Alexandra Grant details life with Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves‘Long-term partner, Alexandra Grantknows better than anyone how dedicated the actor was to getting his character right – Even at home.

“I think we (just) share a belief in (our) projects,” Grant, a 53-year-old visual artist, told us people On Thursday, May 28, she and Reeves’ dedication their creative pursuits. “Every project has its own autonomy, its own team, its own rules, and it has a beginning, a middle and an end.”

“So we’re both people working on projects, you know, I live with John Wick, I live with Neo,” she explained, referring to Reeves’ iconic role in John Wick. action movie series With Neo The Matrix Movie.

Reeves, 61, created the character of hacker Thomas Anderson, better known as Neo because 1999 The Matrix He has since been played in three more films. Since 2014, he has played John Wick in four films John Wick. He also reprized the role in the 2025 film ballerina.

grant, once romantically linked has been working with the actor since 2017, shared, “Like, when he plays a character, I really respect that understanding that this is the middle to the end of a project, right?”

“The same goes for painting,” she notes. Grant, who has exhibited her work around the world, adds, “When I’m in painter mode, I’m in it. I’m totally immersed in it, and it’s not playing a character, it’s performing, and you know, painting is actually a form of performance as well.”

Grant and Reeves began connecting professionally while filming the 2011 film Ode to happinessa book written by him and illustrated by Grant.

The couple subsequently co-founded a publishing house, X Artists’ Books (XAB), in 2017, two years before they went public with their relationship. (November 2019, US Weekly It was confirmed that Reeves and Grant began dating in the summer of 2017. )

Grant said the core of their romance was a “respect” for each other and a love of art.

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“I would say the key is mutual respect and being like, come on, this is a game, right? This is a game we can play creatively,” Grant explained Thursday, noting that over time she and Reeves learned how to work together on their creativity.

The LOVEwine founder noted that Reeves is “always very appreciative” and “discreet” of feedback, something she’s also good at.

“You want to always be respectful and leave Another person bakes a cake. Just talking about my love makes me sweat. Grant gushed. “What I’m saying is that there are a lot of people in the world listening and we know that we can talk about any issue or challenge or idea and we can talk about it forever if we need to, while also respecting the individual’s need to delve deeper and have a quiet process or in another collaboration maybe.” “