Keanu: childhood, youth and the moments of glory. Book #1. Yevgeniya Sikhimbayeva
for a long time..
Virgos are usually calm outside, but their minds never rest. They have thousands of thoughts, reflections on this or that. This restless mind always forces them to analyze every aspect of a situation or person, and they rarely make false judgments. They do not leave details unnoticed. Such an analytical and methodological approach is their strength, helping them succeed in life.
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Anyway, after some time and a certain number of sessions, everyone decided that Keanu was better. Well, let it be so.
In fact, he led the life of an ordinary teenager. Together with others he made karts and skateboards, on which the boys drove around the blocks, competing for the honorary title «The Fastest». On his home-made skateboard, Keanu mastered all kinds of tricks on wheels. Like everyone else. Naughty, however, not particularly naughty. They didn’t even do graffiti. The worst that teenagers in Toronto then allowed themselves was to throw chestnuts at teachers.
Like everyone else, Keanu was fond of rock music… more of punk style. (If you are interested in which bands Keanu listened to, here they are: Agent Orange, Pixies, Discharge, Husker Du, Sham 69 … to be honest, when I tried to listen, it took me about three minutes… but it was what it was). Like everyone else he tried to perform something on the bass himself, bringing the volume of the amplifier to such a level that it seemed that walls were about to crack…. Well, everything similar to others.
Oh yes he also had to go to school. With school Keanu had faced major problems. Patricia was able to bring «a lot of love, but little discipline» to her children, so it was an extraordinary event for Keanu to just come to school on time. After five years of study, he changed four educational institutions: (I got kicked out of one and I stopped going to one, and I switched from another, and another one I quit.) Because it was insanely difficult for him to fit into the team. A shy guy, together with being a leftie and dyslexic, is the most suitable candidate for studying in a regular municipal school. «I was a loner in high school,» he says. «I wasn’t like a lot of my peers.» Did his classmates bully him? Quite possibly – if a person, without going into details, says that in school years he played the role of a jester (I was kinda shy in school, but I also had the class-clown element about me.) – this makes you wonder you know.
One of the schools was Jesse Ketchum Public School (61 Davenport). A year after Keanu left this school, it earned the first Elmer the Safety Elephant prize in 1978—79 without incident. I wonder if these two events are related?
One of his teachers, Donald Mason, said: «There would be times when Keanu would be around the school late in the evening, long after most kids had gone home. He would be shooting baskets on his own».
Then came the North Toronto Collegiate Institute (North Toronto CI, NTCI. Or North Toronto) (70 Roehampton), in which Keanu was forced to do many things. Although the school’s motto – «Labor Omnia Vincit» – which means something like «Patience and labor will rub everything», he may have taken it into service.
No, Keanu was neither a rebel, nor a lazy person, nor stupid. He simply did not quite understand what he was doing here. Although, his childhood dreams of the future suggested education: he wanted to be a racer, inventor, nuclear physicist and orchestra conductor. Roughly in this order. Interestingly, the actor’s profession was not on that list.
Being an Earth sign, Virgo relies on a physical body, real and reliable. She can come up with the best pragmatic solution for any problem, because her thoughts are based on reality, not imagination. Virgo does not live in a fantasy world, she firmly holds on the ground in her intelligent reality.
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What remained was to look for an alternative to school. «Sometimes I regret not finishing high school, but I was just trying to live my life.»
Keanu seriously went in for sports – basketball – and of course hockey, a Canadian boy who is not interested in this sport is nonsense. «I was raised in Toronto from the time I was six years old. I learned very quickly that if you don’t know how to play hockey in Canada your peers can make life miserable for you. It’s a lesson I’m grateful for».
In hockey, he unexpectedly succeeded, and even thought about a professional career. Most of all he liked to stand as a goalie – this required the ability to concentrate, wait, and then immediately and correctly respond, like a predator sitting in an ambush. (Many years later, one of his bodyguards, who worked with Keanu in St. Petersburg, Victoria Korchagina, would note these qualities in him, saying that his stillness is that of a predator). It was almost impossible to score the puck if Keanu was standing at the goal – he was not afraid to stop the puck with his whole body, which is unsafe. In the team for his goalkeeper abilities, he received the nickname «Wall», and while studying at De La Salle College (131 Farnham), (De La Salle College «Oaklands» (De La Salle College, Toronto, or De La Salle), is actually a private, independent joint educational Catholic school in the Roman Catholic tradition, which was founded in 1679 in Reims, France by Jean – Batiste de la Salle (also the patron saint of the college). How on earth did Keanu end up there? And was even called the «Player of the Year», while receiving an F in French.
But while Keanu sailed through life, as they say, without a rudder and sails, not really imagining where the curve would lead him. While he was growing up, he had his first teenage pimples, girls became interested in him… somewhere in the eighth grade he first tried drugs – not seriously – but he liked the effect they produced. He eventually turned on his lifetime path, as it usually happens, almost randomly, but things did not go smoothly right away.
Not at all.
I come from a broken home. – in early interviews with Keanu, this phrase flickers quite frequently. In fact, everything is simple and clear for the child – if you were left, then you are bad. Growing up, you understand that everything is not so simple and the relationship of two adults does not depend on you, but… children’s belief goes into the subconscious and sometimes appears in strange forms. Some (most often women) break down into a disastrous tailspin of «earning» love – relationships turn into hard work for them. If everything is easy and simple and they are loved because they love – then this is not true love! Therefore, an emotionally inaccessible partner is most often chosen for a relationship – very often with the same emotional trauma from childhood. And here the fear of betrayal comes into play – and they will betray imminently- because they betrayed once – and I’m bad – so I deserve it! Is it funny? – Keep laughing…
My dad, I have no idea what he’s doing. I don’t talk to him. I’m one of those kids without a dad. Sure. It’s the classic story.“ Has it affected him? „Yeah, man, I’m sure. I mean it’s something that I’ve only started to really think about in the past five years I guess, I mean… what does it mean? I’m a lot like my father. I have a lot of his physical things… the way I laugh… I saw him last I guess when I was fifteen, about ten minutes. Yeah, man, of course it’s heavy. Does he ever see himself improving his relationship with his father? «No, man. It doesn’t matter. As long as I understand in my head there’s no love there or there’s no even curiosity. I feel I understand why it’s happened, how it’s happened, blah, blah, blah.6»
Keanu was lucky – he found where to send destructive energy. Namely, to realize it through acting.
«Acting is the only thing that keeps me still. If I’m not acting, I bounce off wall. My teachers thought it was sugar, but they were wrong».
Keanu’s introduction to a professional theater,
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