O’Donnell explained Reeves’ 1997 appearance on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” to Australian talk show host Sam Pang after naming her favorite guest, Barbra Streisand, and best guest, Martin Short.
“One of the worst, who, I love the guy, but he’s not good on talk shows: Keanu Reeves,” O’Donnell revealed Monday to a surprised audience on “Sam Pang Tonight.”
“He’s so sweet, he looks gorgeous, I love all his movies, but he would not answer a question,” she continued. “I’d say, ‘So, Keanu, how’s it going? How are you feeling?’ ‘Good.’ … We were live. We couldn’t retape. I finally said after like three minutes, ‘You know, Keanu, it is a talk show. You have to talk.’”
“But he did come back, and he got the hang of it,” she said. “But he’s a lovely man and a good-hearted guy, so I don’t wanna throw him under the bus.” (A joke, perhaps, about Reeves’ 1994 actioner “Speed,” which involved a bomb-rigged bus?)
“I could have said Tom Selleck, which would have been easier to do,” she said, referring to her famous clash with the actor over gun reform and the NRA after the Columbine massacre in 1999.
Fast-forward to 7:30 for O’Donnell’s surprising take on Reeves:
For O’Donnell’s reminder to Reeves that he’s on a talk show, fast-forward to 2:20:
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