Keanu Reeves donated 70% of his original earnings from “The Matrix” to cancer research.
Almost three years ago, my colleague Michelle Ruiz hypothesized that we had entered the, writing that “the Keanussaince hinges not only on Reeves’s ageless brooding and overall staying power, but also [his] wholesomeness—or, as The A.V. Club aptly put it, ‘meeting the very low bar of just being a famous male actor who simply doesn’t seem to be a piece of shit.’” Somehow, in 2022, Reeves is evenfortune in the name of potentially life-saving medical research—though that does help.
Reeves made his cancer research donation of $31.5 million partly in support of his younger sister Kim, who had been , and he didn’t stop there. “I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research,” Reeves toldin 2009, adding, “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.”with him in June of 2020 to benefit Camp Rainbow Gold, an Idaho-based children’s cancer charity. Bidding went up to $16,600, which...
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