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\u201cI got paid when I was like 16, so I was a professional actor around 16, 17 [years old],\u201d Reeves said. \u201cI was in Toronto, Canada, and then I got a manager who lived in Los Angeles\u2026. At 20 years old, I drove in my car to Los Angeles. Got out of my car and my manager said, \u2018We want to change your name.\u2019 So that\u2019s like, a welcome to Hollywood [moment]. I remember I was walking on the beach and I was just like, \u2018My name? What if I change my name? What?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
His manager\u2019s request sent Reeves into an existential spiral. Then Reeves started brainstorming what he could possibly change his name to if he wanted to be a Hollywood performer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy middle name is Charles,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Keanu Reeves revealed on the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast that his manager was adamant about changing the actor\u2019s name when he first arrived in Hollywood as a teenager. \u201cI got paid when I was like 16, so I was a professional actor around 16, 17 [years old],\u201d Reeves said. \u201cI was in Toronto, Canada, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2095668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Keanu-Reeves-Manager-Told-Him-to-Change-His-Name-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095670,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095668\/revisions\/2095670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}