{"id":379884,"date":"2026-10-05T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=379884"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:24:04","slug":"a-famous-film-director-confesses-to-viscerally-hating-keanu-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-famous-film-director-confesses-to-viscerally-hating-keanu-reeves\/","title":{"rendered":"A famous film director confesses to viscerally hating Keanu Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keanu Reeves is one of the few Hollywood actors who is almost universally adored. Not only among the public, who see him as a friendly face and an adorable person, but also among professionals. <strong>Among his colleagues everyone has kind words for the actor, considered a consummate professional and a lovely person<\/strong>. Or almost everyone. Because director Troy Duffy doesn&#8217;t hold the actor in that regard.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A director with a few strong dislikes<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The director of The Fifth Hell and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, only has one thing to say about the actor: <strong>\u201cI hate Keanu Reeves. He seems like an imbecile to me. I will never make a film with him\u201d<\/strong>. But in fairness, he&#8217;s not the only actor he&#8217;s gone off about at length. He has also declared that \u201cEthan Hawke is a talentless idiot,\u201d all of it in the context of the documentary Overnight, directed by Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith, following his life and exploits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"IMDb\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/41a6e8ea-9b61-11e6-98e4-00163ec9f5fa\/1359988889\/imdb-ripper-icon.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">IMDb<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/imdb-ripper.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/imdb-ripper.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did he make these comments? Actually, we don&#8217;t know.<strong> Both actors were up for roles in his films, but never ended up appearing in them, so it could very well be due to resentment or something could have happened between them<\/strong>. But the documentary itself presents Duffy as a person with serious ego problems and an abusive personality that suggests it&#8217;s hardly a problem with Reeves and Hawke.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While over the years Duffy himself has said he regrets some of his comments, he has never clarified which ones nor why he made them in the first place. <strong>So while it seems Reeves has someone in Hollywood who hates him, it seems it&#8217;s not for any good reason<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanu Reeves is one of the few Hollywood actors who is almost universally adored. Not only among the public, who see him as a friendly face and an adorable person, but also among professionals. Among his colleagues everyone has kind words for the actor, considered a consummate professional and a lovely person. Or almost everyone. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-famous-film-director-confesses-to-viscerally-hating-keanu-reeves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A famous film director confesses to viscerally hating Keanu Reeves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":379883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-379884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379892,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379884\/revisions\/379892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379884"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=379884"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=379884"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=379884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}