Reeves used to drive to New York by car 8 hours every day to attend acting classes in the famous HB Studio that housed alumni like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Matthew Broderick.

Reeves got some attention after starring in the movie Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) where he played a simple teen. It was quite difficult to shake his young persona formed by the array of teenage movies he took part in but he managed to do it eventually.