Keanu Reeves' Top 10 Moments! | The Graham Norton Show

Not many people know this about Keanu Reeves, you trained as a ballroom dancer. No, no, yes, you did, no, no, yes, you did, no, no, I took a ballroom dancing lesson, there you go, what did I just say, not training? Wait, but why didn't you decide to want to learn ballroom dancing? um it sounded fun, I'm sorry it wasn't, it was good, it was exciting, in fact I remember one of the first lessons I had when I did the waltz with the partner and oh my gosh, I mean I got high, it was amazing to do for the first time and she led me and, oh, excuse me, I think it was incredibly exciting to move through space like that and yeah, it was, it was, it was pretty special and then I did the foxtrot and some tango and yeah you were still like that absolutely no, no, no, it wasn't fun, yes, yes, when I trained for the first Matrix movie, right, they had some kind of training for us, we trained for four months and for four.

For months I had worked with the other actors and he couldn't hit anyone, no one could hit, it was all about safety and then the first day of filming the guy tells me, okay, kick him. I said, yeah, kick him, hit him, I was stunned. person, but it was just funny that you guys trained me for four months and I didn't do it and then I couldn't hit him. I thought I couldn't hit him and then finally the trick. Just look yes. Don't hit me, we have to keep doing this, get this over with and we're done, look that's true, he could have cut your head off, you're a fan aren't you?, yeah, you thought he was going to be here?

Yes, I did, I'm so sorry, so I wouldn't have come looking for you. You're in a beautiful white box, so, and beautifully lit, so let's do it, the first Matrix movie, you know, when we went to see it. We got it, we were blown away, it was amazing, but when you read the script, could you know things like suspended animation and bullet time and stuff? Did all of that make sense to you when reading a script? I mean, it really made sense. when I met Lana and Lily um and they

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ed me a preview of Bullet Time and, you know, for me it was really exciting to be a part of something that was new to film, you know, changing perspective. over time and all the kind of CG support, that that image, that event, yeah, for me it was cool just knowing that you can dodge bullets in this movie, you're on a horse and that was again your idea. it was another Vision yeah I had another Vision after chapter two John Wick is running out of Central Park and I said Chad I have a vision and he said what Keanu and I said I want to ride a horse why don't I ride a horse , I'm trying to escape and he said that's a good idea and then the training started because with John Wick he can't just ride a horse, yeah, I have to get off the chair that you're supposed to fall under, holding onto the handle excuse me , okay and then he shoots them, um, but uh, but when we were training, I couldn't really do it and I fell, um, but since you do it, then they had to create something to make it safe and so they did. this contraption that was like a truck with some beams and then a knight on a wire, so they picked me up in case I fell off the horse while we were in the streets and that happened a couple of times, the horse took off and I was like falling and then they picked me up and, but uh, that was nice if you try to imagine what Keanu looked like at 16.

Oh no, you're doing this, yes we are, the strange thing is that you look exactly the same, no, did you? you do? This is Keanu's age, I think 16, 17. Doing a commercial for Coca-Cola, yeah, it was very important, actually for me, it's one of my first jobs and it was very important here, you're okay, enjoy who He is your coach. my dad was the American commercial who was the Canadian commercial and that was one of my first experiences where I actually had the director, you know where you have to drink the drink and they keep saying no, it's not like that, you know, and you're there for an hour and it's like you're on a desert island that you're dying to die for, first you see the line Coca-Cola no and then it went on and on until it finally arrived anyway this is something because I thought it shouldn't be America because I saw that several times now you lose the race like you drink a curling iron, you two could lose Jack here.

I know you're a big fan of Keanu's movies like I'm a big fan of yours. I love John Wick Bill and Ted Matrix. obviously you are also a man who is not afraid of a sequel, but one of my favorite movies of all time is speed, why did you slow down too? I didn't respond to the script. I really wanted to work with Sandra Bullock and, uh, you just know I really love playing Jack Travis, you know, I love speed and it was like, okay, a bus, okay, we're leaving, but now it's on a liner, yeah, speed, liner, speed, I don't feel the noise of the ocean, but anyway, it was really the time of my life and where was the script and stuff.

I wasn't against any of the artists I've been involved with. the project, but at the time I'm sure we've all had this kind of feeling sometimes when things just don't feel right and yeah, and that's how I felt and it was almost like you were in real life. dodging a bullet, so, that's good, talk about the aftermath, a lot of emotion or well, maybe it's true Bill and Ted three, yeah, okay, give it a label, it's still alive, this is something that didn't happen, you talked Of this, yes, yes, the writers had a story. um and we're trying to do it yeah so where are they building Ted Knox?

They must be in their 50s now, yeah, yeah, that would be Bill and 10 in their 50s. I mean, that makes me laugh right there, like what happened to These Guys, um, but there was a cool story, it's basically supposed to They have to write a song to save the world and they haven't, so the pressure of having to save the world, you know, their marriages are falling apart, their kids are kind. of being mad at them and then someone comes from the future and tells them that if they don't write the song it's just not the world now it's the universe and then they have to save the universe because you know, time is breaking and uh, so, pasta elements, that person over there, yes, three and you're on it.

I can't be in a movie with him, you know those movies, okay, find someone, some clothes. I'll go in the air, the guitar is you're that something, if you're ever in a bar and a guitar song comes on, people just look at you like come in, he goes yeah, yeah, which is cool in the sense that he's still alive, you know? Could you make it so you say accident? So yeah, do that. OK OK. I'm going to use this as if I'm training, as if, you're making a movie, yeah, bad, bad, Keanu Reeves, that was terrible with your mother, my mother, your mother.

And she was English, right? Yes, and she was a costume designer, yes she was, yes, but apparently we have a photo, oh my god, I know she designed what Dolly is wearing in this wow, I love this

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, but this outfit. She was at your house, oh yeah, I wore that for Halloween, didn't I? Hey, I mean, how come there was some room? Yeah, where did you go? Where did you like it? Did you go door to door? Did you cheat on him and treat him well? I wasn't 14. You know I was 16. Whatever I did, I got on public transportation, but the thing is, I didn't have the shoes, so I had all that.

He had ears. He had the bow tie. I had the blouse. I didn't have the calves and then it was the tights, I didn't shave my legs and I was wearing these really ratty sneakers and then I was on the streetcar going to that Halloween party at the performing arts high school that I went to and you had this with you I was wearing clothes of winter I was there I thought you should have this video so people know how cool your costume was I know it was well made yeah no no come on amazing where?

Did you find this? It's mine. We're used to seeing them on Mean Streets, but this time John Wick goes global. Is it actually the Sahara desert? Yes, it is an extraordinary place. It was the first time I was there so when we see you walking in the desert that's you in the Sahara that's me and the Sahara with Halle Berry now I would say even tonight is not a bad day even tonight you are better dressed to walk through the Sahara than because you like lace Dressed shoes are not a good idea, I know, but it's John Wick who has to change, wouldn't he take off his tie?

No, no, we talk like, you know, he wraps his coat around his head, it doesn't work for him at all. survival techniques no, no, John Wick is walking in the desert, you meet Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry, so you have to think how they could upstage each other. These dogs are incredible, they are spectacular now. I don't want to spare anyone a blush. I don't think this is a spoiler, but there's a lot of ball biting that happens, yeah, in the movie, yeah, it's attack dogs that bite balls, balls, okay, okay, oh, right now they just put a little bit of cheddar cheese. there, how do you get a dog to do that with cheddar cheese? dogs love cheddar cheese sausage and cheese yes that's how you train your dogs to do anything sausage and cheese you don't want them to bite you harder you want protection you know like you didn't want attract them, did you have stunt balls, but they're so sweet, they're so smart, um and yeah, and once we get into the action, it's like Foo the dog, so we have like Carfu and John?

Wick gunfu now there's dog food, so they become part of the action in it and even though you're very famous, you ride a motorcycle, right? Yes, yes, but you really like it is that your main way of getting around , yes, more or less, yes. little Norton Commando yes, English twin sorry, you just said, you just said a Norton Commander on your lap because I can tell you that at least one person sitting very close to you is imagining exactly the right essay. That's my boy, the jokes write themselves. You're not going to go there, but you fall off bikes a lot.

Yes, I've had a few. You know, it's kind of strange. I have had good and bad luck. You are alive, that is good luck and bad luck. I have a false tooth I have a huge scar here I have a, I guess, a plate on my neck about this, but that's not all just motorcycles, but yeah, I got off the bike a few times, yeah, but no. There was a time when you marked your leg, yeah, that was when a car pulled up in front of me and I was trying to decide this was right after I had the tag on my neck and I was deciding so I was .

I was about to hit the car because I started to turn, but then the car saw me and started moving and then stopped and then I thought, "Oh man, what am I getting?" So I was trying to decide whether to drop the bike. or jump off the bike and go over the car and then when I realized it was all over I took the bumper off his car and ended up sitting on the ground and then that bike was lying there and then they cut my tooth in the middle and there was blood in my mouth and then the guy came over and he was freaking out, but I was in shock, so I was like, "Okay, I just was getting nervous while I was sitting in my chair." The skin was open on my shin and Bone White is very white yeah so I kept touching it and my friend without it look how white it is then this woman that came up said everything was fine and then she was like there and the paramedics and she said: Keanu Reeves and him: Can I have your autograph?

Thank you.