“John Wick: Chapter 4” star Keanu Reeves (58) is clearly one of the more generous Hollywood stars. The “New York Times” reported just a few days ago that the superstar is said to have given the stunt crew of his latest film T-shirts that record how many times the stuntmen died during the shooting of the ultra-brutal action film.
As early as autumn 2021, the US magazine “People” reported that Reeves is said to have given the same stunt performers expensive Rolex Submariner watches with a personal message of thanks at the end of the shooting of the fourth “John Wick” film. The 58-year-old must have shelled out around 10,000 euros for each of these models.
It’s not the first time that Reeves has attracted attention by giving generous gifts to crew members on his films. The mime is also said to have waived parts of his fees in the past in order to make his own films better. He also regularly donates large sums to charitable causes. An overview of the particularly generous moments of the “John Wick” star.
“Money is the last thing on my mind. I could live on what I’ve earned so far for the next few centuries,” Reeves once told the Chicago Tribune. In fact, back in 2003, the star gave away Harley Davidson motorcycles to 12 members of the “Matrix Reloaded” stunt crew.
He wanted to “give all these guys a bigger thank you,” Reeves explained his motivation for the gifts. A single one of the twelve machines is likely to have cost between 7,000 and 40,000 US dollars (equivalent to 6,500 to 37,000 euros).
After his sister was diagnosed with leukemia, the Hollywood star also dedicated himself to the fight against cancer. “I have a private charity […] that supports some children’s hospitals and cancer research,” Reeves told Ladies Home Journal in 2009.
The star went on to say, “I don’t want to put my name on the foundation, I just let them do what they do.” Reeves has also financially supported other charities such as PETA, the SickKids Foundation or Stand Up To Cancer in the past.
The film projects in which he is involved also seem to have been more important to Reeves than his personal earnings in some cases. So he gave up a portion of his profit sharing from the second and third “Matrix” films so that the producing studio Warner Bros. could put these sums into the special effects and costumes of the two blockbusters.
Even before the turn of the millennium, Reeves gave up millions so that, despite the smaller budgets for his two films “The Devil’s Advocate” (1997) and “Heroes from the Second Row” (2000), cinema legends Al Pacino (82) and Gene Hackman ( 93) could be committed.
