Keanu Reeves On Sad Keanu

Keanu Reeves was honored with an excellence in acting award (by a group of people who obviously haven't seen his work in Dracula.... or.... Little Buddha.... or Much Ado About Nothing.... or A Walk in the Clouds) at the Woodstock Film Festival, and Vulture used the opportunity to ask him if he was aware that he's the star of the internet meme "Sad Keanu."

Keanu said that his publicist has sort of told him about it, but he didn't know that there are thousands upon thousands of Photoshopped pictures of him looking sad next to everything from Forrest Gump to crying Dawson. The rest of their conversation went like this:

Seriously, though, this is one of the reasons I think one of the big appeals of you as an actor is that people are always straining to figure out what's on your mind, what you're thinking, why you're sad … There's thousands of people doing this.
Wow. So, what, now they're putting me next to other objects?

Yes! For instance, right now I'm looking at you in some Banksy graffiti, you next to a panda.
That's so funny.

You with a cheerleader, but you don't notice her …
Oh, that's funny. So they like take paparazzi pictures and re-contextualize them? Funny.

Exactly.
Well, it sounds like harmless, good clean fun.

What do you make of how your fandom is changing?
I don't know, I haven't seen it. That one, well, I guess, though, when you think of how bad that stuff can go, that sounds like a pretty good clean fun one to have happening.

Given the options …
Yeah, I haven't seen them. But given the scope and scale of what can happen out there, that sounds like an all right one. It sounds conceptually funny. [Laughs.]

But when Sad Keanu laughed, he still managed to do it while frowning with his eyes and crying with his mouth.

And I hope this means that Keanu isn't going to start smiling more. Every time Keanu makes a sadface, a happy John Denver song mysteriously shows up on someone's iTunes library to keep the world's emotions even and that's a good thing. The world needs more John Denver...and Sad Keanu.

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Submitted by kieranx on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:28am.

Good Christ, this is a slow gossip day. Anyone check on Lohan's pulse?

You make me hate my hips! I hate my hips!

Submitted by louise_brooks on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:24am.

Submitted by chana on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 11:49am.

I admire Keanu's career because back in the day Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez were talking shit about Keanu and wondering how the hell be was working with directors like Van Sant and Coppola. Now 25 years late, Keanu is still making movies and Charlie is a high paid sitcom star and wife beater. Emilio who?

Charlie's always been a self-important, entitled asshole.

Submitted by louise_brooks on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:24am.

I could cheer him up...with my lady parts. Don't judge, h8ers.

Submitted by Sandbitch on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:23am.

Sad Keanu internetz sensation PFFFFT

Happy Sucky Fucky internetz sensation!
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Submitted by spankypants on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:21am.

"Re-contextualize" is a big word for Keanu.

Submitted by chana on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:19am.

Submitted by mharker on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:19am.

Aww, I like him for being amused by it. I'd originally pegged him as one of those actors who takes himself too seriously but I guess that's not the case. As for acting, well, as long as he plays the surfer dude or the surfer-ish dude that weird things happen to, he's cool with me.

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Submitted by Vern on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:18am.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

*chanting as always*

Submitted by carefreea on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:18am.

It was funny for a while but it seems silly now, especially as he's aware of it.

I don't particularly rate him as an actor but he seems like a personable chap.

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Submitted by kokoskitten on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:18am.

what celeb in this day and age doesn't obsess over themselves and google everything ? For some reason I buy that he's one that doesn't though...

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Submitted by mike on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:18am.

I don't even get the whole sad bit. You can't read everyone by the expression on their face.

Submitted by Hekki on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:15am.

He's a good sport about it. He gets points for that.

Submitted by Banana Jesus on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:14am.

Excellence in acting? He plays surfer dude in every movie!!! What a stretch! Or maybe they meant his fake southern accent in that Al Pacino movie-the one that kept appearing and disapearing throughout the film-now THATs acting!!!!!