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The report also notes that Reeves has continued to quietly donate to cancer research even after his sister entered remission in 2001 and set up a private foundation as well. Reeves also auctioned off a 15-minute Zoom “date” with himself in 2020 with the proceeds going to Camp Rainbow Gold, a program for children with cancer.
“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 told Ladies Home Journal in 2009. “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.”
This is far from the only account of Reeves being a generous and all-around good guy. Stories about Reeves being a genuinely good person are fairly common, including one from last fall that revealed that the actor gave the stunt team on John Wick: Chapter 4 a very generous wrap gift: a Rolex Submariner. In October, Bruce Lee Concepcion and Jeremy Marinas showed off the gifts on Instagram. The watches are valued at around $10,000 each.
As for The Matrix, Reeves can currently be seen starring in The Matrix Resurrections.
“When [director Lana Wachowski] approached me, she spoke about having a story to tell which centered around Neo and Trinity, and that sounded really exciting to me,” Reeves explained previously. “Neo’s getting a second chance at his life, and he’s getting a second chance with the person that he says is ‘the only person I ever loved.’ The depth of why this film got made is the sense of it being a love story between Trinity and Neo.”
The Matrix Resurrections is now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.
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