With a reputation as iconic as Keanu Reeves, it’s arduous to think about calling the actor the rest. However apparently he got here dangerously near … Chuck Spadina? That’s if Reeves had listened to his first supervisor, anyway.
The 61-year-old appeared on Jason and Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast this week on Wednesday, Oct. 15 whereas selling his new comedy Good Fortune, which he stars in alongside Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, and Sandra Oh.
Through the episode, Jason requested if he had a “welcome to Hollywood” second when he first started his performing profession.
“I obtained paid once I was like 16, so I used to be knowledgeable actor round 16, 17,” Reeves defined. “I used to be in Toronto, Canada, after which I obtained a supervisor who lived in Los Angeles. And I ended up doing a film of the week in Canada that obtained me an agent in LA.”
“At 20 years previous, I drove in my automotive to Los Angeles. Acquired out of my automotive and my supervisor stated, ‘We wish to change your identify.’ In order that’s like, a welcome to Hollywood [moment],” he continued. “And I keep in mind I used to be strolling on the seashore and I used to be similar to, ‘My identify? What if I alter my identify? What?’”
“My center identify is Charles, so I used to be like, ‘…Chuck?’ And I grew up on a road known as Spadina … Chuck Spadina,” The Matrix star recalled. “After which I used to be one thing Templeton. So then I turned KC Reeves. I used to be credited as KC Reeves.”
Nevertheless, Reeves stated in the end, he couldn’t undergo with it. “So then I’d be in auditions and they’d go, ‘KC Reeves.’ And I wouldn’t even reply,” he added. “Six months later, I used to be like, ‘I’m not doing this.’ That’s a Hollywood second.”
Because it seems, Reeves is certainly credited as “KC Reeves” in a Magical World of Disney made-for-TV film in 1986, in response to his IMDb web page. At that time, he solely had a handful of Canadian tv roles below his belt.
Nevertheless, it might solely be a number of extra years earlier than he landed one of many starring roles in 1989’s Invoice & Ted’s Wonderful Journey, placing him on the map and altering his life without end.
This isn’t the primary time Reeves has opened up about being pressured to vary his identify. Throughout a 2017 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, he recalled floating “Chuck Spadina” to his supervisor, who apparently appreciated that identify even lower than Keanu Reeves.
“So I used to be like, how about Templeton Paige Taylor,” Reeves laughed, to which Fallon interjected, “It’s excellent as a result of the one factor they will say is, ‘Let’s follow Keanu Reeves.’” And the remainder was apparently historical past!
