Alexandra Grant Reveals Insights on Her 'Inspirational' Boyfriend Keanu Reeves

 

Alexandra Grant Reveals Insights on Her 'Inspirational' Boyfriend Keanu Reeves

Alexandra Grant Sheds Light on Relationship with Keanu Reeves

Renowned visual artist Alexandra Grant, at the age of 50, recently graced the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards solo, without her partner Keanu Reeves, who is 59. When questioned about the experience of walking the red carpet alone, she provided an insightful response.

Grant explained, "The good news about falling in love as an adult is that I had built my own career by the time that my relationship had begun. I feel very confident in the relationship on the red carpet. I feel confident on it alone. It's interdependent and independent in the best ways."

While she attended the awards ceremony alone, Grant and Reeves, who went public with their relationship in 2019, have been seen together at various events.

When discussing how they navigate each other's professional worlds, Grant recounted a moment of creative frustration. "In a moment of frustration in my life, I once said, 'Sometimes I feel like a Maserati stuck in traffic,' that I have this big engine, but, for a variety of reasons, I couldn't ever go. And I know a lot of people feel frustrated in their lives, that they're not able to run their engine."

She added, "I think every creative person feels that way. What I love about Keanu and our exchange is that we're pushing each other to build new roads. Seeing the other person's problem-solving is inspiring, like, ‘Oh, well, okay, this one, that's a cul-de-sac. How do I try this other thing?’ He's such an inspiration to me. He's so creative, he's so kind. He works so hard."

Grant emphasized the importance of storytelling in their respective careers. "My work is much more of a private performance, but I have a text that I interpret in the studio into a painting, into an object. He takes the text in private and then turns it into a performance in public. There's a relationship. We're both at the heart readers and researchers. We both care about people and we care about characters."

She drew parallels between their creative worlds using a metaphor, saying, "Sometimes I feel like, to make a film, as we're seeing now in the strike, that it's a cruise ship. Everyone is dependent on everyone else. You can't go off and—being an artist, maybe at the beginning of my career, I was in a kayak on the sea of creativity. Now maybe it's a small speedboat, but it's still a lot more nimble."

She continued, "To make a film, you require hundreds of people. To be an artist, you don't. You require one. You require a community to get the work into the world, but not to actually make it. I think part of the inspiration is the differences of scale."

Grant noted that her art has evolved positively since her relationship with Reeves began. "I had a studio visit a few years ago, and this very kind, very high-level person said, 'I can see that your work has gotten happier.' That's real. We're all human beings. We're animals. We're expressing from where we are and certainly feeling happier. I think the work is happier."

Both Grant and Reeves dedicated their Friday nights to art, with Reeves performing with his band Dogstar. Grant expressed pride in her partner's musical pursuits, saying, "I am a huge Dogstar fan. I had the great pleasure of going to their first public show, and because I've been listening to the latest album for quite some time, I was one of the only people in the audience who knew all the lyrics. That was really cool. It's fun. It's beyond fun."

She added, "I'm so proud and happy for Reeves' alternative rock band, which reunited this year for the first time in 20 years. I'm glad they're able to do it, especially during the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA strikes. They had been playing music and rehearsing and they had already recorded most of the album before the strike. What it opened up was more time to go on the road."