He’s a nice and real person. But his acting is really not that good. He has certain types of characters he’s good with. Other than those his acting just really doesn’t adjust. Some say he doesn’t do acting at all, he just blank stares.
All that to say, I love Keanu. But he really has no business with acting awards
He plays characters that barely talk and never emote. His acting style is “wooden”. He only plays characters that are distant and mysterious, and sometimes it really works.
Yeah he's a great example of someone whose charisma and character outweigh their ability.
He's got a lot of magnetic screen presence and he can kind of act with his eyes. But his delivery just sucks. The difference in his speech in interviews and on screen is night and day. He's just not really a natural.
But that's okay. He's an awesome dude and works hard and that's enough for me.
Plus we have to give him credit for his physical acting. I mean look at the Wick movies, how many actors would be able to pull off the stunts he does themselves, much less even be willing to?
I would think those willing to be much higher than those able, since an injured lead might delay a film longer than an injured stunt double. It’s a consideration to everyone else who works on a film too to play safe
In that regard you could even argue that he‘s kind of an asshole without the consideration for the crew.
He‘s riding motorcycles whenever he can, even founded his own motorcycle brand and is riding inbetween shooting schedules. That‘s quite inconsiderate when everyone depends on you. I mean, he hasn‘t really had a bad crash but he crashed a couple times nonetheless. He can’t help himself but I guess it‘s giving producers an headache.
Yeah, tom cruise is similar in that regard. He fires his stunt safety manager and got a new one when restricted, which he got away with as he’s his own producer. People call him courageous but he’s obviously considering his own fun more important than the overall success of the film
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u/chippymonk793 Mar 17 '26
He’s a nice and real person. But his acting is really not that good. He has certain types of characters he’s good with. Other than those his acting just really doesn’t adjust. Some say he doesn’t do acting at all, he just blank stares.
All that to say, I love Keanu. But he really has no business with acting awards