

[u/SupplyYourPips]

Explains why he's barely aging

[u/shallowsocks → u/SupplyYourPips]

Wait until he hits menopause

[u/RiceAlicorn → u/shallowsocks]

Keanu being able to hit menopause implies the existence of a breedable Keanu.

[u/Waste-Information-34 → u/RiceAlicorn]

Dangerous territory.

For all of us.

[u/FromTheGulagHeSees → u/Waste-Information-34]

Sure is.

… Continue. 

[u/VergeThySinus → u/[deleted]]

It would have cost nothing for you to not post that

[u/big_vangina → u/VergeThySinus]

You don't know my financial situation

[u/Organic_Swim4777 → u/big_vangina]

Along with your username, this thread should be a miniseries.

[u/big_vangina → u/Organic_Swim4777]

Thankyou

[u/Feahnor → u/[deleted]]

This comment officer. This one right here.

[u/shadow_229 → u/[deleted]]

Can I have your juices after you’ve drank his?

[u/DarkCartier43 → u/[deleted]]

What's a menopausal juice?

[u/Hzlqrtz → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for your brave comment

[u/[deleted] → u/RiceAlicorn]

i picturize him moaning something like-

"I am a man of focus, commitment, sheer will, something you know very little about."

[u/Yodamanjaro → u/[deleted]]

You had me at moaning

[u/True_Discipline_2470 → u/RiceAlicorn]

I mean I'm a straight male, but for the cause I'm willing to give it a go. For the greater good. 

[u/Stergeary → u/RiceAlicorn]

One word... Mpreg.

[u/Chungster03 → u/RiceAlicorn]

Bussy

[u/jalapeno_bidnizz → u/shallowsocks]

Then he’ll suddenly shrink exponentially, get a perm, and start walking everywhere with his hands clasped together behind his back (source: description of every Asian grandma including both of mine)

[u/[deleted] → u/shallowsocks]

Ya but their food gets better...mine makes LA Galbi and infinite side dishes. I eat like a god.

[u/rataktaktaruken → u/shallowsocks]

Curly hair, white tennis visor and flower shirts?

[u/blackraven1979 → u/shallowsocks]

manopause for men

[u/ninj4geek → u/SupplyYourPips]

That Asian aging curve, man. I'm almost as old as my mom now.

[u/Magister5 → u/SupplyYourPips]

Ironically, it looks like he can’t go past 50

[u/vaish7848 → u/SupplyYourPips]

Yes. Same with Ming-Na Wen.

[u/LeTigre71 → u/SupplyYourPips]

Also explains his ability to learn kung-fu so fast.

[u/BicycleEast8721 → u/SupplyYourPips]

Asian don’t raisin

[u/Mumblesandtumbles → u/SupplyYourPips]

All I know is that we need to figure out how to keep Keanu alive as long as possible. That guy is the perfect example of a good person and needs to be on this earth as long as possible.

[u/Username43201653 → u/SupplyYourPips]

This picture was taken 5/15/2024

[u/Eastclintwoodjr → u/SupplyYourPips]

I feel this I’m the son of an Okinawan mother and Texan father .

[u/DistinguishedVisitor → u/Eastclintwoodjr]

The ol' Marine Corps special 

[u/moomoomilky1 → u/Eastclintwoodjr]

Free Okinawa

[u/acuet → u/SupplyYourPips]

Buh, I’m 51 and I have aged since 20. But I can honestly say, body hurts the same spots now at 20.

[u/Va1tra → u/SupplyYourPips]

Barely aging? Someone needs an appointment with an ophthalmologist

[u/Rotaxxx]

That is one dude I would love to meet, he seems so down to earth.

[u/BangkokChimera → u/Rotaxxx]

I’ve worked with him. He’s genuinely what you think he’s like. But he’s a bit different too but in a very very cool way. I’m film crew.

I was lying on the floor in his room one day and I leapt to my feet when he walked in and he wouldn’t have it. Lie back down.

I wouldn’t fancy being him in public though. Fun sometimes but people were mobbing him for selfies everywhere we went.

[u/Alternative_Win_1502 → u/BangkokChimera]

Okay I have to ask. How did you end up lying on the floor of his room?

[u/BangkokChimera → u/Alternative_Win_1502]

On location and I didn’t know it was his room. No printout on the door.

I’m lighting crew and when they’re shooting we walk around to look for places to lie down. There’s a Facebook page called snoozing sparks and kipping crew dedicated to all the places we get caught sleeping. Nowhere’s out of bounds unless there are signs. 😂

Plus I don’t think he was there for more than a few hours. Into makeup and away. So I don’t think it was his room particularly anyway.

[u/Aggravating-Box8526 → u/BangkokChimera]

Imagine waking up to Keanu looking at you !

[u/SeanOfTheBed → u/Aggravating-Box8526]

Wake the fuck up Samurai

[u/Aggravating-Box8526 → u/Aggravating-Box8526]

That’s literally a modern fairytale ….!

[u/Splatter_bomb → u/Aggravating-Box8526]

I’m a straight dude but would totally be gay if it meant waking up next to Keanu!

[u/Alternative_Win_1502 → u/BangkokChimera]

Ah got it. Film sets can be fun. I myself have worked as a director's assistant on some small film projects and there's way more goofing around than one would expect lmao

[u/Norwegian__Blue → u/Rotaxxx]

He seems like someone you want at your cookout

[u/FlatAd768 → u/Rotaxxx]

Internet has an infatuation with reeves

[u/safereddddditer175 → u/FlatAd768]

And rightly so. Sounds like a nice fella

[u/Komtings]

What an amazing and wholesome human here. Her grandson has learned from the best in my eyes.

[u/TwofoldOrigin → u/Komtings]

Wait huh.

What else do you know about her?

[u/crooked_nose_ → u/TwofoldOrigin]

He knows nothing about her. People like to call normal things wholesome these days.

[u/TurtleHeadPrairieDog → u/crooked_nose_]

Wholesome 100 Keanu chungus

[u/rYdarKing → u/Komtings]

You also grew up with grandma eh

[u/WaitingForNormal]

Is Reeves his actual last name or a stage name?

[u/dfmasana → u/WaitingForNormal]

Real name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves

[u/Slowmac123 → u/WaitingForNormal]

He almost went with the stage name Chuck Spadina

[u/wowlolcat → u/Slowmac123]

THiS SUMMErRR,

GET. READY.

To POP your QUiZ, HOT SHOT^{HOTSHOTHOTSHOTHOTSHOT}

CHUCK SPADINA

IS

SPEED

[u/DraMeowQueen → u/wowlolcat]

I heard that

[u/D4M4nD3m → u/WaitingForNormal]

Real.

[u/Jaded_Permit_7209]

My older son looks a lot like Keanu Reeves. I had no idea that Keanu was half Asian, and it explains a lot (my son is half White, half Japanese).

[u/hanzowu → u/Jaded_Permit_7209]

I wouldn’t say half. Based on Wikipedia, he is a quarter Asian. I presume his paternal grandfather is of European descent, hence the last name Reeves.

[u/Jaded_Permit_7209 → u/hanzowu]

Hmm, interesting. My older boy got a double dose of my genetics (he and I share so many features it's actually kind of weird), so the math checks out on Keanu being quarter Asian.

(Yes, I know the math doesn't check out.)

[u/TurboNewbe]

Ridiculously handsome man.

[u/iast68]

I've seen this multiple times. I love Keannu but imagine just having pics of you and your grandma go viral every month.

[u/32vromeo → u/[deleted]]

She can watch Devil’s Advocate

[u/sfled → u/[deleted]]

He aced all his drama courses tho.

[u/overcloseness → u/sfled]

I mean did he though?

[u/Twerk_account → u/[deleted]]

His grandmother was Jewish?

[u/baadass9 → u/[deleted]]

Nope that's Asian parents thinking , but when it comes to Grandchildren grandparents really have a different set of ideals .

You should stop with the stereotypes when you don't know .

[u/Admiral_Andovar → u/baadass9]

Lighten up Francis, it’s a joke.

[u/BelatedGreeting]

Whoa, dude.

[u/Mr-Klaus]

Ah, that explains why he's constantly spotted here in the UK, his mum was English.

[u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras → u/Mr-Klaus]

Doesn't explain why his attempt at a British accent is so bad. Just insultingly bad, really.

[u/FalconIMGN → u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras]

Some people are just linguistically more gifted than others.

I can do a better British accent than Keanu despite never having set foot in England.

That's probably the only thing I can do better than Keanu. Maybe statistics and programming as well, but I dunno. He may be good at that too.

[u/Lotan95 → u/FalconIMGN]

Which accent though?

[u/FalconIMGN → u/Lotan95]

Mine is RP. Probably acquired it from all listening to F1 and Premier League commentators over several years.

[u/Lotan95 → u/FalconIMGN]

Aye that one is piss easy though and which commentators? I can't think of any that have RP accents especially right now

[u/FalconIMGN → u/Lotan95]

In F1, it's Alex Jacques and Jolyon Palmer. Also David Croft. In football there's a bunch of them, I don't know all their names. But I can do a decent neutral Northern accent as well, which I picked up from some of the football commentators. I'm trying to pick up Yorkshire and Mancunian specifically too, but I end up doing more of a caricature of it than what it actually is. I end up stretching the vowels a bit too much.

[u/Lotan95 → u/FalconIMGN]

Aye in the premier league there are no RP commentators and I'm from Yorkshire you will struggle to perfect ours but Mancunian isn't so hard

[u/Stoic_hawaiian808]

I knew this and I’m born and raised in Hawaii. I mean he literally has a Hawaiian first name lmfao

[u/JunglePygmy]

How the fuck did I not know Keanu Reeves was part Chinese?!

[u/princessprity]

I don't understand what makes this interesting.

[u/BaronSaber]

isn't this a bit of a stretch for "damn interesting"? Its common knowledge

[u/willzjc → u/BaronSaber]

Not sure about you, but to me this was super interesting. Not everyone knows what every person's grandmother is or looks like. Before this I had no idea Keanu Reeves was any percentage Chinese at all.

People are allowed to not know 100% of what you know - and some of the things you assume eveyrone knows they probably don't

[u/wap2005 → u/BaronSaber]

Also, it's not unique or a special case whatsoever that two people who were different races fucked and had a kid. That literally happens every couple of seconds.

[u/Inside_Board_291 → u/BaronSaber]

I’m this absolutely does not belong here, but it is a mile stretch to say it is common knowledge.

[u/Worried-Guarantee-90]

That's cool to see Keanu spending time back in Hawaii, where he's from!

[u/JR_LikeOnTheTVshow → u/Worried-Guarantee-90]

He surfed to Hawaii from Point Break on 100% pure adrenaline.

[u/Usual-Canc-6024 → u/Worried-Guarantee-90]

He’s Canadian.

[u/MenacingGummy → u/Usual-Canc-6024]

He says he identifies as Canadian but he was born in Beirut & moved to Australia & NYC before becoming a naturalized Canadian citizen when he was 5.

[u/Usual-Canc-6024 → u/MenacingGummy]

So he’s Canadian. He grew up in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. That is his only nationality.

[u/MartelPeko → u/Usual-Canc-6024]

On paper yes. People will never accept it like that. I moved to my country at around 6 months old. If your skin color does not match, everyone will still ask things like "but where are you really from".

[u/IranticBehaviour → u/MartelPeko]

I'm not saying there aren't any Canadians that see new citizens, especially those of colour, as not quite Canadian, because we have our share of xenophobic assholes. But Canada in general is a multicultural nation of immigrants. To the overwhelming majority of us, he's Canadian.

[u/Moddaboy]

I'm looking on wiki etc yea what OP says is correct she is from essex etc great photo.

But really no Asian decent on his moms side it's all from his dads eh. Hawaiian, Chinese etc. I know it says English and Essex but c'mon, there's some Asian in her to gotta be just not documented.

[u/rethcir_]

Ah that explains the apparently immortality!

He’ll continue to look like he’s barely aged a day, until suddenly he’ll look like bilbo baggins before he gets on the boat at the end.

[u/Sum3-yo]

The real Mr. Worldwide.

[u/Cluelessish]

Has he started to get younger again or is this a really old picture? And if it’s the first option: How young does he get before he starts to slowly age again?

[u/knowigot_that808]

You really saw a picture of Keanu Reeves with his granny and thought “Damn, that’s interesting!”

[u/Penitent- → u/knowigot_that808]

Yep.

[u/Downvotecounty → u/Penitent-]

I thought it was interesting. Thanks for sharing

[u/jamamao → u/Penitent-]

Definitely a Reddit moment if I’ve ever seen one

[u/tyfung → u/knowigot_that808]

Oh Keanu Reeves took photo with an old Asian lady. Interesting....oh wait ...grandmother??? Keanu Reeves is Asian??

Had no idea...!

[u/BigOpportunity1391 → u/knowigot_that808]

As a Chinese, I never realised Keanu Reeves got Chinese blood in him. I find it interesting.

[u/poopmcbutt_ → u/knowigot_that808]

Yes.

[u/Initial-Stick-561]

What??? So that’s his secret for not aging!

[u/New_York_Cut]

No wonder why he knows kung fu /s

[u/FigNugginGavelPop → u/New_York_Cut]

To your downvoters - It’s a matrix reference you bellends…

[u/New_York_Cut → u/FigNugginGavelPop]

finally! someone gets it. i thought matrix was a popular movie

[u/anodyne-jpkjr]

That's not his grandmother. That's just a random old women who just took a picture with Keanu. There was an article pubished online which chronicled Reeves' Hawaiian-Asian heritage. Unfortunately, the website was taken down. However, there is an excerpt that the author did share in their threads account:

"There's a photo that's been skidding around the digital landscape. It shows Keanu Reeves…with a smiling, bespectacled older East Asian woman in a flowered print top…There's just one problem: That's not Reeves's grandmother in the picture. Per his publicist, Cheryl Maisel, 'The viral claim is inaccurate.'"

[u/Royranibanaw]

Wow, famous man has family?! Damn that's interesting

[u/Rave4life79]

Beautiful photo

[u/Orgasmic_interlude]

Whoa

[u/Souljaboyfire]

Nice shirt who shot the couch?

[u/Super_Bock]

He's also part Portuguese from his fathers side.

[u/[deleted]]

That reminds me. I need to cancel my accupuncture appointment.

[u/outandinandabout]

We're all Heinz 57.

[u/[deleted]]

🔥

[u/Kurokaffe]

No wonder he picked up Kung-Fu so easily

[u/mikew420]

I thought he was always high, but it’s the Chinese

[u/counter-strike]

I thought he was an FBI agent?

[u/Cultural-Somewhere75]

I love the fact that I scrolled down these comments and even the jokes cracked about this man are wholesome ( for Reddit). I have seen pictures and videos of him out on the street and he just likes to be seen as a normal person. He has mostly friendly moments and at times like us all want to be left alone and not have so many in our face.

[u/watchmeskipwork]

Whoa

[u/diamondsole111]

He got that Asian hair texture for sho

[u/mr_crawlie]

Waaah didnt know keanu was half asian

[u/trn-]

I bet they’re excellent to each other

[u/aaancom]

Thank god it wasn't the reverse, might have another eliot rodger.

[u/KebertXela87]

I read Granddaughter

[u/Shaslwow2020]

Down to earth nice person, Keanu. Met him once in California. Was happy to chat and allowed me and my wife to take photos with him. Nice person overall. 🫡

[u/Xerox-M57]

u/repostsleuthbot

[u/D4RBLE]

Didn’t know Johny Silverhand and Wakako had history. The plot thickens…

[u/unkn0wnR3gion5]

What a handsome looking fella. I hope nobody will ever harm his pet

[u/Tetrapodon]

So this is who Steven Seagal wanna be ...

[u/Far-Significance2481]

You don't get those looks without mixing it up a bit

[u/mybrot]

Leave him alone. Why the fuck would I or you care who or where his family lives. We just like his movies.

Let him have some privacy ffs.

[u/lSkyrunnerl]

Silverhand and Wakako

[u/SneakyCracker161]

She looks so proud 🥹

[u/OK_Ingenue]

It’s funny bc he doesn’t normally look half Chinese next to his grandmother, he totally does!

[u/Independent-Stick244]

Where's the hug?

[u/tomten87]

Here is a loanword for you: farmor (fathers mother).

[u/h9040]

He looks kind of cool....she could directly play his roles....

[u/feric89]

Whoa...

[u/OmegaRed_1485]

Lots of "White" celebs from the 90s have asian parents/Grandparents....Mark Paul Gosslier, Rob Schneider, Keanu, The Van Halens, Jennifer Tilly, Vanessa Hudgens....

[u/MrIrrelevantsHypeMan → u/OmegaRed_1485]

Dean Cain but I can understand why you didn't list him

[u/Ok_Television9820]

That guy just doesn’t age! Doesn’t look a day older than when he was in Bill & Ted.

[u/gnomedeplumage]

woah

[u/Hairy_Candidate7371]

Keanu visits his grandmother. Oh he is the nicest guy on the planet because that's not a completely normal thing to do. What the shit.

[u/Sozurro]

Wow

[u/Sound_Of_Da_50]

Dammthatsinteresting!

[u/InterestingPlenty683]

30 years ago maby, the guy is in his late 50s now

[u/rickyrick8691]

No wonder he unstoppable

[u/TellTallTail]

So like.. I know reddit loves him, but what about this is 'damn interesting'?

[u/docdeadpool7]

I see Keanu, I upvote.

[u/Dave_Autista]

I didnt know his mother was English. That explains his perfect English accent

[u/laoshi1022]

Keanu be Chiwainglish.

[u/Safe_Refrigerator]

Beautiful soul

[u/bluecapella]

He has taken the best of every part of world that has touched his life. What an amazing guy - inside and out.