We live in an era of both peak self-salesmanship and peak self-protection. Why be a real person, with glorious flaws and eccentricities, when it’s easier to curate a persona on Instagram? Why risk an encounter with a fellow human when you can just shove a pair of white sticks in your ears? But Keanu Reeves, a living entreaty to keep all of our receptors open, shows us another path. In movies like this year’s John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, as well as Toy Story 4, in which he provides the voice of charmingly insecure daredevil Duke Caboom, there’s thought behind everything he does: movement is acting, speaking is acting, listening is acting, just being is acting. But images of Reeves out in the world—being a regular person, maybe holding the…
