Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves’ Friendship Timeline

Sandra Bullock met Keanu Reeves for the first time on the set in 1994. “Speed,”where they starred together as love interest.

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Bullock plays Annie, Reeves is Jack “Speed.”

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Reeves and Bullock They weren’t the first to choose.They were chosen for their roles of Jack Traven, Annie Porter, and respectively. Jan de Bont, the film’s director, ultimately chose both actors, which began a long friendship that has lasted decades.

In a 1994 Interview with Entertainment Weekly about the movieBullock spoke about how she auditioned for the role to check her chemistry and chemistry with Reeves.

“We had to do all these really physical scenes together, rolling around on the floor and stuff. At one point Keanu stumbled into me and sort of grabbed my butt,”She spoke. “I asked him, ‘Are you copping a feel?’ He got all panicky and was like, ‘Nooooo! I wasn’t!’ I was like, ‘Relax, Keanu. Just kidding.”‘

Bullock and Reeves were so in love with each other that they won the Best On-Screen Couple Award at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards.

Sandra Bullock at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards

Bullock was at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards. There, she won Best Female Perform and Most Desirable Female. Reeves also received the Best on-Screen Duo award.

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They also had strong off-screen relationships.

Promoting “Speed”Reeves waxed poetic in 1994 interview. Bullock is available for collaboration. “She has such a wonderful energy about her and life,”He said. “Wherever she goes, she really gives and wants things to be…springtime. I’ve enjoyed her company immensely. Oh yeah, she’s a really great actress, too.”

They reunited over a decade later in 2006’s “The Next Time”. “The Lake House.”

JUNE 13: Actors Keanu Reeves (L) and Sandra Bullock arrive at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Lake House" at the Cinerama Dome on June 13, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. (

Reeves, Bullock arrive at Warner Bros. Pictures’ premiere “The Lake House”At the Cinerama Dome

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The romance/fantasy film brought them together as romantic interests.

During Interview with Entertainment Weekly, 2006.To promote “The Lake House,”The two were asked how it felt to work again together so many years later after their first meeting. “Speed.”

“I can’t explain in words why Sandra and I have chemistry on screen or why we work well together,”EW was informed by Reeves. “We just do, and I’m glad because I like her tremendously as a person. I always enjoy watching her work. She is funny as all heck, smart as whip…. It was great to have some life under our belts since the last time we worked together.”

EW confirmed Bullock’s confirmation to Bullock that she and Reeves were married “kept in touch over the years”Since Starring in “Speed”And that she had written letters to him to see how he was doing.

“Every time I heard he had an accident I’d call to make sure he was okay. We have some mutual friends and we had a few dinner dates, but it was still unfamiliar enough where it made filming an intimate, risky film like this still scary and exhilarating,”Bullock spoke highly of their work “The Lake House.”

They were presented together at 2006’s 76th Academy Awards.

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Reeves, Bullock and others on the red carpet of the 78th Annual Academy Awards.

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They walked the red-carpet together, even though they were not presenting.

They continued the awards circuit in 2006 at the MTV Movie Awards.

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Bullock and Reeves co-presented the 2006 MTV Movie Awards.

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Both were beaming with joy as they presented at MTV Movie Awards 2006.

They won “Choice Liplock”For “The Lake House”At the 2006 Teen Choice Awards.

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Bullock and Reeves accept the Choice Liplock Award “The Lake House.”

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They joked about the “passionate”Bullock, who was then married, couldn’t do it again because of her marriage. Reeves laughed and asked, “Was she married when they did the kiss?”

Reeves presented Bullock with the award in 2014. “Decade of Hotness”Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards presented this award.

Actors Keanu Reeves (L) and Sandra Bullock speak onstage at Spike TV's "Guys Choice 2014" at Sony Pictures Studios on June 7, 2014

Reeves, Bullock and others speak on stage at Spike TV’s Guys Choice 2014.

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Bullock was presented with the award by Matthew McConaughey (reeves), Hugh Grant (hugh grant). Bullock was touched by Reeves’ speech, which brought her to tears.

“Sandra, your heart, your soul, your light, your talent that you share with all of us is amazing and wonderful and extraordinary,” Reeves said, Entertainment Tonight. “You are one of a kind and you are definitely, definitely hot!”

Reeves named Bullock in 2014 as the most famous movie star he knew.

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Bullock and Reeves arrive to the European Premiere “The Lake House”Vue West End, London, England on June 19, 2006.

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You can find out more at 2014 Reddit AMAOne fan asked Reeves about the greatest movie star with whom he had worked.

“Uh, let’s see,” Reeves answered.“The biggest movie star I’m friends with would be… uh… Sandra Bullock! Yeah, through the years we kinda get together, have a dinner, catch up, see how it’s going.”

On December 18, 2018, she made an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,”Bullock admitted that he had a crush upon Reeves while they were filming “Speed”More than 20 years earlier.

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Bullock “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

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Bullock was seen on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”In 2018, she revealed her crush on Reeves during filming “Speed”She said it was not mutual.

“I think about how sweet Keanu Reeves is and how handsome he was,”The “Bird Box”Star said. “It was hard. It was hard for me to really be serious.”

“Never dated him. I guess there was something about me, I guess he didn’t like,”She continued.

Appearing on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”Reeves admitted that the crush was mutual in May 2019.

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Reeves “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

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Bullock had told DeGeneres about her crush on Reeves a few months earlier. He then appeared on the talk-show and admitted that the crush was mutual.

“She obviously didn’t know I had a crush on her either,” Reeves told DeGeneres.

Bullock shared in an Esquire profile, November 20,21, the story of Reeves’ visit to her home with Champagne & Truffles.

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Bullock and Reeves are at the “Speed” premiere.

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As part of the November 2021 initiative Esquire published a profile of ReevesBullock shared the story of how Reeves, who had visited her home years before with champagne and truffles, allowed Bullock to try them, just days after she had told him she had never tried them.

“He said, ‘I just thought you might want to try Champagne and truffles, to see what it’s like,'”Bullock was recalled to Esquire.

Bullock stated in the same interview that she believed it would end their friendship and prevent them from getting together. “But who knows?”She spoke. “Keanu’s a guy who, I feel like, is friends with every woman he’s ever dated. I don’t think there’s anyone who has something horrible to say about him. So maybe we could have survived.”

Both have spoken out about their desire to work together on numerous occasions.

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Bullock and Reeves have been close friends for many years. They starred in two films together.

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Reeves in 2017 interview Telled PeopleHe explained that he and his wife have been searching for a project together. “Oh my gosh, yeah I’ve been trying,”He said. “I’ve been looking for [film projects] with Sandra — not with her, but for us.”

Bullock told EsquireIn 2021, she plans to work with Reeves once again.

“I would love nothing more than to do a comedy with Keanu before we die,”Bullock stated. “Just laugh with him. He’s funny. We can be 75 — it’ll be even better then, like an old-people ‘Cocoon’ thing. We play two funny old people. A road trip. Just put us in an RV as old people.”

She continued: “It’ll be the bookend of ‘Speed’! We’ll just be driving really slowly. Pissing the world off. There’s our movie.”

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