Vulture Tells Keanu Reeves About ‘Sad Keanu’ — and He Approves!

• Vulture: You're taking over the Internet. Have you seen all the "Sad Keanu" stuff out there?
• Keanu: My publicist showed me the photo, but no.
• Vulture: There's not one photo. There are millions. You're Photoshopped next to kittens and into Pulp Fiction and next to the cast of The Breakfast Club, and in a million different ways. Have you seen those?
• Keanu: Oh, that's funny! No, no, I haven't seen them.
• Vulture: There are millions, really. Google "Sad Keanu." You haven't?
• Keanu: [Laughs.] No.
• Vulture: 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.
• Keanu: Wow. So, what, now they're putting me next to other objects?
• Vulture: Yes! For instance, right now I'm looking at you in some Banksy graffiti, you next to a panda.
• Keanu: That's so funny.
• Vulture: You with a cheerleader, but you don't notice her …
• Keanu: Oh, that's funny. So they like take paparazzi pictures and re-contextualize them? Funny.
• Vulture: Exactly.
• Keanu: Well, it sounds like harmless, good clean fun.
• Vulture: What do you make of how your fandom is changing?
• Keanu: 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.
• Vulture: Given the options …
• Keanu: 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.]