# Talk:Keanu Reeves

We've had repeated changes to the lead image recently:

File:LanaDRPrimavera310524 (10 of 155) (cropped).jpg: image from 31 May 2024, used prior to 21 July 2025
File:Reunião com o ator norte-americano Keanu Reeves (46806576944) (cropped).jpg: image from 3 April 2019, added by user:Discospinster on 21 July 2025
File:Keanu Reeves at TIFF 2025 02 (Cropped).jpg: image from 6 September 2025, added by user:SilverBullitt on 9 September 2025
File:Keanu Reeves 2019 (cropped).jpg: image from 3 April 2019 (apparently from the same event as as image 2), added by user:Emiya1980  on 13 September 2025
Since then image 3 has been restored once by user:Ggoofy14 and three times by user:BarntToust, while image 4 has been restored three times by Emiya1980. Let's just pick one and be done with it. In my opinion we should use either image 1 or the slightly newer image 3. I see no reason we should choose either of the six-year-old images.  Meters (talk) 00:50, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Yep, the one at Primavera sound was 2024, this one from TIFF 2025 is one with Reeves's typical long locks. Emiya seems unable to understand that people in their 60s just tend to look the way they do—the composition of the shot and quality of the shot itself is superb, it is just that in the 2025 TIFF photos Reeves happens to show the look of 5 years' age on him compared to the 2019 São Paulo government pictures. This is not wrong or bad or misrepresenting of Reeves, he just does not happen to look young anymore, and for it it seems that issue is taken for no good reason. BarntToust 00:56, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
And in Reeves's case it's not even that bad of aging, while other Hollywood types like James Gunn or Oscar Isaac have aged like 20 years since 2017, yet just because they've gone grey/white and gotten a few wrinkles, this does not mean we use outdated infobox images of them—no, the practice of deliberate selection of prime-time-of-life images is typically left until BLP subjects have died. BarntToust 01:01, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
I'd say image 3, as it's the newest, fairly neutral, great quality and also has his most-recognizable hairstyle. He may a larger beard than usual but that's just the age he's at. Fully agree with what BarntToast says here also.  Ggoofy14 (talk) 01:42, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
I would accept either image 1 or 3, but I agree that image 3 is the best choice. It's the most recent, and a good quality image. I have no idea why anyone would describe this as "look[ing] more like a homeless man than a celebrity actor" compared to his appearance in images 2 and 4. Meters (talk) 02:37, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
I have no idea who set "having a bit of a grown-out salt and pepper beard" as the qualification for looking like a homeless man, but that is just so unfair. I think I'd like whoever it is to have a word with my WikiLawyer! BarntToust 04:45, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
Image 4 for reasons already provided in my most recent edits to this page. Emiya1980 (talk) 08:15, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
I just have so many questions pertaining to your rationale about these images. If I really wanted to, I could email oversight about your edit summaries describing Reeves in these images as "look[ing] like a homeless man", as textbook WP:BLPVIO. But instead, I'm going to suggest you just find somewhere else to edit—your input on this matter is only baffling in its subversion of logical expectations and not of additive value. BarntToust 23:41, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
Your attempts to threaten me into silence are not appreciated. I was invited to this discussion thread. Therefore, I have a right to offer my opinion. I maintain my position it is a needlessly unflattering image of the man and therefore not appropriate for purposes of the article. Emiya1980 (talk) 00:41, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
@BarntToust: In all honesty, I do not care about this page enough to risk being dragged before the admin noticeboard by an editor with a battleground mentality. If you want an unflattering image of Keanu Reeves as the lead image, be my guest. That being said, I do not appreciate being threatened with sanctions simply for the reasons I provided for opposing your position. I recommend that you read this essay before engaging other editors again in such a high-handed manner. Emiya1980 (talk) 01:00, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
How exactly does being 61 and having a bit of a grown out beard make someone look homeless? This photograph wasn't taken candidly, in some out-of-pocket random encounter at a terrible sleep-deprived moment for Reeves at Starbucks at 7:00am, this was taken at the Toronto Film Festival for a premiere of one of his films, at a photoshoot typical of these things. He is dressed normally, with a regular expression, looking nothing out of the normal for someone his age. You were invited to discuss on this page. There is clearly no proper way to objectively correctly appraise a work of photography, however, your input is not anywhere on the subjective metric of being insightful or properly critical of the photo. I am glad you are electing to edit elsewhere where you are providing value to the area. BarntToust 01:02, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
And I hate to sound like a dickhead when talking about Reeves, because he is literally the moral yardstick that we all as human beings would doubtlessly benefit from saying, "what would Keanu do?" in our daily lives, but, man, this dude never is particularly expressive, not in acting, not when existing as a person. He is typically a naturally seeming gruff person without much random smiling. He didn't smile big in São Paulo in 2019, he didn't smile for the camera here.
And looking at a typical Hollywood type, they are all outrageously ridiculous. Ozempic, Botox, plastic surgery, high fashion statements with ridiculous style (hell, remember when Jaden Smith went out wearing black cardboard boxes?)—that is literally the norm for those people. Yes, it looks uncanny, not normal, wrong, when (if what we hear about him is true) a 61 year old dude who dresses pretty modestly, doesn't modify their body like it's Cyberpunk 2077, and doesn't have a big put-on-for-PR grin of Hollywood teeth, when a guy like this simply exists. It is wholly against the grain for a guy like Reeves exist, to look like he does. Reeves literally looks nothing like 97% of his industry peers—he is a dose of natural-ity, of normalcy, when compared by the standards of fake, prim, ridiculous Hollywood stereotype of Hollywood actor that are actually more common reality than stereotypical. Hell yeah, it throws a person off to look at someone whose every facet of being is a stark cry off from his peers. But is this bad? No. Does it mean an image reflecting the reality of his being is bad because it looks nothing like the status quo? No. Hell, I'd agree with you and say this image does violate neutrality standards—it is a statement piece about him. That he is, well, what I have ranted about above. BarntToust 01:14, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
So what I'm saying is, look at the picture of him by his standards, not by the standards of everyone else unlike him. Don't even let the idea cross your mind that a good picture of him should be one where he isn't softly scowling—read his Personal life section, and you'd understand why a smile from him ain't an expectation. Don't think he should fit some bill of looks. The idea of there being a standard for how one of these Hollywood types typically looks is the result of seeing literally every famous actor being vainly fancied-up, hair dye, caked-on-makeup, indulgent fashion choices, and being exposed to this as a norm, this sets an unhealthy standard for how to look at one of these Hollywood types. Nah, this guy doesn't play by those rules. Essentially, I think this is a problem of comparison, which comparison between one person and "other" is rarely fair and surely this case isn't the exemption to that generalization. I don't think your issue with this image is the result of a fair, inherent appraisal of him, rather the result of being completely taken aback when a Hollywood actor doesn't look like a makeup doll. BarntToust 01:31, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
And I mean, look at one of the DYKs for today: Mar-a-Lago face. I mean, I understand your appraisal for famous people pretty well—when you get exposed to Mar-a-Lago face enough that is becomes the standard for how you think these famous people are meant to look, it looks uncanny when a famous person simply exists looking not unlike your neighbor Greg. BarntToust 01:40, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Keanu Reeves is not married. This is a rumor. Shame on you. I even donate to this page for accuracy. Look it up. MerelyVix (talk) 00:41, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Article doesn't say he's married, says he's dating someone. If you'd like something changed, please specify & provide sources. Nubzor [T][C] 02:15, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
The article does not say he is married. Meters (talk) 00:07, 29 September 2025 (UTC)