Matthew Perry keeps trying make amends for the crude irony -which some see as an insult- which he did to Keanu Reeves in his memoir Friends, lovers and the big awful thing.
There, Matthew Perry, one of the six stars of the television sitcom Friends, spawned a tremendous controversy when he mentioned Keanu Reeves while paying tribute to the late actor River Phoenix.
“River was a beautiful man, inside and out; he turned out to be too good for this world, ”perry wrote in the book. “It always seems that it is the really talented guys who go down. Because original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves is still walking among us?”, He wondered.
And then he continued: “River was a better actor than me; he was funnier. But when I think back, I definitely stood up to the scenes we did together, which is no small thing.”
Perry’s apology
Keanu Reeves personality as one of the best actors in Hollywood and the friendship he formed with River Phoenix during filming my private world (My private Idahoin the original), made many readers of Perry’s book they were offended by that paragraph and they find it in bad taste.
Something Perry eventually agreed with, to the point of publicly apologizing to Reeves.
“In fact, I’m a huge fan of Keanu,” Perry said in a statement shortly after the book’s release. “I just picked a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my first name instead.”
Now, the actor is determined to take it one step further. On Saturday, April 22, Perry was in attendance at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. In that place, the actor friends he promised to remove Reeves’ name of future editions of his memoirs.
“I said stupid. It was a bad thing to do,” Perry said. “I took his name because I live on the same street. I publicly apologized to him. Any future version of the book will not be named after him, ”he assured those present.
Matthew Perry added that despite living on the same street as Keanu Reeves, he hasn’t yet had a chance to personally apologize to the star. john wick. But the actor has insisted that he has no objection to doing so and plans to apologize if they meet face-to-face.
“If I meet Keanu, I will apologize,” she said. “Mine was just stupid.”
Source: Clarin
