Keanu and Sandra, Together Again

Posted on June 16, 2006

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock's new movie, The Lake House, opens today in wide release. The time-travel romance has an interesting premise and the two stars still have the same excellent chemistry they had in Speed. They talked to Sci-Fi Channel about the film's conceit of sending letters to each other through time.

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, who reunite as the stars of the upcoming time-travel romance The Lake House, told reporters that they knew the movie might seem dated because their characters communicate via handwritten letters-but both actors said that they preferred that personal form of communication. "I like writing letters," Bullock said in a news conference to promote the film. "We've done that with each other, and plus, he refuses to use a computer, so you can't e-mail him," she added, referring to her onetime Speed co-star.
Despite the high-tech gizmos he's used in science fiction films such as the Matrix movies, Reeves said that he's not computer savvy and prefers typing out letters on a typewriter. "No I don't have a computer," he said. "My friends have computers, and so I kind of ... ask if they can do something for me," Reeves said.

All right, that's it. Keanu's publicist needs to have a chat with him -- pronto. It's really off-putting to say you don't even own a computer these days. Way to really date yourself and turn off those young fans, dude. The other big star to rail against computers and the Internet? Well, that would be Mr. Indiana Jones himeself, Harrison Ford. He told Jon Stewart what a computer illiterate he is.

Although, now that we think about it, Orlando Bloom is another "I don't even know how to turn on a computer" type and he is young and on very much on the A-List. Oh, no, is this the new In Thing? To be hot and a Luddite, too?

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