Man, myth: in the incomprehensible private world of Keanu Reeves

In 1993 River Phoenix died of an accidental drug overdose—another painful thing Reeves didn’t want to talk about, but he spoke fondly of his friend and My private Idaho co-star

“I liked his company. Very,” Reeves told Perekotifield in 2000. “And enjoyed his mind, his spirit and his soul. We brought good to each other. He was a real original thinker. He was not status quo. In nothing”.

As for Phoenix’s death, “it’s something he thinks about all the time, something he never really talks about,” a friend of Reeves said. told People. “Friends know not to go there with him.”

(Reeves later told Guardian that it wasn’t aging that made him think more about the people he’d lost throughout his life. “It’s always with you, but as it ebbs and flows,” he said. When asked if he was thinking of anyone in particular, he replied: “A lot of people.”)

In 1994, his father, Samuel, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug possession in Hawaii, but was released after two. “Jesus, man. No, the story with me and my dad is quite difficult. It’s full of pain, grief, heavy losses and all that,” he said RS around that time. In 1995, he told Vanity fair, when asked why he didn’t want to know more about his dad’s case, “Why would I want to know something I didn’t know?” He called the situation “pretty unbelievable” and that was it.