Keanu Reeves
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | My thanks for clicking and listening along. |
| 0:06.8 | Today, I got a good one for you, not just because he's a name you love, |
| 0:09.8 | but the movies you love, but because he's a guy you don't hear from, I don't think. |
| 0:14.4 | In depth, that often. |
| 0:16.6 | It's Keanu Reeves, whose career launched 30 years ago. |
| 0:20.0 | Can you believe 30 years ago, Bill and Ted's excellent inventor came out in 1989, |
| 0:25.0 | turned him into a star. |
| 0:26.6 | He went from there to movies like Point Break, of course, Speed, The Monster Hit, |
| 0:30.8 | with Sandra Bullock, made $350 million. |
| 0:33.4 | I think I'm like a $30 million budget. |
| 0:35.9 | Also, of course, the Matrix movies where he dodges bullets and slow motion as Neo. |
| 0:40.6 | And now he's here today to talk about the third installment in his John Wick movies, |
| 0:45.2 | John Wick 3, Parabellum. |
| 0:47.5 | Really enjoyed sitting down with Keanu Reeves. |
| 0:49.6 | Again, a guy I hadn't met before, a guy I don't think you see all over the place on TV. |
| 0:55.0 | And he was happy to sit down and talk about his career. |
| 0:58.2 | You'll hear as we dren toward some personal stuff, not his favorite subject area, |
| 1:04.3 | not talking about celebrity stuff and TMZ stuff, but just even asking about his reputation as a |
| 1:10.2 | super generous guy. |
| 1:11.9 | There are these legendary Hollywood stories of him renegotiating his Matrix deal so the crew |
| 1:16.9 | could get more money, less for him. |
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