'The Matrix Revolutions'

Jada Pinkett Smith is bad and back with a vengeance as the notorious Niobe in "The Matrix Revolutions." "Extra" hooked up with Pinkett Smith where she talked life, love, her new movie, and her main man.

The star told "Extra" how her famous husband, Will, tried to muscle his way in and convince people let him be in the "Matrix." She says, "He was like, ‘Well tell them maybe I could be an agent or something,’ and I was like, 'Make your own meeting for that, this is about Mama right now.'"

And while Will didn't make it into the movie, he and Jada learned the real meaning of "The Matrix." Pinkett Smith says, "The concept of harmony and the necessity of evil and good for balance."

Pinkett Smith knows the true meaning of balance. She has managed to pull off producing a TV show, producing videos, and acting. But she says, "I found my limit. A couple of weeks ago I really thought I was going to have to put myself in the hospital. I was very tired, dehydrated, and I had just had enough."

But it seems Pinkett Smith is invincible. She will be costarring in the upcoming thriller "Collateral" with Tom Cruise. She says, "He's full of electricity, and you just feed off of it. I can't even imagine when you're sitting eye to eye with him."

"The Matrix Revolutions" comes full circle November 5th. And Will gave it two big thumbs up. Pinkett Smith says, "That movie was brilliant."

Keanu's got a new band

Last updated 22 October 2003

Keanu Reeves has got a new band.

He's put Dogstar on the backburner although he won't actually commit to saying it's over.

He's joined forces with Dogstar drummer Rob Mailhouse in a new group and they're already playing to packed houses in LA:

"Dogstar is kinda in hiatus right now. I'm playing in another band right now called Becky, which is great. They've been together for like 10 months. We've been playing around LA, just starting out."

'Matrix Revolutions' hits screens around the world next month. Keanu admits he'll miss his Matrix pals and reckons he had the time of his life making the action packed trilogy:

"The three films and working on them has been some of the best days of my life, as a person and an artist. So I'm very grateful to have been a part of them."

Kampala to Premier the Matrix Revolutions

The Monitor (Kampala)

October 20, 2003
Posted to the web October 20, 2003

The Matrix Revolutions will premiere in Kampala a day earlier than the worldwide premiere. A source at Cineplex says the makers of the film gave them a go ahead owing to the fact that Uganda was a small market that would not jeopardise the film's release.

Meanwhile the film will be released at exactly the same time in 65 countries across the world. This will mean a 6 a.m start for fans in Los Angeles, 9 a.m in New York, 2 p.m in London, 5 p.m in Moscow and 11 p.m in Tokyo on November 5.

It is the first time a film has been released in this way and distributors Warner Brothers say it is to capitalise on the final part of the trilogy's popularity and to ward off piracy. The Matrix Revolutions is the final instalment of the successful sci-fi trilogy starring Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving.

Imax Corporation, which owns the technology behind the format, struck a deal with Warner Bros to simultaneously show the film on 5 November.

The makers of the Matrix films are considering only promoting the third film, Matrix Revolutions, for next year's Oscars over its predecessor The Matrix Reloaded that came out in May. Both films were shot on the same 240-day shoot and Warners, which produced the films, had considered pushing for both of them to be nominated as a single entry. But the academy refused saying the movies were released separately, each with its own marketing campaign. The Oscars will be held on February 29, 2004.

Opera House to host Matrix premiere

By Sophie Tedmanson and Jane Albert
October 21, 2003

IF you've received something sharp, heavy and silver in the mail, don't be alarmed.

It is the exclusive invitation to the premiere of The Matrix Revolutions, an invite that indicates the hype has already begun for the final in the blockbuster sci-fi trilogy, which was filmed mostly in Sydney.

First, on Friday, the unusual invitations arrived - pieces of tin complete with the film's tagline, "Everything that has a beginning has an end", written into its Opera House-style edging in the likeness of the venue for the gala premiere on November 2.

Then, on Sunday night, the unclassified trailer was screened on television, showing the first glimpses of the much-hyped finale featuring the hero, Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, fighting hundreds of replicas of Agent Smith, played with evil glee by Australia's Hugo Weaving.

Unlike the May premiere of The Matrix Reloaded, when its stars were too busy spruiking their film in Cannes to come back to Sydney, the premiere of Revolutions promises to be one of the biggest of the year as Weaving, Reeves and co-star Jada Pinkett Smith reunite on the red carpet.

It is believed to be the first film event of its kind to be held in the Opera House's 1500-seat opera theatre.

Before final approval could be granted to screen the film at the world-renowned venue, Village Roadshow had to negotiate with the Australian Ballet, which was due to begin the lengthy bump-in process on November 2 ahead of the Sydney premiere of Bella Trilogy.

The AB will now build the set behind a sound curtain, on which the film will be projected. A practice run will be held the week before, and Village Roadshow has agreed to cover the "not insignificant" extra costs incurred by the AB.

"It's extremely inconvenient," AB general manager Richard Evans said. "However, everyone is working together and this is the main place. Having pictures of people walking up the red carpet at the Sydney Opera House is particularly good."

The Matrix trilogy, the brainchild of the Wachowski brothers, Andy and Larry, cost $US300million ($432million), took 18 months to make and employed more than 3000 people - many of them Australian.

The Matrix Revolutions also stars US actors Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss, and Italian siren Monica Bellucci, and features cameos from local actors such as Bruce Spence, Lachy Hulme, Genevieve O'Reilly and Anthony Wong.

Matrix marketers keep on reloading

The best way to ensure that I'll never do something is to nag me incessantly about it.

The "volume" school of advertising holds that if you put a product in front of people enough, they'll eventually develop a desire for it without really knowing why. I go the opposite way: After a few weeks or months of 'round-the-clock multimedia hectoring, I develop a strong distaste for even those things that might once have been of genuine interest to me.

So it goes with The Matrix Reloaded. The aggressive all-points marketing campaign for the movie had already put me off going to see it by the time the long faces and desultory reviews emerging from theatres last May confirmed my worst suspicions. But now, after being subjected to the equally exhaustive follow-up push for the sequel's release on DVD this past Tuesday, I've sworn off the damn thing entirely. It's like a phone that won't stop ringing because the caller assumes he'll wear you down into picking up. Instead it drives you to yank the cord from the wall and vow never to speak to him again.

I just want to be left alone, to enjoy just a few weeks' peace without Keanu Reeves' vacant cyber-surfer face intruding on my every move, before Pontiac and Heineken and Samsung or whoever the hell Warner Bros. has found this time around to augment its own boisterous campaign for The Matrix Revolutions kick things into high gear for the new picture's November release. It's not likely to happen, mind you, unless I gouge my eyes out and seal myself in a box at the bottom of the Atlantic until Christmas, but I can dream.

(The irony of giving away several more column inches of publicity while simultaneously decrying saturation marketing is not lost on me. I just can't think of anything else to write about because those bloody Matrix ads are on TV 2,000 times a day. It's brainwashing.)

At least there used to be a break of a few months between the hypestorm heralding an anticipated blockbuster's theatrical release and its arrival on home video. Now, though, with production and marketing budgets for the big Hollywood films rocketing ever higher into the hundreds of millions, a "quick window" philosophy has set in to make the most of the promotional cash spent the first time around. For the hits, the lag time between opening day and those shrill, televised instructions to "Buy it today on DVD!" has now accordioned — much like that 18-wheeler from the Matrix Reloaded commercial that now haunts my dreams — down to three or four months.

"The sooner you can move into the next window, the better," an executive from Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment division recently explained to Billboard. "There's less of a chance for new properties to open up and divert consumer attention."

Ah, the noble art of the cinema. This tactic, coupled with Hollywood's current fondness for releasing sequels such as The Matrix, Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings films on top of one another, has ensured that one or all three of these "phenomena" have been thrust in the public's face all year long. Nothing else gets a word in edgewise. Nothing else has a chance.

It makes sense for the studios to push DVD sales as hard as they do, since most of the majors are controlled by larger corporations that also count record companies as part of their business. CD sales are slumping, so something's gotta fill the revenue gap and keep those pressing plants buzzing. DVDs are doing the job nicely; 10 million new DVD players were purchased in the U.S. in the first six months of this year alone, 44 per cent more than in 2002.

To say it's a growth industry is an understatement — Disney's re-release of The Lion King sold three million copies in two days last week — which is why increasingly nervous record labels are churning out music DVDs as fast as they can and have begun to re-release classics like the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon in DVD-audio format in hopes of snaring the Boomers who've already replaced their vinyl collections with CDs.

The double-stacked consumer assault represented by the Matrix, Potter and Lord Of The Rings series is obviously good for business, but there's something sinister about it. It's no longer enough for blockbusters to dominate movie screens; now they seek to conquer our homes, too, before we have time to think about — or purchase — anything else. It's a shrewd tactic for making money, sure, but it also means more diverse cultural voices have an even harder time than usual getting heard above the constant big-budget din.

Lord of the 'Circus' Ring

Entertainment Weekly (United States) - October 16, 2003

The new band Becky = "Real World" + Keanu. MTV alum Rebecca Lord teams with the bass-playing actor and writes the theme song for Disney's preschool TV show "JoJo's Circus".

On ''The Real World Seattle,'' Rebecca Lord was the quiet 19-year-old Virginian singer who eventually found her groove by recording a single produced by Sir Mix-A-Lot. Now Lord has her own band, becky, and an even bigger star backing her up on bass guitar: Keanu Reeves. But the band's new song isn't likely to end up on MTV or the ''Matrix Reloaded'' soundtrack: It's the theme to this fall's new Disney Channel show ''JoJo's Circus,'' a stop-motion clay animation series about a 6-year-old clown (airs daily). EW.com talked to the reality TV survivor about singing for a clown, why she hates her nickname, and where she keeps her Sir Mix-A-Lot single (hint: it's not on her wall).

Your band becky is more punky garage rock than pop, so how did you end up performing the theme for a show about a 6-year-old clown?

The producer we were working with at the time does a lot of work for Disney, and he actually wrote the song. And it's a cute song! We made it kind of punky. It's not like our band's music, but it's really cool.

Now that your band's called becky, does that mean you're no longer Rebecca?

I hate to be called Becky, so our drummer [Lord's boyfriend and Dogstar member Rob Mailhouse] started doing it as a joke, and the guitarist [Paulie Kosta] joined in on it, and it was driving me nuts. So when we were trying to come up with a name for the band, Paulie joked that we should call it becky, to which I said absolutely not. But everyone else loved it, so I said it was fine until we could think of a better name. And we haven't thought of anything. And everyone's calling me Becky! But it's okay now. After trying to avoid the name for 10 years, now I want to be a Becky, just be a little girl again.

In the last month becky has appeared on ''The Sharon Osbourne Show'' and ''The Orlando Jones Show.'' When can we buy an album?

We just finished our demo, so we're shopping for a label now. We've been playing around town a lot, the Viper Room and other clubs in L.A., so it's going well.

Keanu Reeves' other band, Dogstar, was savaged by the media. Any concerns that having a reality TV star and a movie star in your band will turn off critics?

Being famous in TV or film, I don't think it hurts you, but I don't think it helps you. Keanu, who is such a humble guy, doesn't even tell labels he's in the band because we don't want it to be The Keanu Reeves Band. Dogstar made different decisions, and we've talked about this a lot. People have even said they think it's a hindrance to have him in the band, and if it is that's a really sad thing. Because he's a great guy and an awesome player and we sound pretty great together as a band. So if people make judgements about us based on somebody in the band, that's just too bad.

Since celebrity can work against you in the music industry, did having ''The Real World'' on your résumé present any obstacles for you?

I think if there's anything to be overcome, it's the actual time you're on the show. Because it's awful. I felt invaded all the time. And I think my problem with it was that I was 19 and I wasn't really secure with myself yet. I was embarrassed about things I shouldn't have felt embarrassed about.

Considering some of your housemates seemed to be raving lunatics, you really had nothing to worry about. Was that the art of editing or were they really that crazy?

I don't think it's ''The Real World'' that makes you look bad, it's you that makes you look bad. But I had a couple of incidents where I was annoyed with the editing. I went into my shell and was basically mute for five months. I didn't want to show anything. Honest to God, it was pretty traumatic. But after that, I moved to Italy for a year and did a lot of soul searching. I think it ultimately helped me come into my own, and that was my blessing.

So where do you keep the single you recorded with Sir Mix-A-Lot?

Oh God, no. It was horrible! His studio was really nice and it was really fun, but I'm not really a rock singer. My mom probably has it. God, I've done some dorky things in my life!

Keymaker Actor Unlocks Wonders Of 'Matrix Reloaded'

Stage Veteran Kim Enters Whole New World With Film
Tim Lammers, Web Staff Editor

POSTED: 4:47 p.m. EDT October 17, 2003

To say that "The Matrix Reloaded" is opening huge doors into the film world for veteran stage actor Randall Duk Kim is an understatement. After all, he plays the pivotal role of "The Keymaker" in the film -- the man who is charged with the daunting responsibility of helping Neo (Keanu Reeves) get to the source of the Matrix.

"I'm so happy to be part of such a wonderful tale as this," Kim told me in a recent @ The Movies interview promoting the film's DVD release (Warner Home Video). "I was a fan before I even got the audition call for 'Reloaded.'"

Kim is not a complete stranger to feature films, having appeared opposite Chow Yun Fat in both "Anna and the King" and "The Replacement Killers."

His heart, however, remains in theater, whether he's on the Broadway stage (he most recently starred in "The Flower Drum Song"), in regional theater (places from Minneapolis to Honolulu) or at the company he co-founded more than 20 years ago -- the American Players Theater in Spring Green, Wis.

Kim said he's generally resisted the temptation to do films over the last 20 years, mainly out of his loyalty to his theater company in Wisconsin. But when "Matrix" writer-director brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski came calling, Kim couldn't refuse.

"When I got the part, you could hardly keep me from flying off the ground," Kim gleefully recalled.

With the medium of film came a whole new world of discipline for Kim. Imagination on the stage was replaced by wires and blue screens, and given the elaborate special effects of "The Matrix" films, many hours were required of him to make it real.

But despite the elaborate set-up and tireless hours, Kim said he couldn't get enough of the "Matrix" experience.

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"On every single day of that shoot I felt like a little kid on big adventure," Kim enthused. "And working for the brothers, they're childlike in their creativity -- it's just contagious."

For anyone who has seen the film, you well know that Kim's role as The Keymaker is more than about opening locks and starting machinery. In fact, he's involved in the film's spectacular 14-minute freeway chase scene, where he rides with Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) as she speeds into oncoming traffic on a Ducati motorcycle. And, Kim said, if you thought the chase scene was more than just computer-generated images, you're right.

"All of those cars flying up in the air and flipping over are real," Kim said. "Those stunt drivers were some of the most amazing people I've ever met. That was real. I would say Carrie and I did about three-quarters of what's seen up there. Our stunt doubles then did the really, really dangerous stuff."

And if Kim thought he was flying when he heard he got the role in "The Matrix Reloaded," the real "flying" was yet to come -- during the hyper-kinetic chase scene where Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) and The Keymaker face peril while riding on top of an 18-wheel semitrailer.

"What I love is when the trucks collide and Lawrence and I go flying across the top of the truck," Kim said. "They had us on wires. I felt like Peter Pan."

As much as Kim enjoyed taking part in the special effects wonders of "The Matrix Reloaded," he was, more than anything, jazzed about having the opportunity to work within the confines of such of an interesting script with endless possibilities.

"It's a great piece of storytelling -- the brothers had come up with an idea and a vision that is, in many ways, astonishing and singular in history of moviemaking," Kim observed. "For them to develop this trilogy and all the offshoots of it -- computer games (Kim is also in "Enter the Matrix") and the 'Animatrix' shorts -- it's just out of this world."

And, Kim says, working on "The Matrix Reloaded" has, best of all, provided him with an education. He's not only seen firsthand the world of cutting-edge filmmaking, but also the world we live in and its greatest mysteries.

"The Wachowskis have lifted movie technology and taken it another step. The martial arts fights in it are just astonishing to watch. I know how much hard work went into those," Kim said. "I look at 'The Matrix' as philosophy 101, it's a story that kind of gets you to ask questions that have been asked for hundreds if not thousands of years -- and we're still wrestling with it."

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Keanu to Get Waxed Off

by Joal Ryan
Oct 17, 2003, 11:00 AM PT

Is the Matrix franchise in a meltdown?

Box-office stats and DVD sales say no. But the court of public wax-museum opinion has spoken: Neo and Trinity are out.

Amid the release of the third and would-be final Matrix flick, The Matrix Revolutions, next month, the Hollywood Wax Museum figures of Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will be booted from the lobby.

No, they're not getting all melty. And, yes, the tourist mecca speaks highly of the duo, depicted in their Matrix Reloaded costumes. But, all the same, they're just not hot anymore.

"We try to stay current," says Tej Sundher, general manager of the famed museum his grandfather founded nearly 40 years ago. "[The Matrix Reloaded] was current. It is not now. We are looking to find a replacement."

Actually, they've found their replacement: Mario. As in, video-game character Mario. Of Nintendo's soon-to-be-released Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

You want hot? Mario is hot.

Come mid-November, a wax figure of Mario will bow in the lobby alongside displays for evergreens The Wizard of Oz and King Kong. He would have made his debut come Tuesday, but there was a last-minute mix-up in the model sent to the museum.

Once Mario is installed, Neo and Trinity will be taken upstairs to "the magic chamber," as Sundher calls it, for refurbishing. (The statues in the lobby, he explains, are within greater "touching and feeling" distance of the public.)

After the statues are afforded their version of a spa day, they may return to the display areas where 180 of their dummy friends confound and amaze. But they probably won't return to the their star spots in the lobby.

When the Reloaded statues were unveiled in May, timed to the big-screen release of the trilogy's second chapter, the response was "fantastic," Sundher says.

Five months and $281 million in ticket sales later, the movie is ending its theatrical life and moving to home video, where it raked in an estimated $4 million in first-day sales last Tuesday.

And while another new Matrix movie, Matrix Revolutions, is due in multiplexes November 5, Sundher says, "Out of sight, out of mind. They really haven't started a lot of promotion about [Revolutions]."

According to box-office expert Paul Dergerabedian, Revolutions' time will come.

"It's one of those situations where if you saw the first film and you saw the second film, you're compelled to see the third film," says Dergerabedian, of the tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. "[Revolutions is] definitely going to be one of the bigger movies of the holiday season."

Sundher would tend to agree. "I don't know if they're not interested in the new movie," he says. "[But] our patrons really tell us what they want to see."

And in the lobby, he says, they want the new stuff to go with their Oz and Kong. Prior to Neo and Trinity, a figure of the Rock from The Scorpion King had the spotlight for several months, the better to commemorate the movie's home-video release.

Alas, the Rock's time came and went, too. The average span for a gig in the lobby is three to six months. The Rock's Scorpion King self has since been returned to the exhibit floor.

If the fates are kind, and the temperatures low, the Rock, and even Neo and Trinity, may go on to enjoy lengthy careers in the museum. While a figure has to be a hot young thing to hang in the lobby, age is not a factor elsewhere inside the Hollywood Boulevard landmark. The museum's oldest statues--depicting the Last Supper--date back to 1927, Sundher says.

So, spread the word to Morpheus: Wax figures can be forever. "As long as it's not too warm," Sundher notes.

Silver Hypes Revolutions

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Silver Hypes Revolutions

Joel Silver, who produced the Matrix trilogy, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming conclusion to the franchise, The Matrix Revolutions, will wrap up the saga in an epic fashion. "It's the end of the movie, and there's really a resolution and everything," Silver said in an interview while promoting the release of The Matrix Reloaded on DVD. "The battle to save Zion is truly spectacular beyond your wildest dreams. You haven't seen anything like it before in your life. It's just the most spectacular sequence I've ever seen. I guess people say, 'Of course he's going to say that,' but it is really out there. It is fantastic."

While Silver is looking forward to the theatrical release of Revolutions, the end will be bittersweet for the high-profile producer. "Revolutions is a really incredible end of the whole journey," he said. "It's sad, but it's exciting." The Matrix Reloaded DVD hits stores on Oct. 14, while The Matrix Revolutions opens in theaters Nov. 5.

KEANU FINALLY COMES CLEAN

When Keanu Reeves enters the back garden of Elixir Tonics and Teas in West Hollywood, the quiet zen like atmosphere erupts into whispers and giggles.

You see, even jaded, hardcore Hollywood locals can't help but be starstruck by the 39 year old face of The Matrix trilogy, one of the biggest movie franchises ever to hit the big screen. No doubt, too, the attention he commands has something to do with his hot-without-trying look: worn in Levi's, a white-tee, and brown longish locks that are perfectly mussed from wearing a motorcycle helmet.

But beyond his alluringly exotic appearance (his father is part Chinese, part Hawaiian, his mother is English) Keanu has an unmistakable an air of mystery. He's fiercly guarded and known for evading questions about his personal life. And he's hard to pin down because he rarely stays in one place for too long. He's been living out of a suitcase and in hotels ever since he appeared as Jack Traven in 1994's SPEED. But the vagabond lifestyle is coming to an end. The Toronto native has finally laid down roots for the first time in nine years by purchasing a palatial pad in the Hollywood Hills. He's also blown his famouse hush-hush interview policy and gotten downright forthcoming with Cosmo. Read on for a very rare glimpse of the secretive stars life.

COSMO: It must have mad you feel pretty damn good to have The Matrix Reloaded make $93 million the first weekend it was out, huh?

KEANU: Yes, it's very exciting. I think the films are incredibly special, and to have so many people respond to them and to come out and see them in such a big way is a very rare thing to happen.

COSMO: Will the The Matrix Revolutions answer the remaining story line questions?

KEANU: The cycle will be complete. The directors aren't going to rip you off. At the end of the second one, they didn't say "To be continued" they said "To be concluded," which I thought was a cool thing.

COSMO: What are the Matrix fans like?

Keanu: People do Matrix costume parties and get tattoos and that sort of thing. But there was a breakfast cereal called Bill and Teds Excellent Cereal, named after that movie, so nothing seems all that strange anymore.

COSMO: Is it true that you, the guy who plays the computer hacker Thomas Anderson, (aka Neo) don't even own a computer?

Keanu: Oh yea that's totally true. Isn't that great? I really should get one. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Cosmo: Playing Neo is physically demanding. How did you get into shape?

Keanu: I trained all day long for four months, doing kicking, stretchingm punching, and wirework (learning to use wires for all the gravity-defying kicks and flips). It was intense. The hardest part was the fight scene from Reloaded with the Smiths (a sequence with his enemy and multiple clones). I fought with 12 stuntment, we worked on it for three weeks, and I think Neo had something like 500 moves.

Cosmo: Did you ever get hurt?

Keanu: One of the things about playing Neo is that you don’t get hit a lot. But there was a bit of blood. My thumb got cut and it burst open.

Cosmo: You’ve injured yourself on your bike a lot. Are you a big risk taker?

Keanu: No, no, no. I’m just a really bad driver. Over the years, I’ve broken some teeth off, and I broke my ankle. I have a two-level fusion – which means I have a metal plate in my neck – and a ruptured spleen, some road-rash scars.

Cosmo: What’s so great about riding?

Keanu: Oh, it’s just always so refreshing and invigorating. You’re completely exposed to the elements, and you feel like you have a real connection with them when you’re riding. And the best thing about it of all is that you’re totally alone.

Cosmo: You’re pretty private. How do you deal with the media attention?

Keanu: The best I can. I really don’t pay a lot of attention to it. If it becomes overly intrusive, then it is an issue. I’m just surprised by what people feel they have a right to do or ask. It’s amazing. People choose what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. Oftentimes, it’s not well-mannered and it’s none of their business.

Cosmo: Are you still with your band, Dogstar?

Keanu: No. We just needed to take a break from one another. Now I’m in a new band called Becky Band.

Cosmo: When you’re up onstage and there are hundreds of people in the audience, what’s that like?

Keanu: It’s really fun and exciting. It’s just such a creative way to express yourself and have a good time. I’ve had a couple of bras thrown onstage which is great. Keep the bras coming!

Cosmo: You’ve had some huge gigs too. With Dogstar, you opened for David Bowie and Bon Jovi.

Keanu: Yeah. Bowie was at the Hollywood Palladium on Halloween night. That was crazy. We went on tour with Bon Jovi in Australia. We were the first of three bands, so we basically played to empty lawns and security guards, but we had a blast.

Cosmo: If you had to pick what would be a great day off for you?

Keanu: Spending time with friends, maybe going for a short bike ride on my motorcycle, reading a little, having a good meal. I also like leaving days open for surprises. I try not to make schedules, because work is so focused. When I come home, it’s nice to leave things open and see where the day takes you.

Cosmo: What would be a perfect date?

Keanu: One where we mutually had an exceptional time that had the wonderful thing that can happen on a first date where you are intoxicated with each other’s company and everything becomes good in the world and there’s hope and you’re just excited to see them. And you have great ease with them. Just a good experience.

Cosmo: Are you single?

Keanu: I am currently single.

Cosmo: And looking?

Keanu: Begging, pleading.

Cosmo: Do you ever want to get married?

Keanu: I think so.

Cosmo: Would a girl need to commit to riding around on a motorcycle to date you?

Keanu: No. It would be fine if she didn’t.

Cosmo: Do you like women to approach you, or do you prefer to approach women?

Keanu: Yes. All of it. Any which way.

Cosmo: What are you still trying to figure out about women?

Keanu: The figuring out is the fun part. It’s always wonderful to get to know women with the mystery and the joy and the depth.

Cosmo: Is there anything you know to be true about women?

Keanu: That if you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s earth.

Cosmo: If you could have one get-out-of-jail-free card with a woman, what would you typically use it for?

Keanu: I’d have to say lying and cheating.

Cosmo: Really?

Keanu: Well, if I’m going to need that card, I’m going to keep it for the big stuff.

Cosmo: So are you saying that you lie and cheat? You walked right into that.

Keanu: Oh, I knew exactly what I was walking into. Not to say that I’m a liar and a cheater, but since you’re offering it up it’s good to have that card. Maybe I can give it away to someone.

Cosmo: What’s a turn-on?

Keanu: I’m pretty easily amused.

Cosmo: Anything in particular? Eyes, legs, hair, cleavage…..

Keanu: Oh, those all sound so good.

Cosmo: Do you have a least-favorite body part and a favorite body part?

Keanu: I’m not telling you that. Are you crazy?

Cosmo: Where is the most outrageous place you’ve ever had sex?

Keanu: I don’t know…what is outrageous anymore? What I thought of as outrageous when I was 17, and now being 39, you know, that doesn’t count.

Cosmo: Right, because at 17, having sex in your parents’ bed is outrageous.

Keanu: Yea, and now you just shouldn’t be doing that – it’s creepy. You probably shouldn’t have been doing it before, but you were 17. So let me think. I’ve made out in a cab, but I’ve never gone all the way in a cab. Or have I? No, you’re remember that right? Or maybe you wouldn’t and that would be the only way that you did it. Ou know what? Okay, yeah, I did, but I don’t remember. You can’t be sober and have sex in the back of a cab.

Cosmo: Exactly. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get a woman’s attention?

Keanu: I haven’t done the letter-writing airplane in the sky or the “Come over for dinner and now we’re going to Paris” thing. I can’t wait to do those things, but I haven’t done them yet. If I ever meet someone, we’re going to have a good time, because I’m making a list.

Cosmo: What would you like to have in your life in 10 years that you don’t have right now?

Keanu: I’d like to have another one of those get-out-of-jail-free cards in my pocket so that I could use it for this question so I don’t have to answer.

By Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak

A First Look at Pictures From Constantine

Source: Straight to Hell Friday, October 10, 2003

Straight to Hell has a first look at pictures from Warner Bros.' Constantine. Here's how director Francis Lawrence describes the images...

"Constantine has a hardboiled detective edge and a punk Sid Vicious attitude; he smokes, he drinks and is sarcastic and wry. He's not a blond Englishman but the heart of the character, the attitude and the period he invokes is intact, as this was the most important thing for me to maintain."

You can check out two images of Keanu as John Constantine here and here, plus another picture of what his apartment will look like in the film here.

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