Not that it means anything, but I happened to see Keanu Reeves in the lobby of the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Vancouver tonight, before and after he took in a screening of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Keanu has been in town for the past month or so playing Klaatu in Scott Derrickson‘s remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951; my comments), and for some reason the first thing I paid attention to was his hair. You never know, with sci-fi movies, whether the actor is going to have to shave his head or grow a goatee or whatever. But Keanu looked like Keanu, and that was that.
I have met and interviewed lots of actors, on film sets and press junkets and whatnot, so the mere presence of celebrity, per se, is not such a big deal to me any more. But those events are usually very controlled and very predictable, so it’s still fun when an accidental sighting like this one comes along.
JAN 10 UPDATE: Click here for a follow-up, with some apparently exclusive news about Keanu’s young co-star, Jaden Smith.
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