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Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant are so sweet together. They are couple goals for me for sure. They’ve been together since around 2017 and Alexandra is a well-known artist in LA. She was an honoree at the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards on Friday and walked the red carpet there without Keanu, who was performing with his band Dogstar. But she talked to People magazine while walking the red carpet, and had so many loving things to say about Keanu. They inspire each other as artists and help each other solve creative problems. She says her art has gotten “happier” since she met Keanu and that he is loving being reunited with his band.

She and Keanu help each other grow as artists:  “In a moment of frustration in my life, I once said, ‘Sometimes I feel like a Maserati stuck in traffic,’ that I have this big engine, but, for a variety of reasons, that I couldn’t ever go,” she tells PEOPLE. “And I know a lot of people feel frustrated in their lives, that they’re not able to run their engine.”

She adds: “I think every creative person feels that way.”

“What I love about Keanu and our exchange is that we’re pushing each other to build new roads,” she says. “Seeing the other person’s problem-solving is inspiring, like, ‘Oh, well, okay, this one, that’s a cul-de-sac. How do I try this other thing?’ ”

“He’s such an inspiration to me,” she continues. “He’s so creative, he’s so kind. He works so hard.”

Her art has gotten happier since she started dating Keanu: “I had a studio visit a few years ago, and this very kind, very high-level person said, ‘I can see that your work has gotten happier,’ ” she remembers. “That’s real. We’re all human beings. We’re animals. We’re expressing from where we are and certainly feeling happier. I think the work is happier.”

The strikes have given Keanu more time to be out on the road: “I’m glad they’re able to do it,” she says, adding that she thinks it’s “really great that Keanu has the ability to pivot to being a musician” amid the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “They had been playing music and rehearsing and they had already recorded most of the album before the strike,” she adds. “What it opened up was more time to go on the road.”

[From Yahoo]

At the risk of being corny as hell, this is the kind of love I really hope I find some day. You can sense Alexandra’s great respect for Keanu and how in sync they are creatively, they have such a special bond. Keanu’s early life was hard and he has experienced terrible losses. I’m so happy for him that he has found Alexandra. I related to what she said about not being able to “run your engine” as a creative person. I’ve experienced a lot of shame around creativity. Going through college as an English major who wanted to be a writer, I started internalizing a lot of messaging about the humanities being useless. I come from a very STEM oriented family. I felt like I had failed my family by not getting a science or engineering degree, and I heard a lot of jokes from the business majors about how I was majoring in waitressing or dying young. (When I worked as a barista on campus, I served the people who made those jokes decaf.) In a weird way, the pandemic and the recent Hollywood strikes were encouraging for me as a creative person. People relied on art–music, books, movies, TV–to get through the darkest days of the pandemic. And the strikes only reinforced how crucial creative work is to the business of Hollywood.

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