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Keanu Reeves - extraterrestrial & Interview
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Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 28/11/2008
The star talks to Will Lawrence about how he approached his performance as a visiting alien in the remake of a sci-fi classic
Keanu Reeves wants to know how many years I have. It's an unusual expression, akin to an English-language translation of the French "Quel âge avez-vous?" Maybe this should come as no great surprise - after all, Reeves grew up in Canada.
Keanu Reeves: 'Sci-fi's just one of the things I can do'
"So, c'mon," he insists. "How many?" I fib a little. "Thirty-eight," I exaggerate; I'm adding a few years to bring our ages closer together. "You're looking good for it, man," he says. Of course I am - I'm a fair bit younger.
"It's funny, you are going to get to 40 soon - it's like a club with a secret handshake," he says. "I remember my doctor telling me to enjoy my forties, because I'll still have my physical capabilities but also my life experiences. We should take advantage of that before the physical capabilities slip away."
I meet Reeves in a New York hotel room, which houses a number a small telescopes, each one overlooking the southern tip of Central Park. Last night was his 44th birthday - "It was quiet, I spent it with family and friends" - and today he's talking about his latest film, a re-imagining of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which he plays the role of Klaatu, an alien who lands in Central Park. The little telescopes in the hotel room, I note, would have afforded potential onlookers a fine view of his spaceship.
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"Actually, I'm not sure people would want to see this Klaatu," counters Reeves. "He's a little different from the original character, who was played by Michael Rennie in the 1951 classic. He was pretty idealised in the first film. He had Christian, spiritual overtones and he had a naturalism to him. He was more human than human. I am a little less naturalistic."
In both the original movie and the remake - the latter also features Jennifer Connelly, John Cleese and Will Smith's 10-year-old son, Jaden - Klaatu arrives on Earth with a warning. The first film was released during the first decade of the Cold War, and reflected the concerns of the time: nuclear armageddon. The remake, however, picks up on environmental themes. Here Klaatu is a friend of the Earth, not a friend of mankind, and if he kills the latter, the former will survive.
"That's how he thinks at the outset, but Klaatu discovers his humanity during the film - that is the journey for him," says Reeves. "So I played him as a man who has an alien inside him, but he is embodied by human flesh and that changes him. I picture the human body as a kind of container for him. It was funny - because of the way I was playing him, I didn't have a lot of facial cues, so when I was thinking about the character, I'd just look at people and I would answer them, but I wouldn't do anything with my face. I realised that it was a little off-putting so when we weren't shooting, I had to remember to smile. I enjoyed it a lot."
It seems Reeves is taking his doctor's advice: he's enjoying his forties. Traditionally, the fourth decade can prove a difficult one for actresses; for actors, the real test comes in their thirties. Reeves, however, survived, thanks largely to his lead performances in the three Matrix films, which, along with boosting his bank balance, established him as a sci-fi superstar (he has also featured in the likes of Johnny Mnemonic, Constantine and A Scanner Darkly), a reputation that his latest film will only enhance.
"I grew up liking science fiction - it's almost like a Trojan horse," he says. "You can put any other genre inside. You can do a romance like Blade Runner, you can do action romance like Star Wars; an existential art movie like Tarkovsky's Solaris; or a comedy like Spaceballs. It really translates well to a lot of different genres.
"As to whether I get stereotyped for doing sci-fi, I don't know. For me, sci-fi's just one of the things I can do."
In his long and varied career - he began on Canadian TV in 1984 - Reeves has not always won critical plaudits. The stoner-dude he played in the two Bill & Ted films (1989 and 1991) cast a shadow over his later work, and some of his performances - notably in Point Break (1991) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - were justifiably accused of being wooden. But his performances have matured with age. He has worked with some of the world's biggest-name directors, including Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, 1988), Coppola (Bram Stoker's Dracula), Bertolucci (Little Buddha, 1994), Gus Van Sant (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1993) and, of course, the Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy, 1999-2003).
"I have no idea what I would have done if I hadn't been actor," he says. "I've been doing this professionally since I was 16. I've never really - knock on wood - had to look for another job and hopefully I won't have to in the future. I played hockey when I was an adolescent, and maybe that was a crossroads. Professional hockey or the high-school play? I took the high-school play."
The high-school play has since taken Reeves to the apex of the Hollywood A-list. He has a home in the Hollywood Hills and another in Manhattan not far from our hotel, although he tries to keep himself out of the media spotlight. Notoriously press-shy, he gives short shrift to personal questions.
This, however, should come as no great surprise; he has endured a turbulent private life. In 2001 his girlfriend Jennifer Syme was killed in a car accident. Syme had given birth to the couple's daughter Ava in 1999, but she was stillborn. The two are buried side by side in a Los Angeles cemetery. He has never spoken about the events publicly.
Nowadays, he confesses to an interest in travel, especially if it involves his Norton motorcycle. "I have a bike and it's how I get around. There are so many paparazzi in Los Angeles now, it's like: here is Keanu filling up his bike with gas, here is Keanu at a stoplight on his bike! But I got the chance to travel a little bit with the bike this summer in France - I took the Route Napoléon and I went over the mountains in the Ardèche."
His trip to France also allowed him to indulge his interest in wine. "I'm not a connoisseur, though I do enjoy a good drop now and then. For me it's not only the taste but also the moment that you have the wine. So I have a sentimental favourite, which is a 1982 French vintage, a fine year from a fine grower and a couple of fine moments.
"An interest in wine, eh? I guess that's something that happens in your forties!" He smiles. "Like my doctor said, I should enjoy them."
'The Day the Earth Stood Still' is out on Dec 12
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Photos of Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly at
a premiere of "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
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More Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and more cast and crew at Premiere of
"The Day The Earth Stood Still"
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The 'Ottawa Citizen' Newspaper ARTS page F1 shows a comentary on 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on the whole bottom third of the page, speaking of the Film and of Keanu Reeves
Then on the ARTS Page F8 there is a large Photo of Keanu (different than the online version photo)and the whole top half of that page speaks about TDESS and of course of Keanu and also a commentary from Beverly Hills, California about the New and Old differences in the remake of The Day The Earth Stool Still.
Online at the Ottawa Citizen at www.ottawacitizen.com
there is this commentary on TDESS.
The headline and writer follows.....
Reeves otherworldly in The Day The Earth Stood Still
By Jamie PortmanDecember 9, 2008
Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still (20th Century Fox)
Photograph by : 20th Century FoxBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The Day The Earth Stood Still is a science-fiction movie about the need for humans to change before they completely destroy the planet.
Canada’s Keanu Reeves is the star, playing a visiting alien named Klaatu who comes to earth to warn its inhabitants that they face annihilation unless they halt their mistreatment of the environment.
So, given the circumstances, the question seems an entirely appropriate one to ask Reeves in the course of a news conference.
Is there anything in himself that he would like to change?
“No, I’m perfect,” Reeves replies without skipping a beat.
Reeves may have evolved into a superstar, but there are still occasional glimpses of the cheeky kid who used to show up at media sessions 20 years ago with greasy hair, motorcycle jacket and grime-encrusted jeans and tease reporters with flip and often uncommunicative answers.
He’s looking more sedate today with his combed hair, carefully groomed beard and dark blazer. But as always, he’s still a person of few words, with his colleagues at the table -- director Scott Derrickson and co-stars Jennifer Connelly and Jon Hamm -- doing far more talking today.
When a reporter asks them all what they’re doing for the environment, Derrickson is quick to point out that he recycles garbage, installed a couple of solar panels in his home, and got rid of his SUV. Connelly also recycles, turns off light switches and drives a Prius.
There is no audible answer from Reeves -- although this doesn’t mean he hasn’t demonstrated his commitment to a greener planet. Two years ago, he and Alanis Morissette were co-narrators of The Great Warming, the impressive 2006 Canadian documentary about a planet in peril.
In The Day The Earth Stood Still, which opens Friday, the still boyish 44-year-old actor is reprising one of the most iconic characters in the annals of Hollywood science fiction. The film is a remake of legendary director Robert Wise’s 1951 Cold War classic, still fondly remembered today and just reissued on DVD. That earlier film saw a grave and imposing Klaatu, played by Michael Rennie, emerge from his space ship, accompanied by a giant robotic bodyguard named Gort, to plead the cause of peace and to warn humanity of dire consequences if they don’t turn their backs on violence.
In the new version, scripted by David Scarpa, the focus has shifted to the environment, and humankind’s systematic destruction of the planet. Reeves’ emissary, who has assumed a human shape thanks to cloning techniques perfected back home, needs to be convinced that mankind is worth saving, and the only person who seems capable of doing the job of convincing him is a brilliant scientist and widowed mother played by Connelly.
Derrickson says he was skeptical about the project at first, noting that The Day The Earth Stood Still is one of his two favourite Robert Wise movies. (The other is The Haunting.) But then he saw value in an updated version dealing with a more contemporary social issue like the environment.
“It’s been 57 years since the first one and you’d better have a good reason to remake a classic film,” Derrickson says. “But I think there is something different about this film as opposed to other classics which are so much more known by the general movie-going audience, and I think there is a value to telling this story to a general movie-going population that, for the most part, won’t have seen the original. They won’t know that story. That was the motivation and the approach was to try to respect the original and respect the fan base and the fact that it is a sacred movie to a lot of people.”
Reeves briefly adds that he had similar concerns at the beginning and then said OK: “It would be fun to play an alien and it’s a worthwhile story and that’s when I came onboard.”
Furthermore, he was fascinated by the idea of playing someone who’s not fully alien.
“That was part of the interesting side of the role . . . he starts alien and then becomes quite human.”
But how did Reeves manage to retain some unworldly characteristics?
“It really came to me through the obligations of the character in the story. It was in the script. That’s really where I worked from -- the character. There are certain cues. When he’s born and the first time he starts to speak, he tries to drink a glass of water and says this body is going to take some getting used to. It was just the concept of his separation of his consciousness and his body. What else? I just approached it like any other role. What does it want?”
Reeves was more forthcoming several months ago in comments made to the film’s unit publicist during shooting. “The situation has reached a crisis point where the life of the planet itself is at stake because humans are killing it,” he said back then. “Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether or not human beings are capable of changing their behaviour, or if the ‘problem’ needs to be eliminated.”
Meanwhile, Connelly says she felt a great sense of responsibility in taking on this project, not only because of the subject matter but because she would be attempting to fill the shoes of Patricia Neal, who starred in the original.
“She’s aware of what the stakes are,” Connelly says. “I liked Patricia Neal’s character in the original -- she’s open-minded and a very strong, freethinking individual. I thought it was important to carry over that bravery.”
Reeves makes it clear that thanks to previous films like the Matrix trilogy and Johnny Mnemonic, he’s comfortable in the world of science fiction.
“I love the genre and I approach it like any other film. I guess that’s the short answer. I think science fiction provides great storytelling opportunities. In the past, I’ve had the fortune to be part of good stories in science-fiction genre films.”
But his love for Shakespeare also continues unabated. Reeves, who appeared in the film version of Much Ado About Nothing, and portrayed Hamlet at Winnipeg’s Manitoba Theatre Centre several years ago, says that if he could go back in history and be friends with someone, there would be no doubt about his choice.
“I’m going to take the thespian route and say William Shakespeare.”
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Transatlantic box office success for Keanu
Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008 12:53
The Day the Earth Stood Still tops box office charts on both sides of Atlantic Printer friendly version Keanu Reeves' new film The Day the Earth Stood Still is top of the box office charts on both sides of the Atlantic, it has been confirmed.
The sci-fi remake debuted at number one in the US after its opening weekend on release, having earned an estimated $31 million (£20.6 million).
And Scott Derrickson's film has now claimed the top spot in the UK with £2.75 million.
A remaining of the 1951 classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still sees Reeves as Klaatu, the ambassador for an alien race that arrives suddenly on Earth and jeopardises the future of the planet.
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I have no idea whats happening with the pages but anyways, I wanted to tell you that I went to see Keanu in
"The Day The Earth Stood Still"
The remake was really good and Keanu played the part of the alien Klaatu to a tea.
There have been a lot of reviews about Keanu's acting in this film, but people seem to forget that he was acting as an Alien who had been just born and he knew what his job was that he had to do and why he came to the Planet Earth ...this film was not a Romantic movie, he played the part of an Alienm one almost without feeling and of course he was new to the ways of the human people but he most certainly had great understanding and he could see what humans were like.
I liked the movie and it was great seeing Keanu in that Character but I much more would love to see him in a romantic or Action part.
Just my opinion.....
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