“You took me on the ride of my life”: Keanu Reeves Changed ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Actor Drew Barrymore’s Life on the Night of Her 16th Birthday
No one has ever had a terrible thing to say about actor Keanu Reeves, who is without a doubt one of the sweetest and most adored performers in the business. As unexpected as it may sound, he is also one of the actors who has no haters in the business or the audience. His co-stars, especially Drew Barrymore, who played a lead role in Charlie Angles, always had positive things to say about him.
During one of the episodes of her now-successful and well-known talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show, she recounted one experience involving Reeves that she said she could never forget. They first met when she was 11 years old on the sets of a movie he was working on.
Keanu Reeves made Drew Barrymore the happiest on her 16th birthday
Keanu Reeves appeared on an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, back in December 2020. The actress Drew Barrymore recalled an incident from her childhood, in which she said that Reeves made her the happiest person at the time.
During their conversation, Barrymore reminisced about her 16th birthday and shared with Keanu Reeves that,
“I was at this club and it was my 16th birthday, and you came in—this is the memory I have of it, if you have anything to add or change please let me know—and you walked in and you grabbed my hand and you took me outside and you put me on your motorcycle. And we drove at the warp speed of my life.”
The actress continued to add that “You took me on the ride of my life. And I was so free, I was such a free human being”, whereas Reeves said that he couldn’t recall the encounter, but she noted that it was just one of the moments where she just remembered loving life and being happy.
Barrymore told Reeves at the time that she holds onto the memory so dear to her because the older they get the harder it is to get to that feeling. She added that she is now realizing that one cannot have a better Sweet 16 than being put on his motorcycle and having the moment where they understand what freedom is.
Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves recall working on Babes in Toyland
The actors had initially met on the sets of the 1986 Christmas movie Babes in Toyland when she was 11 years old and Barrymore described her experience as an obscure masterpiece. She said they had so much fun making the movie, which Reeves called the experience crazy, and remembered their co-stars Richard Mulligan and Jill Schoelen.
Drew Barrymore continued to share, “I’m just looking back from 1986 until now, we have both had the privilege and fortune to keep going—what a blessing that is, You’re someone I think of, too, as being so gracious about it.”
The actress also mentioned the incident when she spoke to the actors who voiced the characters of the SpongeBob movie in 2020 as she said that she has one thing in common with the actor- Keanu Reeves. She explained,
“He showed up at my 16th birthday party and took me on a motorcycle ride I will never forget. We just blasted through the streets. It was at night and the streets were empty, and it was one of those moments where I’ll never forget it.”
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Keanu Reeves on voicing Sage in SpongeBob
The nicest guy in the industry voiced the character of Sage in the movie SpongeBob and during a conversation with People, Reeves noted that he does not mind if his fans ask him to voice in person. He explained at the time,
“I can honestly say I don’t get sick of it! Not once in 20 years! I love the character, and after two decades of on impressionable young minds, SpongeBob has been very impactful on folks’ lives. It’s always fun for the cast to watch people’s reactions when we do the voices “live“, or when we insert a fan’s name into a famous line from the show.”
Drew Barrymore asked the actor about the moment when he feels free the most, to which he said that he feels free when he is acting, noting that he loves what happens after someone says action and they begin and they are in the moment. He further added that the actors might have prepared a lot and they have their past and history and what they are trying to do in the story that they are trying to tell to the audience is what he finds the most fun.
Source: ENews
