Keanu Reeves is constant his reign as one of many kindest stars in Hollywood.
In an excerpt revealed Friday by Entertainment Weekly of her e book “Say Everything: A Memoir,” actor Ione Skye revealed she discovered it “hard not to stare” at Reeves whereas they had been filming 1986′s “River’s Edge” — and that she even began “stalking” him round his trailer.
Skye wrote she finally stopped by his residence in hopes of a fling, just for Reeves to announce he was going to take a bathe after she tried to kiss him. Skye mentioned she boldly adopted, nevertheless, and positioned herself between Reeves and his working bathe head.
“I zeroed in on his beautiful throat, sucking and making out with it,” she wrote, per EW. “He made a low, growly noise and I felt my stomach turn nicely. ‘Oh,’ I heard myself say. The room was thick with steam, my wet T-shirt sticking to me, wanting to be peeled off.”
Reeves had but to ascertain himself as a bona fide motion star, however he was six years older than Skye — then an adolescent. She recalled making an attempt to unbuckle his belt when he grabbed her wrist and kindly knowledgeable her he didn’t wish to take issues additional.
“I broke out with a quick, shocked laugh. ‘Sorry!’” Skye recalled in her e book, per EW. “‘No, don’t be,’ said Keanu, releasing my wrist. We were still stuck together, breathing hard. I pressed my face, red from the kiss and now embarrassment, into his chest.”
She then marveled at his grace, noting: “Even the way he’d rejected me was charming.”
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Skye added that Reeves not solely provided her a dry shirt afterwards, however got here as much as her on set the following day to “let me know he didn’t blame me for trying.”
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Skye stays finest identified for her efficiency in 1989’s “Say Anything” reverse John Cusack, and whereas she didn’t handle to mattress Reeves, she revealed in her memoir that Cusack was greater than recreation. Years after capturing “Say Anything,” Skye mentioned they slept collectively, reportedly writing in her memoir: “I had to get it out of my system.”
