Does Pic Show Keanu Eating Ice Cream at a Movie Theater?
A photograph shows Keanu Reeves eating an ice cream cone in 2020, which is unrelated to an incident in 2001, when he reportedly bought an ice cream cone just so he would have a receipt to autograph for a young theater employee. The actor Keanu Reeves is so beloved that hes a cultural fixture, to the extent that he has his own viral stories and memes. Many of the stories about him arent true. But a story about Reeves posted to LinkedIn in late June 2021 appeared to conflate two Reeves yarns, or at least lead some to believe they were one and the same. Posted by LinkedIn user Daniel Abrahams, the story pulls together a 2019 Twitter thread written by SB Nation writer James Dalton. Dalton, honoring the release of the Reeves film John Wick: Chapter 3  Parabellum, recounted a story from 2001. Dalton said Reeves came to the movie theater Dalton worked at in Sydney, Australia, and bought an ice cream cone from the concession stand just so he would have a receipt to autograph for Dalton. I realize later that he bought an ice cream cone he didnt want, just to get receipt paper so he could scribble his autograph for a 16-year-old idiot.  James Dator (@James_Dator) May 17, 2019  The LinkedIn post also included a photograph of Reeves eating an ice cream cone. But that photograph didnt show Reeves at a movie theater 20 years prior to this writing. Instead, it showed Reeves eating an ice cream in 2020, outside a Baskin Robbins shop in the Bay Area city of Alameda, California. In that latter instance, Jose De Leon and Yahoska Martinez spotted Reeves and asked for a picture. In other words, the ice cream incident detailed in the LinkedIn post, as originally recounted by Dalton, happened almost 20 years before Reeves was spotted in Alameda in 2020.