SUBMITTED BY Timbo

November 5, 2003 — Now that the Matrix franchise has more or less come to an end, fans are wondering what Keanu Reeves will be doing for an encore.

"I love doing supporting roles, different genres, different scales of moviemaking," Reeves said during an interview at a soundstage at Warner Bros., the studio behind "The Matrix" franchise. "It's important, it's a wish of mine to be able to do that."

In December, Reeves plays second fiddle to Jack Nicholson in the romantic comedy "Something's Gotta Give," as an emergency-room doctor wooing an older woman (Diane Keaton). Already completed is a role as an orthodontist in the low-budget comedy "Thumbsucker," and Reeves now is shooting the occult comic-book adaptation "Constantine."

Reeves' approach -- follow an action flick with a moody independent feature, move from a star turn to a fringe part in an ensemble film -- has fueled Keanu-bashing among critics. Despite serious turns in "Dangerous Liaisons" and "My Own Private Idaho" early in his career, Reeves was pigeonholed by "Bill & Ted" as a screen simpleton and castigated when he strayed from lunkhead parts.

Some of his performances have been called stiff and taciturn. Critics have scorned his attempts at villainous roles in such films as Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare comedy "Much Ado About Nothing."

For all Reeves' aloof exterior, the criticism stings.

"Yeah, I mean bad reviews suck, man," Reeves says. "It's terrible. It's a drag. But it's still just a review. It sucks to have a bad review, but it's not like after I get a bad review, I run outside and start drinking and have a kind of catastrophic depression."

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