Professionally referred to as the cool-girl star of “Say Anything” and different Eighties teen motion pictures, Ione Skye additionally was well-known for her tumultuous trysts and relationships with well-known males, from Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis to John Cusack, and for changing into swept up at midnight facet of Hollywood.
Luckily, it doesn’t sound like there was something too darkish about Skye’s friendship with Keanu Reeves, as she has revealed in her new, tell-all memoir, “Say Everything.” Nevertheless, she admitted that the friendship started together with her “stalking” the famously easy-going A-list actor whereas they labored collectively in her first film, “Rivers Edge,” a 1986 crime drama. Throughout the movie shoot, she additionally described how their friendship reached an necessary understanding after she unsuccessfully tried seduce him.
“Even the way he’d rejected me was charming,” Skye wrote, in line with Leisure Weekly.
Now 54 and a working artist, Skye mentioned she discovered it “hard not to stare” at Reeves whereas they labored collectively on the indie movie, about disaffected teenagers grappling the homicide of a lady by one in every of their associates, in line with Leisure Weekly. On the time, Skye was 16 and subsequently underaged, however she might have grown up shortly because the product of a bohemian, show-business childhood. Her father was “Mellow Yellow” singer Donovan.
Reeves, in the meantime, was 22. Skye mentioned she developed a “huge crush” on the long run star of “Speed” and the “Matrix” and “John Wick” motion pictures. She mentioned she believed that Reeves felt the identical method, a lot in order that she anticipated they one thing intimate would possibly occur between them when she visited him at his studio condo, as she wrote in her ebook.
On the time, Skye apparently didn’t suppose twice about pursuing an older man, most likely as a result of Eighties society wasn’t recognized for being as involved as it’s now about males getting concerned with teenage ladies. It’s additionally attainable that her recollection of their encounter could also be a bit dramatized, whereas Reeves didn’t reply to an Leisure Weekly request for remark.
In any case, Skye wrote that she moved in to kiss Reeves, however he advised her he was going to take a bathe. Skye apparently took this as an invite as a result of she adopted him into the toilet.
“Keanu turned on the water and stood with his back to me, hand in the stream, staring up at the showerhead,” Skye wrote, in line with Leisure Weekly. “I maneuvered between him and the open shower curtain, water spraying my back.”
“His beautiful neck was right there, so close I could lick it, so I did,” Skye revealed. “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,” Skye continues. “The room was thick with steam, my wet T-shirt sticking to me, wanting to be peeled off.”
However when Skye reached to unbuckle Reeve’s pants, she wrote that he grabbed her wrist to cease her. He indicated that he didn’t wish to take issues any additional.
“I broke out with a fast, shocked giggle. ‘Sorry!’” she said. But she wrote that Reeves told her, “Don’t be,” as he launched her wrist. “We were still stuck together, breathing hard,” she continued. “I pressed my face, red from the kiss and now embarrassment, into his chest.”
Skye mentioned that the older Reeves handled her kindly. “‘Let me, ah, get you a dry shirt,’” he said. “Damn,” Skye thought. “Even the way he’d rejected me was charming.”
Skye wrote that issues had been “only a little awkward on set the next day. Without saying anything, Keanu let me know he didn’t blame me for trying.”
Apparently, Reeves’ relaxed angle was helpful as they filmed extra scenes collectively, together with a intercourse scene, Skye defined. In “Rivers Edge,” they play associates of the murdered lady who bond over their shared confusion and grief. By the way, “Rivers Edge” is predicated on the real-life 1981 homicide of a 16-year-old lady in Milpitas.
Filming the intercourse scene nonetheless acquired off to an ungainly begin as a result of Skye admitted she was nonetheless interested in Reeves and sensed that he may be interested in her, too.
“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. Anybody studying this from a 2025 perspective might marvel in regards to the obvious lack of an intimacy coordinator.
Afterward, Skye and Reeves “pulled apart, a little bashful, a little breathless,” she wrote. When Reeves requested, “You good?’” Skye mentioned, “I sensed by the husky edge to his voice that it wasn’t just me who wanted more.”
“Tracing my lips to the facet of his face, I whispered, ‘Can I come to your place after wrap?’” Skye said she asked.
It sounds like Reeves let Skye come back to his studio. But she wrote that visit ended abruptly, too, when Reeves suddenly stopped kissing her and offered to drive her home.
Years later, Skye wrote, she came to the realization that she wasn’t in love with Reeves, however had an enormous crush on him. However they stayed associates, in line with Individuals journal
Reeves isn’t the one well-known man whose interactions with Skye get the highlight in her memoir, in line with Individuals. She additionally opens up about her fraught relationship together with her British father, reveals she did actually sleep together with her “Say Anything” co-star John Cusack after denying they hooked-up for years, and he or she writes about being “a serial cheater” throughout her marriage to Beastie Boys rapper Adam Horovitz, confessing that he as soon as caught her canoodling in a swimming pool with one other lady.
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