Random Proof That Keanu Reeves Is Nicest Guy In Hollywood (20 items)

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  (#5) He Feels Bad That His Band, Dogstar, Was Dubbed A 'Movie Star's Vanity Project'

  In a 2019 GQ profile, Reeves opened up about his early '90s music career. He and Rob Mailhouse started an alt-rock band called Dogstar. Reeves and Mailhouse bonded over hockey at a local supermarket. The pair linked up and created Dogstar with Reeves on the bass and Mailhouse on the drums. Reeves told GQ that they once played at the Milwaukee Metal Fest alongside hardcore punks like Murphy’s Law. Dogstar played a Grateful Dead cover and Reeves recalls, "[The audience was] just like, F*ck you, you suck. I had the biggest grin on my face, man." 

  Reeves also explained that he feels bad for subjecting his band mates to the repercussions of his movie star status. Although he says the band may have had a better chance if they "were better," he also contributes part of their failure to the fact that people often looked as Dogstar as "a movie star's vanity project." 
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  (#1) He Refused To Mistreat Winona Ryder On The Set Of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

  In a profile by the Sunday Times, Winona Ryder reflected on filming Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992 with director Francis Ford Coppola, and co-stars Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves. Apparently, Coppola urged the actors to be verbally harmful toward Ryder to elicit an emotional reaction. According to Ryder, however, Reeves and Hopkins refused. 

  Ryder recalled the scene in which she and Dracula (Gary Oldman) are lying on a bed together: 

  I'm supposed to be crying. Literally, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu... Francis was trying to get all of them to yell things that would make me cry. But Keanu wouldn't, Anthony wouldn't... the more it happened, I was like... It just didn't work. I was, like, really? It kind of did the opposite.

  Ryder prefaced that she and Coppola have mended their relationship, and she and Reeves have maintained a close friendship for many years. 
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  (#16) He Drove 50 Miles Out Of His Way To Take A Stranger Home

  Not many movie stars would drive 50 miles out of their way to take a total stranger home. But, of course, Keanu Reeves did, according to Redditor /u/lovemyax:

  A friend of mine told me that she was once stranded on the side of a highway outside LA when her jalopy broke down. She had no cell phone (that was before most people had cell phones) and no way to call for help. Then a nice black porsche pulls over and as you can guess, it was Keanu. He tried to help her jump start the car and when it didn't work, he called AAA for her. When they towed her car, he offered her to drive her home, which she accepted. He drove about 50 miles out of his destination just to drive her home. She told me she hoped he would hit on her but he didn't, he was just a gentleman, dropped her at her house, gave her his phone number and told her to call him if she needed further help.
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  (#4) He Gave A Profound Answer When Asked What Happens After We Die

  While promoting John Wick: Chapter 3 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Keanu Reeves appropriately answered the unanswerable question of what happens after we pass on. Colbert proposed the question to which Reeves took a deep breath and said, "I know that the ones who love us will miss us." 

  With nothing more to say, Colbert shook the John Wick star's hand and sent him on his way. 
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  (#2) He Told An Entire Audience They Were Breathtaking After A Stranger Shouted A Compliment At Him

  Reeves surprised audience members at Xbox's pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles in June 2019 to announce his role in Cyberpunk 2077. At one point during his presentation he says, "The feeling of being there, of walking the streets of the future is really going to be breathtaking." 

  One of the excited viewers shouts back, "You're breathtaking," to which the actor laughs nervously and stumbles before telling the fan, "You’re breathtaking. We’re all breathtaking." 
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  (#14) He Doesn't Throw His Name Around, Even When He Should

  In December 2014, Keanu Reeves arrived at the wrap party of his movie Exposed (the film's original title was Daughter of God), but the bouncer did not recognize the star. Instead of making a scene, Reeves patiently got in line to wait in the rain outside the New York City club that hosted the party.

  "Keanu was really patiently waiting," chauffeur Ronny Sunshine told Page Six. "I don’t think he said anything to the bouncer, like, ‘I’m Keanu.’ No one recognized him."

  The chauffeur added: "Keanu looks very ordinary. It was raining, but he just waited for his two friends to come. He didn’t act like he had money. I just thought he was a rock ’n’ roller."

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