Culture news If Keanu Reeves had accepted this role, he would have fulfilled a dream and could have saved this actor's career! Instead, the filming was very complicated…
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On the rise in the 90s, actor Keanu Reeves was already starting to become the darling of Hollywood. At that time, the actor had received an opportunity that, normally, is not refused, especially since it is one of the roles he dreamed of the most. However, Keanu Reeves refused, allowing someone else to take his place… and ruin his reputation and career because of the filming.
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In the film industry, Canadian actor Keanu Reeves has acquired, over the years, the reputation of a ” good guy “. Today, even the video game industry is fighting over it, as we saw with the game Cyberpunk 2077. However, it took some time for the entertainment world to woo him to this extent. While he made his debut in the 80s, it was during the following decade that he was spotted by certain great directors or landed key roles: Point Break, Dracula, Speed… What is less well known is that before putting on Neo's long black coat in MatrixKeanu Reeves had received another golden offer… which he refused.
During his career, Keanu Reeves has had the right to play iconic characters. There was Neo, as we mentioned just before, but also John Constantine, John Wick. He will even soon have the chance to lend his voice to Shadow, the black and red hedgehog of the franchise Sonic. Despite these opportunities, Keanu Reeves never achieved his dream of playing Batmaneven though there was indeed the dubbing of the Dark Knight in Krypto and the Super-Animals in 2022. However, he was approached to play the illustrious vigilante of Gotham in the 90s before rejecting the offer, which remains one of his great regrets.
Batman Forever, the filming that damaged the reputation of this cult film actor
Eh yes, There is a world where we could have known Keanu Reeves as Bruce Wayne for the film Batman Forever from 1995. At that time, director Joel Schumacher took over from Tim Burton and Batman: The Return with Michael Keaton in the lead role. For this new project, the production team must find another actor to don the costume: Keanu Reeves is in the sights, but his refusal forces them to look at other names including that of Val Kilmer who will ultimately be the lucky one. Finally, the unfortunate one should rather say…
On the one hand, you should know that the actor launched into the project without being very interested in it since he ended up explaining that he had signed to join the project without having read the script and without knowing the name of the director. Conversely, Schumacher did not forget Kilmer's name since the two often clashed on the film set, notably because Val Kilmer was rude to the crew. Following this bad experience, Val Kilmer's reputationyet one of the stars of the film Top Gun And Heat, began to deteriorate, and he was increasingly seen as a difficult actor to work with.. Despite everything, his filmography continued to fill up, even if he rarely worked under the direction of great filmmakers thereafter.