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Ione Skye had a steamy shower with Keanu Reeves before he stopped it: 'Even the way he'd rejected me was charming'

The two costarred in the 1986 movie "River's Edge."

By Raechal Shewfelt 

Updated on March 7, 2025 03:01PM EST

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Ione Skye found Keanu Reeves "hard not to stare at" when they were making the 1986 movie River's Edge, she writes in her new book, Say Everything: A Memoir. The actress described having a "huge crush" on the set of her first film, and she began "stalking" him in his trailer.

Once, she visited him at his studio apartment because she sensed he felt the same way, but he gave her a clear no, she wrote. When she tried to kiss him, he told her he was going to shower, and Skye followed him.

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"Keanu turned on the water and stood with his back to me, hand in the stream, staring up at the showerhead. I maneuvered between him and the open shower curtain, water spraying my back," she wrote. "His beautiful neck was right there, so close I could lick it, so I did. I zeroed in on his beautiful throat, sucking and making out with it. He made a low, growly noise and I felt my stomach turn nicely. 'Oh,' I heard myself say. The room was thick with steam, my wet T-shirt sticking to me, wanting to be peeled off."

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When she reached for his buckle, she wrote, he grabbed her wrist to stop her and said he didn't think he wanted to.

"I broke out with a quick, shocked laugh. 'Sorry!'" she wrote. "'No, don't be,' said Keanu, releasing my wrist. We were still stuck together, breathing hard. I pressed my face, red from the kiss and now embarrassment, into his chest."

Reeves, who was six years older, treated her kindly.

"'Let me, ah, get you a dry shirt,'" he said to her.

"Damn," Skye thought. "Even the way he'd rejected me was charming."

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Skye said things were "only a little awkward on set the next day. Without saying anything, Keanu let me know he didn't blame me for trying."

The encounter outside the shower followed several others that made her heart race.

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In one, they were working together on a sex scene, which got off to an awkward start. He told her he had forgotten and had eaten a few bites of raw onion beforehand.

"Careful not to let my hair fall over my face, I straddled Keanu and kissed him for real, moving around, parts to parts, missing sometimes and grinding on his leg or stomach," Skye wrote. Afterward, they "pulled apart, a little bashful, a little breathless. 'You good?' said Keanu, and I sensed by the husky edge to his voice that it wasn't just me who wanted more. Tracing my lips to the side of his face, I whispered, 'Can I come to your place after wrap?'"

That visit ended abruptly, too, when Reeves suddenly stopped kissing her and offered to drive her home.

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By the time she was filming her signature movie, Say Anything, a few years later, she had come to a realization: "I'd thought I loved Keanu, but that was just a crush, in retrospect."

EW has reached out to Reeves' rep for comment.

Haha MATE sex scenes with Keanu are the reason for my LIFE and also death. 

Lemme think, Top four sex scenes with Ke? Sometimes I forget if they are sex scenes or just kissing scenes because honestly, the way that man kisses?

4. The Devil’s advocate- Holy christmas! As I say I saw this very young and was  obviously scarred for life into writing smutty fic. The scene with Charlize, you know what I’m talking about- tumblr just has taken our precious gifs. I’m also partial to the bad boy snogging the face off Connie Nielsen as well.

3. MOPI- in which Keanu has sex scenes with men, women, whoever. This film is very interesting in its depiction of how meaningless (and also fun) casual sex can be, I love how it explores the difference between that and true love (both familial and romantic oh jeez she’s getting academic) let’s just say also, Keanu LOOKS like sex in this film.

2. Knock, Knock- the movie that divides everyone but he is looking like a full on DILF - shower sex, blow jobs, threesome snuggling? All good for a VERY short while.

1. Gotta be Siberia right? Full on silver fox, coat of sex, pussy diving, perverted game playing, neck holding Keanu, sorry I mean ‘Lucas Hill’

Vamps. The criminally underrated vampire-comedy starring Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter. He played Vadim. Who, among other things, did the most hilariously unsexy vampire seduction-transformation I have ever seen on film. (Which he did splendidly - seriously, this film was so good)

Behold - our-possible-Marius-or-maybe-David-Talbot!

i do like to write, but i’m scared to attempt theatrical structure, so i just scribble on things.

Like… Who do you think Lestat learned his skewed world view from? Moving to America was probably a bucket of cold water to Lestat. I would like to give Lestat the benefit of the doubt, as his father was an asshole aristocrat. Lestat quickly learned how privileged he was, even as a disgraced marquis’ son. His genuine horror at how the racist fat cats treated Louis said everything to me. I don’t think anyone understands that Lestat is interested in doing better. He is. He’s working through it. He will fuck up, because nobody ever gave him a look outside his little world.

The thing is, vampires do end up in ruin when they stay behind as the world around them goes forward. Just like humans, when we get stuck in outdated ideals. It’s heavily implied at the end of the Blood Communion novel that Marius is slowly going mad. All vampires do, at some point, go through a period of madness. Some just come out of it better than others. In the IWTV novel, Louis eats grass and mopes around his brother’s rectory for a while after Armand hesitantly leaves him. Armand kills his own coven. Khayman loses his memories for a while and wanders the world, snacking on mortals’ bone marrow. Daniel becomes mute and obsessive, luckily finding an outlet in model trains. Poor Lestat lost an eye and had to be restrained, before he slept for a long while. Thorne got tied down for a while. Benji and Sybelle. Unm. Well, Benji ended up with a podcast and Sybelle delved into the piano. And Louis, of course, tried to kill himself once— but it changed his relationship with Lestat for the better.

Okay, so I went on a meta tangent, but the point is, Marius is an even bigger fuck-up than Lestat, and covering him is going to get pretty ugly. And even more existential. I hope viewers stop and philosophize, you know? Everyone stops to question the nature of mankind and how we fall if we don’t move with time.

And as far as Marius goes, hope Justin Kirk is prepared. 😅

P.S. I swear I’m not high, just tired. 🥱

:))

(For those who think the "eating grass" is an euphemism here: "I was picking at the grass, and tasting it, though the taste was bitter and unnatural. The gesture seemed natural.":))

Marius... is going to be something. Which is part of the reason why I keep saying that Justin Kirk will be perfect if he is, because it needs a very seasoned actor with a lot of thick skin to pull him off (and, I mean, Justin does not shy away from difficult characters as we know *nods at Succession*).

It will be interesting to see what kind of wounds they will put their proverbial fingers in.

Like, the casual racism and superiority complex Marius employs has to clash with Armand's recast, too. Not necessarily with the choice (of Amadeo) per se, but with the circumstances. I am betting real money that there will be some very uncomfortable meta commentary on sex slave trade in combination with racism coming up right there (and I for one want them to make that commentary! Even though it will probably lead to more fandom drama.).

These vampires are children of their times, and they do change/adapt/grow, but... slowly. (I am not so sure about Lestat getting his world view from Marius, I think there is a reason why Lestat never became the pupil Marius wanted him to be, and I do think that Lestat might be willfully ignorant at times, which can come off a certain way, but his own backstory is more to blame here than Marius, imho.)

I do not need Marius to be a good character to enjoy the fuck out of him, on the contrary.

I am not sure if the show will go the "whip" way. They might insinuate. I think they will, as with other scenes let the mind of the audience do the rest, which will be more than enough, too. I mean, the audience can read up on it all in the book *coughs*. There's no need to go more explicit than needed.

But yes. I hope Justin Kirk is prepared :)))