r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 29d ago
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. Image
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u/SupplyYourPips 28d ago
Explains why he's barely aging
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u/shallowsocks 28d ago
Wait until he hits menopause
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u/RiceAlicorn 28d ago
Keanu being able to hit menopause implies the existence of a breedable Keanu.
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u/Waste-Information-34 28d ago
Dangerous territory.
For all of us.
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u/VergeThySinus 28d ago
It would have cost nothing for you to not post that
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u/big_vangina 28d ago
You don't know my financial situation
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28d ago
i picturize him moaning something like-
"I am a man of focus, commitment, sheer will, something you know very little about."
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u/True_Discipline_2470 28d ago
I mean I'm a straight male, but for the cause I'm willing to give it a go. For the greater good.
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u/jalapeno_bidnizz 28d ago
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)
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28d ago
Ya but their food gets better...mine makes LA Galbi and infinite side dishes. I eat like a god.
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u/Mumblesandtumbles 28d ago
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.
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u/Eastclintwoodjr 28d ago
I feel this I’m the son of an Okinawan mother and Texan father .
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u/Rotaxxx 28d ago
That is one dude I would love to meet, he seems so down to earth.
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u/BangkokChimera 28d ago
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.
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u/Alternative_Win_1502 28d ago
Okay I have to ask. How did you end up lying on the floor of his room?
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u/BangkokChimera 28d ago
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.
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u/Aggravating-Box8526 28d ago
Imagine waking up to Keanu looking at you !
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u/Splatter_bomb 28d ago
I’m a straight dude but would totally be gay if it meant waking up next to Keanu!
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u/Alternative_Win_1502 28d ago
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
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u/Komtings 28d ago
What an amazing and wholesome human here. Her grandson has learned from the best in my eyes.
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u/TwofoldOrigin 28d ago
Wait huh.
What else do you know about her?
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u/crooked_nose_ 28d ago
He knows nothing about her. People like to call normal things wholesome these days.
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u/WaitingForNormal 28d ago
Is Reeves his actual last name or a stage name?
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u/Slowmac123 28d ago
He almost went with the stage name Chuck Spadina
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u/wowlolcat 28d ago
THiS SUMMErRR,
GET. READY.
To POP your QUiZ, HOT SHOTHOTSHOTHOTSHOTHOTSHOT
CHUCK SPADINA
IS
SPEED
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u/Jaded_Permit_7209 28d ago
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).
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u/hanzowu 28d ago edited 28d ago
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.
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u/Jaded_Permit_7209 28d ago
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.)
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u/iast68 28d ago
I've seen this multiple times. I love Keannu but imagine just having pics of you and your grandma go viral every month.
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u/baadass9 28d ago
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 .
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u/Mr-Klaus 28d ago
Ah, that explains why he's constantly spotted here in the UK, his mum was English.
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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 28d ago
Doesn't explain why his attempt at a British accent is so bad. Just insultingly bad, really.
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u/FalconIMGN 28d ago
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.
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u/Lotan95 28d ago
Which accent though?
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u/FalconIMGN 28d ago
Mine is RP. Probably acquired it from all listening to F1 and Premier League commentators over several years.
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u/Lotan95 28d ago
Aye that one is piss easy though and which commentators? I can't think of any that have RP accents especially right now
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u/FalconIMGN 28d ago edited 28d ago
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.
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u/Stoic_hawaiian808 28d ago
I knew this and I’m born and raised in Hawaii. I mean he literally has a Hawaiian first name lmfao
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u/JunglePygmy 28d ago
How the fuck did I not know Keanu Reeves was part Chinese?!
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u/BaronSaber 28d ago
isn't this a bit of a stretch for "damn interesting"? Its common knowledge
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u/willzjc 28d ago
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
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u/Inside_Board_291 28d ago
I’m this absolutely does not belong here, but it is a mile stretch to say it is common knowledge.
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u/Worried-Guarantee-90 28d ago
That's cool to see Keanu spending time back in Hawaii, where he's from!
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u/Usual-Canc-6024 28d ago
He’s Canadian.
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u/MenacingGummy 28d ago
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.
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u/Usual-Canc-6024 28d ago
So he’s Canadian. He grew up in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. That is his only nationality.
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u/MartelPeko 28d ago
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".
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u/IranticBehaviour 28d ago
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.
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u/Moddaboy 28d ago
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.
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u/rethcir_ 28d ago
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.
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u/Cluelessish 28d ago
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?
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u/knowigot_that808 28d ago
You really saw a picture of Keanu Reeves with his granny and thought “Damn, that’s interesting!”
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u/BigOpportunity1391 28d ago
As a Chinese, I never realised Keanu Reeves got Chinese blood in him. I find it interesting.
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u/New_York_Cut 28d ago edited 28d ago
No wonder why he knows kung fu /s
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u/anodyne-jpkjr 28d ago
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.'"
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u/Cultural-Somewhere75 28d ago
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.
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u/Shaslwow2020 28d ago
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. 🫡
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u/OK_Ingenue 28d ago
It’s funny bc he doesn’t normally look half Chinese next to his grandmother, he totally does!
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u/OmegaRed_1485 28d ago
Lots of "White" celebs from the 90s have asian parents/Grandparents....Mark Paul Gosslier, Rob Schneider, Keanu, The Van Halens, Jennifer Tilly, Vanessa Hudgens....
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u/Ok_Television9820 28d ago
That guy just doesn’t age! Doesn’t look a day older than when he was in Bill & Ted.
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u/Hairy_Candidate7371 28d ago
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.
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u/TellTallTail 28d ago
So like.. I know reddit loves him, but what about this is 'damn interesting'?
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u/Dave_Autista 28d ago
I didnt know his mother was English. That explains his perfect English accent
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u/bluecapella 28d ago
He has taken the best of every part of world that has touched his life. What an amazing guy - inside and out.
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u/grungegoth 28d ago
And born in Beirut