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Keanu Reeves and Dolly Parton Wore the Same Iconic Playboy Outfit
Come to find out, his mother was a costume designer.
Everyone loves Keanu Reeves. If you don’t love Keanu Reeves at this point, you’re either somehow completely missing out on every amazing new anecdote that comes out about him year after year, or it’s time to reconsider your life choices and jump on the Keanu train.
As the nicest guy in Hollywood continues doing press for the upcoming long-awaited fourth installment of The Matrix, The Matrix Resurrections, the latest story to come out of it has everyone’s head spinning in the best kind of way.
Answering fan questions on Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett-Smith recently, Keanu copped to an interesting factoid about one of his Halloween costumes growing up.
“My mother was a costume designer and she made some costumes for Dolly Parton, and she once did the cover of Playboy,” he said, referencing a well-known image of Dolly (one that she actually recreated for her husband earlier this year).
\u201c\ud83d\udc96 Dolly Parton // Playboy October 1978\ud83d\udc96\u201d— \u300e Jiji \u300fin Con Recovery Mode: Standby. (@\u300e Jiji \u300fin Con Recovery Mode: Standby.) 1598316339
“And I guess she didn’t take that home,” he continued. “And so we had it, and it was Halloween. So I put on the ears and the bustier. I wore sneakers with fishnet stockings and the bow tie. I had some pretty long hair.
“I was Dolly Parton’s Playboy bunny.”
Unfortunately, Keanu didn’t share any photos from that amazing Halloween, so we’re left to fill in the blanks with our imaginations. But people were still pretty jazzed by the overlap in America’s sweethearts.
\u201c@csweet @consequence @DollyParton That dress is probably enchanted with +10 to charisma or some shit.\u201d— CONSEQUENCE (@CONSEQUENCE) 1639597105
\u201c@sweatinthruahat @consequence @DollyParton plus a secret ingredient known as \u201cchemical x\u201d\u201d— CONSEQUENCE (@CONSEQUENCE) 1639597105
\u201c@DiscussingFilm @BlueBoi1996 Keanu Reeves walking down the street in Dolly Parton\u2019s Playboy outfit\u201d— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) 1639709166
\u201cThis is exactly the level of greatness I expect from a headline with both Keanu and Dolly in it\u201d— Ren\ud83d\udc9c\u2077 (They/Them) (@Ren\ud83d\udc9c\u2077 (They/Them)) 1639724022
If we get stories like this every time a Keanu-led franchise is revived, well, the only logical course of action is to finally bring back Constantine. He can start the press tour just as soon as this one is finished up.
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Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
