Keanu Reeves on Turning 50

I know you turned 50 last month, and happy birthday, but it's hard to believe looking at you. Maybe I'm getting older, or you're just very, very youthful. But I would never guess you were 50 years old if we just met. I am 50. Wow. Yeah, 5-0, golden, half century, whatever that is. Did you have a big party to celebrate this? No. Were you depressed about this? No, it was kind of like shock. Yeah, right. Yeah, it was just like the week before. I was like, oh, gosh, I'm 50. And then I was like, what happened to the 40s? And then my friends were like, let's have a party. Let's do something. And then I was like, eh, I just don't want the, eh, eh. Did you at least get a cake? Did you get anything? Yeah, my sister made me a cake. All right, that's nice. What flavor? What was it? It was a chocolate cake. Oh, how nice. Yeah, it was very nice. I mentioned in the introduction that your movies have made so much money, $3.5 billion. They've entertained. Entertained, right, yes. And I was wondering, do you remember the first paycheck you ever got for acting, the first acting job that actually paid you something? How much was it, and what did you do with it? Let's see, let's see. The first job was a show. I grew up in Toronto, Canada. And it was called, that was kind of, yeah, Toronto. They're a little bit slower to identify themselves since Mayor Ford came around, I think, yeah. They keep it under their hats a little bit more. Anyway, oops. And then, so what was it, a television show called Hanging In. And I got to play a tough guy. And my line was, hey, lady, where's the bathroom? And you chose your own. I remember they had a rack of clothes, and you had to choose your own, and it was like, denim. Yeah, it was like denim with studs, because it was like an after-school program kind of place. You had to be a tough guy, yeah. You had to wear denim and studs. Yeah. Hanging in, huh? I was looking at it. It was just like, man, this is really goofy. How much did they pay you for that? Oh, that's right, that a question. Yeah. I don't know. You don't remember, huh? It was like, I was 15 years old, so I'm going to, $127. That's not bad. I mean, for a 15-year-old, that isn't bad at all. That's bank. Did you spend that money right away? Would you save it? It's gone. It's gone now. Well, we've got to find it. It's in the memory. When I was a kid, I used to deliver pizzas, and I loved saving up the cash. I had a drawer, and I kept a ledger of every amount I'd made, $64, whatever I made that night. And I'd just keep the cash, and I became the bank for all my friends in the neighborhood. Oh, yeah, for sure. Unfortunately, they would rarely pay the bank back the loans that were issued, yeah. It just looks good, too, when you're young, and you're getting like, I had a paper route. And I remember when you would collect, and then you would get this pile of dough. I mean, it wasn't really a pile, but you had like, you know, for a young person. Yeah, it was. It was like, it was just like, ah, you know, you had to keep it, then you had to give it back. Do you find that it's a weird thing? Like, you can make a lot of money, and you know, you go like, wow, I make a lot of money. But you never feel like you have more money than when you're a kid, and you've got $100. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh, that's like Valhalla. Yeah, right. Yeah. You cannot top that. It's impossible. No, it's fantastic.