Just while you thought actor Keanu Reeves, he of not solely motion films like John Wick, The Matrix and Point Break, but additionally romantic comedies akin to Something’s Gotta Give and Always Be My Maybe, had hit his restrict of being pleasant, he goes and does this.
Over the weekend, he had a humorous response to the information that German scientists have named newly found compounds after him, as a result of they’re so efficient at killing: “Hi, thank you,” Reeves wrote on Reddit, by way of the Lionsgate account, throughout a AMA occasion. “They should’ve called it John Wick…but that’s pretty cool…and surreal for me. But thanks, scientist people! Good luck, and thank you for helping us.”
As many individuals famous on social media, it’s a assertion that may solely be learn in the voice of his Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure character, Ted.
The “help” Reeves referred to is what the compound — keanumycins — can probably do. Experts are optimistic that it will likely be capable of destroy fungus in crops and fungal infections in individuals, which is big.
“The lipopeptides kill so efficiently,” Sebastian Götze, the lead writer of the research explaining the molecule advised Phys.org, “that we named them after Keanu Reeves, because he, too, is extremely deadly in his roles.”
Reeves was additionally requested throughout the occasion whether or not he had ever regretted turning down a job.
He responded that he didn’t. However, he added, “but I did always want to play Wolverine.”
There was some of the kindness we’re used to seeing from the actor, too.
For occasion, at one level, he responded to a query about the first pet he had ever had: a guinea pig named Carrot when he was 5 or 6. “He was a sweetie-pie,” Reeves wrote.
When he was requested what drives him to be so compassionate, he had a easy reply: “We die…and we all need all the help we can get.”
Reeves can be again on film screens Friday, when John Wick: Chapter 4 arrives in theaters.
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