Keanu Reeves was spotted rocking a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard when he surfaced in Beverly Hills this week.
The 59-year-old heartthrob was spotted emerging from the Louis Vuitton on Rodeo Drive, where he had gotten in a bit of Black Friday shopping.
Swinging a Christmas-themed bag from the luxury emporium, the Matrix star cut a casual figure as he pounded the pavement in the 90210 area code.
Wardrobe-wise, he stuck to muted colors, throwing a black jacket over a midnight blue t-shirt and a pair of brown trousers.
His signature dark hair spilled down in a bit of a mullet, out from under the baseball cap he accessorized with for his latest outing.
On the go: Keanu Reeves was spotted rocking a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard when he surfaced in Beverly Hills this week
Mover and shaker: The 59-year-old heartthrob was spotted emerging from the Louis Vuitton on Rodeo Drive, where he had gotten in a bit of Black Friday shopping
The John Wick star is still enjoying his long-running romance with painter Alexandra Grant, 50, whom he was first linked to over a decade ago.
Alexandra and Keanu first became acquainted at a dinner party in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before going red carpet official in 2019.
However in the intervening years they have tended to guard their privacy and rarely discussed details of their relationship in public.
Keanu made an exception this year when he was asked for his ‘last moment of bliss’ and said: ‘A couple of days ago with my honey. We were in bed. We were connected.’
The Constantine lead effervesced: ‘We were smiling and laughing and giggling. Feeling great. It was just really nice to be together.’
Alexandra found herself at the business end of an internet frenzy when she walked the red carpet with Keanu at the LACMA Art + Film Gala in early November 2019.
‘I think every single person I knew called me in the first week of November, and that’s fascinating,’ she told British Vogue a few months later.
When she was asked in 2020 about the prospect of marriage, she said: ‘Love at every level is deeply important to my identity. How’s that for dodging the question?’
The look: Wardrobe-wise, he stuck to muted colors, throwing a black jacket over a midnight blue t-shirt and a pair of brown trousers
Love life: The John Wick star is still enjoying his long-running romance with painter Alexandra Grant, 50, whom he was first linked to over a decade ago
Backdrop: Alexandra and Keanu first became acquainted at a dinner party in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before going red carpet official in 2019
Under wraps: However in the intervening years they have tended to guard their privacy and rarely discussed details of their relationship in public
She added: ‘I do not believe that isolation is the way. There is a period of isolation that I do as a painter, but I deeply value the experience of being in relationships.’
By the time they went red carpet official, they had been friends for around a decade and it had been reported that Keanu wanted the romance out in the open.
They first collaborated on Keanu’s 2011 book Ode To Happiness, with Alexandra providing illustrations. The book was her first as an artist and his first as a writer.
They worked together again on the actor’s 2016 book Shadows, to which Alexandra once again contributed the artwork.
She is his first known girlfriend since Jennifer Syme, who died in a car accident in 2001 less than four months after delivering her and Keanu’s stillborn baby.
Bliss: Keanu made an exception this year when he was asked for his ‘last moment of bliss’ and said: ‘A couple of days ago with my honey. We were in bed’; they are pictured earlier this month
In 2010 a photograph surfaced of the Matrix star sitting glumly on a park bench, resulting in the wildly viral ‘Sad Keanu’ meme.
When the meme took off there was much speculation that his expression was connected to the shattering losses he had undergone in the past decade.
However in a 2021 interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Keanu dished that he actually looked forlorn in the picture because he was feeling peckish.
‘Man, I’m eating a sandwich!’ the movie star said of the picture. ‘I was thinking. I had some stuff going on. I was hungry.’
