The Matrix star said he asked for John Hancocks from the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed and George Carlin.

IfKeanu Reevesis a celebrity and can still fanboy over industry colleagues, so can we.

“It was for a friend, and he was cool about it.

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Keanu Reeves on CBS' ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’.Scott Kowalchyk/CBS

Reeves said he later learned that what he thought was a personal note from Carlin wasn’t so personal.

“I always thought he just wrote that for me,” theMatrixstar said.

“And then I met someone else who said that he wrote the same thing to them!

BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, from left: George Carlin, Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, 1989, © Ori

Keanu Reeves, Alex Winters, and George Carlin in ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures’.Everett Collection

Anyway, beautiful.”

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