Keanu Reeves once rescued Octavia Spencer during her struggling period
- Last updated: September 9, 2020 | 11:46
Actor Keanu Reeves is known to be a hero in real life too, with stories about his kind and helpful behaviour often making it to the news.
The "Matrix" star is reported to be one of Hollywood's nicest actors and he once rescued a pre-fame Octavia Spencer after he found her stranded on the roadside.
Reeves recently turned 56 (Sept.2), with many fans sharing their favourite performances from the actor on social media, as well as their favourite tales of Reeves’ apparent kindness off-camera.
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But few have as good a story as Spencer, who revealed in 2014 that she unexpectedly encountered a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding Reeves shortly after she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting in the 1990s.
The "Hidden Figures" star, who won an Oscar for "The Help" in 2012, was running low on money and travelling in a beaten-up car when it stalled on the side of the road, with many passers-by declining to help her.
That is until a certain "Matrix" actor appeared and offered a hand.
“My car broke down in the middle of a crazy intersection, and I had always parked underneath a tree so birds would just have a field day on it, and I never washed it and it was filthy,” Spencer recalled on Meredith Vieira’s US talk show.
“I had an audition and my car had broken down, and no one would help me because my car was so dirty, until Keanu Reeves (came by) ... He was on a motorcycle, and he had his little motorcycle helmet and sunglasses and he was like, ‘Hey, do you need some help?’
“I kid you not, I was gonna have him get in and I was gonna push it, but he was like, ‘No, no, I can push you.’ And I was thinking, ‘Oh no, he’s gonna touch my car!’ I was mortified.”
Spencer joked that she was “looking foul” during the interaction, which only made her more grateful for Reeves’s help.
As a token of her gratitude, she added that she has seen all of his new movies in the years since.
“I go to his movie every opening weekend, whatever he has, because that was a very sweet thing to do,” she said.
Reeves is well known for being one of Hollywood’s nicest celebrities, with Winona Ryder recently revealing that he refused to scream abuse at her while filming a dramatic scene in their movie "Dracula."
In 2019, Reeves was also caught on camera assisting and entertaining a bus full of travellers who were stuck in Bakersfield, California, after the airplane flight they were all on was forced to make an emergency landing.