Keanu Reeves‘ girlfriend Alexandra Grant is opening up about their relationship!
The Matrix star and the visible artist first met in 2011, and debuted their relationship on the purple carpet in 2019 for the world to see — however except for the small peep right here and there, we by no means hear a lot about them collectively. They’re notoriously very non-public about their love life, however on Friday Alexandra gave slightly perception into their partnership to People on the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards!
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The 50-year-old advised the outlet “storytelling is at the heart of what we both do,” which has been an enormous a part of their connection:
“My work is much more of a private performance, but I have a text that I interpret in the studio into a painting, into an object. He takes the text in private and then turns it into a performance in public … There’s a relationship. We’re both, at the heart, readers and researchers. We both care about people and we care about characters.”
Their inventive sides are likely to cross paths, as she made a comparability of her profession to that of her 59-year-old beau:
“I think there’s a lot of similarities. Sometimes I feel like, to make a film, as we’re seeing now in the strike, that it’s a cruise ship. Everyone is dependent on everyone else. You can’t go off and — being an artist, maybe at the beginning of my career, I was in a kayak on the sea of creativity. Now maybe it’s a small speedboat, but it’s still a lot more nimble.”
She continued on to say the John Wick actor thrives in entering into totally different worlds — however not truly making them like artists do:
“I think that is very inspiring for him … To make a film, you require hundreds of people. To be an artist, you don’t. You require one. You require a community to get the work into the world, but not to actually make it. I think part of the inspiration is the differences of scale.”
Wow! A extremely cool means to take a look at their careers — they overlap in loads of methods!
Because of those variations in scale, Alexandra added, their relationship is powerful as they push one another to “build new roads” in life and artwork:
“…We’re pushing each other to build new roads. Seeing the other person’s problem-solving is inspiring, like, ‘Oh, well, okay, this one, that’s a cul-de-sac. How do I try this other thing?’ He’s such an inspiration to me. He’s so creative, he’s so kind. He works so hard.”
And so far as life after she began relationship the Hollywood icon? She’s gotten a lot “happier”:
“I had a studio visit a few years ago, and this very kind, very high-level person said, ‘I can see that your work has gotten happier.’ That’s real. We’re all human beings. We’re animals. We’re expressing from where we are and certainly feeling happier. I think the work is happier.”
Aww!
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