He expressed regret at some disparaging comments he’d made about the 'John Wick' and 'Matrix' franchises star. Photo: TNS
Matthew Perry will take out future references to Keanu Reeves from his tell-all memoir, the Friends actor pledged recently.
Speaking at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Perry expressed regret at some disparaging comments he’d made about the John Wick and Matrix franchises star.
“Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?” Perry, 53, wrote in Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing, which came out last year.
The memoir details his battle with addiction and how Friends helped him cope, among other details of his life.
He later apologised for the Reeves diss.
“I’m actually a big fan of Keanu,” Perry said in November. “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologise. I should have used my own name instead.”
On Saturday (April 22) afternoon, he went a step further.
“I said a stupid thing. It was a mean thing to do,” Perry told a packed USC Bovard Auditorium. “I pulled his name because I live on the same street. I’ve apologised publicly to him. Any future versions of the book will not have his name in it.”
Perry vowed to do the same privately if he encounters Reeves.
“If I run into the guy, I’ll apologise,” he said on the panel moderated by L.A. Times deputy arts and entertainment editor Matt Brennan. “It was just stupid.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
