Keanu Reeves‘ girlfriend Alexandra Grant is opening up about their relationship!
The Matrix star and the visible artist first met in 2011, and debuted their relationship on the purple carpet in 2019 for the world to see — however apart from the small peep right here and there, we by no means hear a lot about them collectively. They’re notoriously very non-public about their love life, however on Friday Alexandra gave slightly perception into their partnership to Folks on the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards!
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The 50-year-old instructed the outlet “storytelling is on the coronary heart of what we each do,” which has been an enormous a part of their connection:
“My work is rather more of a personal efficiency, however I’ve a textual content that I interpret within the studio right into a portray, into an object. He takes the textual content in non-public after which turns it right into a efficiency in public … There’s a relationship. We’re each, on the coronary heart, readers and researchers. We each care about folks and we care about characters.”
Their artistic sides are inclined to cross paths, as she made a comparability of her profession to that of her 59-year-old beau:
“I feel there’s a variety of similarities. Generally I really feel like, to make a movie, as we’re seeing now within the strike, that it’s a cruise ship. Everybody depends on everybody else. You may’t go off and — being an artist, possibly originally of my profession, I used to be in a kayak on the ocean of creativity. Now possibly it’s a small speedboat, but it surely’s nonetheless much more nimble.”
She continued on to say the John Wick actor thrives in getting into totally different worlds — however not really making them like artists do:
“I feel that may be very inspiring for him … To make a movie, you require a whole bunch of individuals. To be an artist, you don’t. You require one. You require a neighborhood to get the work into the world, however to not really make it. I feel a part of the inspiration is the variations of scale.”
Wow! A very cool method to have a look at their careers — they overlap in a variety of methods!
Due to these variations in scale, Alexandra added, their relationship is robust as they push one another to “construct new roads” in life and artwork:
“…We’re pushing one another to construct new roads. Seeing the opposite particular person’s problem-solving is inspiring, like, ‘Oh, properly, okay, this one, that’s a cul-de-sac. How do I do that different factor?’ He’s such an inspiration to me. He’s so artistic, he’s so type. He works so arduous.”
And so far as life after she began courting the Hollywood icon? She’s gotten a lot “happier”:
“I had a studio go to a number of years in the past, and this very type, very high-level particular person stated, ‘I can see that your work has gotten happier.’ That’s actual. We’re all human beings. We’re animals. We’re expressing from the place we’re and definitely feeling happier. I feel the work is happier.”
Aww!
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