My full name is Keanu Charles Reeves. I was born on September 2, 1964. My mother was a very creative person and she was crazy about rare names. So she called me Keanu, which means “cool breeze over the mountains» in Hawaiian. As you see, Hawaiian is actually a picture language, and in many cases it deals with concepts or ideas more than just specific words. Unfortunately when I was two, my parents divorced and went their separate ways. I occasionally visited my father in Hawaii until I was thirteen. That was the last time I saw him. My father was sentenced to ten years in prison for drug possession. And we haven’t maintained contact with each other since then.
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Dear James,
thank you so much! This a beautiful recording. I teach English-Russian translation class. You have recorded the first part of the interview with Keanu Reeves that I have prepared for my students to interpret. I was wondering if you could record the rest of the interview?