Keanu Reeves, 58, says his last happy moment was in bed “with my love” Alexandra Grant, 49: “We were smiling, laughing and giggling”
Keanu Reeves, 58, has shed some light on his blossoming romance with his girlfriend, painter Alexandra Grant, 49.
When asked to name his “last moment of bliss,” he said People: ‘A couple of days ago with my love. We were in bed. We were connected.
The John Wick star effervescent: “We were smiling and giggling and giggling. Feeling good. It was really nice to be together.
Alexandra and Keanu first met at a dinner party in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before becoming red carpet official in 2019.
However, in the intervening years, they have tended to protect their privacy and rarely discussed the details of their relationship in public.
Hand in hand: Keanu Reeves, 58, has shed some light on his blossoming romance with his girlfriend, painter Alexandra Grant, 49; photographed last june
‘We were in bed’: Asked to name her ‘last moment of happiness’, she told People: ‘Couple of days ago with my love’
Alexandra found herself on the business end of an internet frenzy when she walked the red carpet with Keanu at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in early November 2019.
“I think every person I’ve ever met called me the first week of November, and that’s fascinating,” he said. british fashion a few months later.
When asked in 2020 about the prospect of marriage, he said: “Love on all levels is very important to my identity.” What do you think of dodging the question?
He added: ‘I don’t think isolation is the way. There is a period of isolation that I do as a painter, but I deeply value the experience of being in relationships.’
By the time they became red carpet official, they had been friends for about a decade and it was reported that Keanu wanted the romance to come out.
They first collaborated in 2011 on Keanu’s book Ode to Happiness, with Alexandra providing the illustrations. The project marked her first book as an artist and her first as a writer.
They worked together again on the actor’s 2016 book Shadows, to which Alexandra once again contributed artwork.
She is his first known girlfriend since Jennifer Syme, who died in a car accident in 2001, less than four months after giving birth to her stillborn baby with Keanu.
Hand in hand: Alexandra found herself on the business end of an internet frenzy when she walked the red carpet with Keanu at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in early November 2019
The old days: In 2010, a photograph of the Matrix star sitting sadly on a park bench surfaced, resulting in the wildly viral ‘Sad Keanu’ meme
In 2010, a photograph of the Matrix star sitting sadly on a park bench surfaced, resulting in the wildly viral ‘Sad Keanu’ meme.
When the meme took off, there was much speculation that her expression was related to the devastating losses she had suffered in the past decade.
However, in a 2021 interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Keanu said that he actually looked sad in the picture because he was feeling hungry.
‘Man, I’m eating a sandwich!’ the movie star said about the image. ‘I was thinking. I had a few things going. I was hungry.’