Keanu Reeves Remembers Taking a Teenage Drew for a Birthday Motorcycle Joyride

I can't wait to see this human. Let's get him right on out here and not hold back. Keanu Reeves, where are you? I'm so happy to see you, Rob. I know. It is my day. I was thinking about Emory, actually. Oh, yes? Yes. I mean, I was thinking about, oh, by the way, did you know that it is literally like almost to the day, the 35th anniversary of that? Obscure masterpiece, Babes in Toyland. Sometimes obscurity's good, but there was a good heart in that piece. We had so much fun making it. It was crazy. And Richard Mulligan, Jill Shulman. Pat Morita. Googie Grants. I'm just looking back at, you know, from 1986 until now, we have both had the privilege and fortune to keep going. And what a gift and a blessing that is. You're someone I think of, too, as being so incredibly gracious about it. And I definitely feel like I would look around and see the behaviors of the people that I wanted to be like one day, and they were always the kind, humble, gracious, hardworking, you know, lovely examples. You are so that. It's kind of you to say that. Kind of you to say that. I mean, I love what I do, right? I mean, yeah, I love acting. I like rolling up the sleeves. I like going to work. And, you know, it is what it is, man. We ain't, you know, we ain't doctors in our lives, you know? But we do, we can change lives. We can help, you know? Can I take it back to a memory that I have with you? I was at this club, and it was my 16th birthday, and you came in. This is the memory I have of it. If you have anything to add or change, please let me know. And you walked in, and you grabbed my hand, and you took me outside, and you put me on your motorcycle. Oh, my. And we drove at the warp speed of my life. What did we go, Mulholland or something like that? We went, and you took me on the ride of my life, and I was so free. I was such a free human being. And it was just this moment where I just remember loving life and being so happy. And I hold it so dear, because the older we get, the harder it is to get to that feeling. Yeah. I wonder where we were at in Turkey. Which club were we at? I believe it was on 3rd Street in Los Angeles. Okay. And then I think we definitely took off down 3rd, and then we drove around for a while, and then we went back, and I went back in, and I don't remember if you came in or not. I literally walked back into the party, like, skipping, like, I mean, as a sweet 16, but I'm now realizing you can't have a better sweet 16 than being put on your motorcycle and having the moment where you understand what freedom is. Mm. Wow. If we were on 3rd, I must have, okay. Yeah. Oh, wow. We probably went fast. So fast. Yeah. Like, irresponsibly fast. Yeah. If we were on 3rd at night, yeah, we could get on it. Yeah. And we did. Yeah. Right on. All right. Yeah, because riding your bike is thrilling, and it is, there is a freedom to it, and back in those beautiful days. When was the moment that you felt free, if I was to say, that is my moment that I hearken to feeling so free? Do you have one? Yeah, I've got a few. But since we're here, and there's a film I'll talk about, acting. As a young kid, I decided, or, you know, my mom says I declare I want to be an actor when I was 15, and why would that person ask or say that? And I recall when acting, you know, in school, or doing Shakespeare, you know, playing Mercutio, that sense of being free was play. Like, it was fun. It was fun. Make-believe, but reality, you know, connection, a group, collaboration. Family. You know, get into that, and then, and also the imagination, it's private, it's public, it's together, it's shared. Commune, you tell a story, I love stories. You know, stories, you know, you're talking about, you know, being an example. You know, stories help us contextualize the world, help us see it. Yeah. You know, for the things that we don't know, things that we can imagine, get advice, whatever, all of those kinds of communications, and I love that about it. But, it was fun, you know, somehow being in the moment. I love when, what happens after someone says action. You know, that's the director or the first AD sometimes saying action. And then we begin, and we're in the moment, you know. We might have prepared a lot, and we have our past and our history and what we're trying to do in the story we're trying to tell, but that moment of action, or let's begin. Hee hee. That's like, it's fun. It's fun. So, I'm really grateful to be able to earn a living and have a career, you know, try and have a career, you know, something that I love, and a simple thing, just to have fun. Yeah.