00:00Hi, everybody. Hi, hi. I'm working hard tonight. Gonna be okay? All right. First of the
00:06Stations of the Cross, guys. Big, big month coming, coming your way. Take your TheraFlu.
00:11Don't, don't get what I have. I had two, half my household had the other flu, you know,
00:18that comes out both ways. I got lucky. I just have a horrible cold. All right. I am, I'm
00:24going to take four questions. Mr. Hanks, right here, Anastasios. Number one. Anastasios
00:32from The Greek Reporter. Congratulations. Thank you very much. And thank you very much
00:36for all the performances you have offered over the years. Thank you. I have questions about
00:38my honorary Greek status. Number one, do I have to serve in the Army? I want to ask you, how
00:43do you feel, a few years ago I asked you how you feel being Greek married to your wife, but
00:47how do you feel being a citizen? Well, as long as I don't have to serve in the Army, I'm
00:51no
00:51good anyway. I don't think I got bad knees and I'm an old man. Do I have to pay taxes
00:56or can I just pay cash and avoid all that stuff? I don't know about that. I'm just curious.
01:01It's a great honor. I've been Hellenic now for the better part of 32 years. I want to
01:07ask you how Greece has affected you as an actor and if you have actually taken inspiration from
01:13Greece. Greece is a haven. My family goes to Greece. I've been around the world. I've been
01:21thinking about it. The land, the sky, the water, it's good for the soul. It's a healing place,
01:26particularly if you get into that fabulous, fabulous Greek schedule of sleeping until noon,
01:33staying up till three o'clock in the morning and arguing in a taverna till 3 a.m. It's just
01:39the best
01:39life one can have. Thank you. Thank you. Question number two. Congratulations. Just a short question.
01:46Wait a minute. We just heard a groan from the hall. What happened? Do we know? Yes, I'm sorry.
01:51So you played in so many movies. Which one of them is your favorite?
01:55Oh, that's impossible to say. All of them were magical. You have to separate out the experience
02:04of making the movie and the way it is taken in by the marketplace. They do not correlate. I've made
02:11movies that were uncomfortable and just fun enough and they've done well. I've made movies that I've
02:16loved every second of it and they come out and the audience seems to be perhaps confused by them.
02:23I will say this though, however, I have never, ever regretted being part of an ensemble or the
02:29adventure that a movie comes along. I must say one of the great things is you can always,
02:34you can always say, well, you know, they didn't get in the United States, but man, are we crushing
02:41it in Eastern Europe. They love our movie in Eastern Europe. It's playing great. So that's a good,
02:46that's a good thing to know. Question number three.
02:52Yes. Who do you want to play next?
02:56Who do I want to play next or who are they? See, this is an interesting thing. I would like
03:01to play you
03:02next. But unless someone comes to me with that great thing, unless you have a screenplay that
03:08is based on you and your life, I don't know. I am, the current plan, and because I'm sick,
03:14I'm about to leave to go to Australia. Good thoughts to Australia for what's going on down there,
03:23to work with Baz Luhrmann. And I will be playing, if all goes according to plan, Colonel Tom Parker
03:29to Austin Butler's Elvis Presley. And hopefully, I will then finally have an answer to all your
03:36stupid questions about why will I never play a bad guy? I think, I think I'm about to do that.
03:43So,
03:44that's, that's who I'm playing next. And we have time for one more question.
03:48Last one. Last question.
03:50Right in the front, Chris with the GMA Philippines. My question to you is you, Keanu Reeves. There's a
03:54handful of Hollywood actors and actresses that everybody seems to love. How have you weaved through,
03:59all these years as a career, in a career in Hollywood, not gotten many people pissed off at
04:04you? And no scandals, all that. Well, you know, I, I don't know. It's not a, it's not a, it's
04:11not a,
04:11it's not an agenda. There's no strategy to it. I will just say this, and I, I have worked briefly
04:16with
04:16Keanu. He has a wonderful answer to those questions. Why, what is it like being, how is it to be
04:22so
04:22well-regarded, well-liked? And he always says, well, it's preferable to the alternative, which is true.
04:27I'd rather be, you know, appreciated than loathed. That's just me. But I will say that years and years,
04:36when I, when I realized that being an actor was a thing, a job, a craft, a pursuit you could
04:44have,
04:44I didn't think there was be anything that could possibly be more fun than that. I'm not in this
04:50for power, although I have some. I'm not in this for money, although man, am I rich.
04:58I can go to Greece anytime I want to. That's, that's how, that's how comfortable I am. But there
05:04is no substitute for that great, incredible. I will tell you this, when, when I was in high
05:09school and we would audition for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or Tennessee Williams' Night of the
05:16Juana, we would, auditions would be done on, on Friday and the cast list would be put up on Monday.
05:23And I could not sleep for that entire week and I still feel that way the weekend before we start
05:28shooting something. It's, it's just, it's just the greatest and most exciting and challenging job
05:33there is. Outside of, of course, trying to keep up this horrible facade of being a delightful man
05:40in front of all you correspondents, so savage, so cynical. He, no, I'm joking. It's all, this is easy.
05:47All we do is talk about movies so it all works out fine. Thanks for a lovely night, everybody.
05:51Thank you very much.
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