Whoa! Keanu Reeves Before The Matrix

Whoa! Keanu Reeves Before The Matrix

Beginning November 21
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Whoa! Keanu Reeves Before The Matrix

It may be difficult to remember today, so long has he been enshrined as Hollywood royalty, but once Keanu Reeves was considered a rather unlikely leading man: that odd name suggesting of hippie parents, the hard-to-place ethnicity out-of-place in lily-white ’80s Hollywood, the singular cadence of his line readings… And yet, by the time he landed the lead role in the Wachowskis’ world-conquering 1999 The Matrix, Keanu had put together a resume that showed much more than the “flair for spaced out clowning” Pauline Kael noted in 1990. He’d been a street hustler (My Own Private Idaho), a deep cover cop (Point Break), a Victorian-era solicitor (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and a Florida lawyer (The Devil’s Advocate), and while the screen’s Ted “Theodore” Logan undeniably had a knack for playing dumb, his choice of roles showed him to be anything but. A trip back in time to pay homage to The Great One.