There’s a photo that’s been skidding around the internet.
It shows Keanu Reeves, whose career has been reignited by the success of the John Wick franchise and his brilliantly self-deprecating turn in the Netflix rom-com Always Be My Maybe, sitting on a couch with a smiling, bespectacled older East Asian woman in a flowered print top.
In truth, the picture itself isn’t particularly notable.
It’s actually the image’s whimsically spelled caption that has made the meme go viral: “Keanu Reeve’s grandma is Chinese Haiwaiian.”
That Reeves has Asian Pacific Islander heritage isn’t exactly new information.
From his earliest initiation into Hollywood, Reeves has always been referred to as the “son
Jul 17, 2019