Keanu Reeves Gives Up Subway Seat, New Yorkers Don't Seem To Notice (VIDEO)

There's sad Keanu, there's happy Keanu and now, gentleman Keanu?

The top post on Reddit this Friday is a video of Keanu Reeves kindly giving up his seat to a woman on the Q train last summer, proving himself to be an upstanding citizen.

It's an interesting case study in celebrity-on-the-subway sociology. How do New Yorkers react to such a famous person joining the daily commute? They don't. For the most part, the straphangers don't seem to pay attention to the Matrix star. Do they not recognize him? Are they just trying to play it cool?

One Redditor has a theory: "They are probably all busy recording him in secret. Just look at how he keeps glancing around. He seems a little uneasy. Either that or he's just watching out for Smith."

Yes, probably.

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Comments

[XLT]

10:36 PM on 12/21/2011

Keanu Reeves Gives Up Subway Seat Because He Doesn't Want To Sit Next To A Black Guy.

There, I fixed it.

[EdCorey1971]

09:16 AM on 12/13/2011

I live in Chicago and I use to catch the Express Bus downtown and take it to the south side of the city. Let me say, that was a long ride and traffic is always backed up for extended periods of time at certain points in the city. To take that route 5 days a week and be expected to yield my seat every time a woman was standing up is UNREASONABLE. Then to assume that some man is a bad guy or that he don't have manners is just absurd. But you know what I did observe quite often? Young women not giving their seats to elderly women even though they were sitting in senior seats. And I always and I mean always saw guys give their seats to elderly women.

Many guys just don't give their seats up like they use to because more women are unappreciative, rude, and overly entitled.

[sparkybrown7877]

01:08 PM on 12/12/2011

Awww, how nice ! But, if he offered me the seat, I would say, no thanks, and sat on his lap, lol

[Avsolute]

09:59 AM on 12/12/2011

He was merely caught being Canadian. Surely he was then beaten up by six cops and deported for subverting American culture and values.

[TedEjr]

12:37 AM on 12/11/2011

Interesting. Nice to see some pleasant stuff making its way through the clutter here.

[Sharon Tong]

10:27 PM on 12/10/2011

You may be surprised. A lot of people in New York don't give up their seats as often anymore, even to the senior citizens. We might glance but don't really pay any attention to it. Keanu was nice though. I carry a large bag usually and i don't always get offered a seat.

[BlindChance]

07:06 PM on 12/10/2011

He needs to come to Chicago and lead by example because I see more women giving up their seats than men in this city.

[lefty81]

06:29 PM on 12/10/2011

Oh snap! he was there right under (or above) their noses! I wish I could catch a celeb on the train. It's such a rarity.................

[Jack Lantern]

05:24 PM on 12/10/2011

I can bet most people didn't believe it was him. No one would be expecting him to be riding the subway, so I can totally see how they'd "think" it was him, but not believe it. Then again, NYers are famous for not giving a hoot about the famous.

Good for them & him. It's how life should be.

[lefty81]

06:30 PM on 12/10/2011

True.

[Heidi Dietrich]

05:10 PM on 12/10/2011

I never say this but Keanu Reeves is handsome.

[LabRATTired]

05:27 PM on 12/10/2011

yeah.. I'm pretty sure I'd let him violate my matrix.. haha..

[lefty81]

06:31 PM on 12/10/2011

He is.

[DJBALL]

04:38 PM on 12/10/2011

this is news ?

[Whogivesafox]

12:31 PM on 12/11/2011

A young dude giving up his seat to a woman on a NYC subway? You'd better believe that's news.

[Pijiu]

02:42 PM on 12/11/2011

BS.....I see it every day

[justwhendoesitend]

04:25 PM on 12/10/2011

Why is this a story? It shows the man has manners and is considerate. His action should not be worthy of a story because this kind of behavior should happen all the time and not be something out of the ordinary.

Nice to see a celebrity assume a very normal average life, at least in this event and choices.

[Heidi Dietrich]

05:08 PM on 12/10/2011

A guy giving up his seat is news. How often does that happen nowadays?

[lefty81]

06:33 PM on 12/10/2011

True. A guy acting like a gentleman. In NY!

[bellaono]

12:58 AM on 12/11/2011

hopefully it will inspire others... no matter who you are, where you come from or what you have, i doesnt cost anything to have manners.

[New Mutiny]

04:05 PM on 12/10/2011

The fact that he catches a subway and doesn't insist on a limo or Hummer with his entourage confirms the solid (and widespread) reputation he has in the industry as a good guy. Standing for that woman is something most men don't do, so further kudos to him.

What's funny is that so many people see this as novel when it's par for the course to anyone who had good parents.

[papapj]

03:05 PM on 12/10/2011

The brother did the right thing..unprompted. His momma trained him well...

[theborg]

02:08 PM on 12/10/2011

I used to look around to keep from falling asleep. Something about the sound of a train that is very soothing.