{"id":82463,"date":"2025-10-16T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82463\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:57:13","slug":"keanu-reeves-almost-used-stage-name-kc-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82463\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves\u00a0Almost Used Stage Name KC Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keanu Reeves<\/a> almost sent his identity to the matrix.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Matrix<\/a> alum shared that he briefly changed his real name during the early days of his acting career\u2014but ultimately, he couldn\u2019t fully commit to taking the blue pill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a professional actor around 16, 17,\u201d Keanu, 61, explained in the Oct. 15 episode<\/a> of the New Heights podcast. \u201cI ended up doing a movie in Toronto that got me an agent in L.A. So, at 20 years old, I drove in my car to Los Angeles, got out of my car, and my manager said, \u2018We want to change your name.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The John Wick<\/a> star was confused by his manager\u2019s suggestion at the time, especially since they didn\u2019t have a new moniker prepared for him. So, Keanu began to brainstorm his new stage name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember I was walking on the beach and I was like, \u2018My name? What if I change my name?\u2019\u201d he reflected on his thought process. \u201cMy middle name is Charles, so I was like \u2018Chuck?\u2019 And I grew up on a street called Spadina, [so I thought] \u2018Chuck Spadina?\u2019 Then I was like, \u2018something Templeton.\u2019 But then I became \u2018KC Reeves.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves almost sent his identity to the matrix. Indeed, the Matrix alum shared that he briefly changed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-82463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}