Keanu Reeves was joined by his girlfriend Alexandra Grant at Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport late last week alongside his The Matrix 4 co-stars.
The esteemed actor, 55, was giggling and looking happy alongside the artist and philanthropist, 46, as he prepared to resume shooting alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Carrie-Ann Moss after things skidded to a halt amid coronavirus.
The Matrix 4 will be released in 2021 and production began in early January with Lana Wachowski returning as co-writing and director, and while filming stopped in Berlin in March the stars were returning to the German capital on Sunday.
He’s back! Keanu Reeves was joined by his girlfriend Alexandra Grant at Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport late last week alongside his The Matrix 4 co-stars
She said in a statement: ‘Many of the ideas Lilly and I explored 20 years ago about our reality are even more relevant now. I’m very happy to have these characters back in my life and grateful for another chance to work with my brilliant friends.’
Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell co-wrote the Matrix 4 script alongside Wachowski. Keanu is again playing Neo with Carrie-Ann Moss back as well.
The Matrix 4 will also also feature Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who’s best known to audiences as Black Manta in 2018’s Aquaman.
Reeves’ next film is the next Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure with Alex Winter.
Happy days: The esteemed actor, 55, was giggling and looking happy alongside the artist and philanthropist, 46, as he prepared to resume shooting alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Carrie-Ann Moss after things skidded to a halt amid coronavirus
Ever since Reeves and Grant went public in November, there has been much speculation about when they first started dating.
Some publications said they had been romantic for only a few months but then earlier this month Jennifer Tilly told Page Six that they had been an item for ‘years.’
Grant is an artist and philanthropist. Born in Ohio, Alexandra has been working in the arts since graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994 with a BA in history and studio art.
The artist is known for her use of language and exchanges with writers as a source for imagery in her sculpture, painting, drawing, and video works.
‘I never thought that it would happen,’ Carrie-Anne told Empire ‘It was never on my radar at all. When it was brought to me in the way that it was brought to me, with incredible depth and all of the integrity and artistry that you could imagine, I was like, “This is a gift.”‘
Elegant: Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Trinity in the franchise, was also in tow
The talented artist fostered her love for the spoken word as a child, after growing up around the world, living in Mexico, Spain and France.
She has exhibited at prestigious spaces around the world including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Galerie Gradiva in Paris and The Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York.
In 2008, Alexandra founded the philanthropic grantLOVE project which produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects and arts non-profits.
Star: It was revealed in October that Neil Patrick Harris was added to the ensemble cast
Happy days: Alexandra slotted in to the group happily
Alexandra and Keanu have a history that goes back years, first collaborating together on a grown-up’s picture book, Ode to Happiness, in 2011.
The book was a success, sparking the poet-artist duo to create their second book together, Shadows, in 2016, with Grant photographing Reeves while he was filming John Wick.
Since then, the two have been spotted together at art galleries, book signings, posed for Vogue Spain and even traveled to Germany to work together.
Speaking of working together on their second book, Grant told W Magazine: ‘We can spend a lot of time debating. Like, A raspberry hue? And should it be darker? We can get obsessive.’
The Matrix 4: The Matrix franchise is the brainchild of transgender sisters Lana and Lilly Wachowski who created and wrote the billion dollar trilogy and the pair are returning to helm the fourth film which began filming in San Francisco in February (pictured)
Shadows is compiled of dark silhouette images of Reeves taken by Grant and poetry written by the Matrix actor.
Grant told the LA Times of her collaborator: ‘No one can move the way he can. He’s a really extreme performer. That’s a huge piece of why those images are so interesting…
‘I knew that if I moved the camera as we danced together, as photographer and subject, we could create these wonderful optical illusions.’
The two founded publishing company X Artists’ Books in 2017, with a focus on ‘unusual collaborations’ and books that ‘don’t really have a place because they’re between genres’.
Low-key: Keanu was casually clad as he arrived in Germany