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This episode of our podcast Scandals returns to the unexpected love story of Keanu Reeves and American artist Alexandra Grant, who has been his partner since 2019.
On November 2, 2019, to everyone’s surprise, Keanu Reeves appeared on the red carpet at the LACMA ceremony in Los Angeles with a woman. Her name is Alexandra Grant, she’s a visual artist, and we quickly learn that they’ve known each other for at least nine years, since he chose her as the illustrator for his book on happiness. Air for Happiness in 2011.
A formalization that takes Hollywood by surprise
But what everyone remembers the day after their appearance is that she is not like the women we are used to seeing in the arms of Hollywood actors… She has white hair. At that moment, it was a bit like the canonization of the “internet groom”. Everyone thinks Keanu Reeves is really cool because he’s dating a woman his own age. When in fact he is 47 years old, 8 years younger than him… Alexandra Grant then told the magazine: Vogue: that the next day his entire phone book called him saying: “Wait, are you really dating Keanu Reeves?”
A love story that lasts
After making their first public appearance, the couple appeared hand-in-hand on New York’s 5th Avenue, laughing and even chatting on the red carpet at the 2022 gala in Los Angeles. kiss in front of photographers. came a year later. In a rare interview with People magazine in early 2023, and when the reporter asked him to talk about his last moment of happiness, the actor replied: . We smiled, laughed, giggled. We felt wonderful.” After all, it’s a bit like Keanu Reeves because we’ve never seen him. And the question we can ask ourselves is: the man we’ve always imagined as lonely, introverted, kind, but a little sad, isn’t he really happy with his life for the first time?
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Source: Le Figaro
