Ione Skye reveals in her new, tell-all memoir, 'Say Everything'. Photos: TNS
Professionally known as the cool-girl star of Say Anything and other 1980s teen movies, Ione Skye also was famous for her tumultuous trysts and relationships with famous men, from Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis to John Cusack, and for getting swept up in the dark side of Hollywood.
Fortunately, it doesn’t sound like there was anything too dark about Skye’s friendship with Keanu Reeves, as she has revealed in her new, tell-all memoir, Say Everything.
However, she admitted that the friendship began with her “stalking” the famously easy-going A-list actor while they worked together in her first movie, Rivers Edge, a 1986 crime drama.
During the film shoot, she also described how their friendship reached an important understanding after she unsuccessfully tried to seduce him.
“Even the way he’d rejected me was charming,” Skye wrote, according to Entertainment Weekly.
She was 16 and he was 22 when they worked together in her first movie, 'Rivers Edge', a 1986 crime drama. Photo: Handout
Now 54 and a working artist, Skye said she found it “hard not to stare” at Reeves while they worked together on the indie film, about disaffected teens grappling the murder of a girl by one of their friends, according to Entertainment Weekly.
At the time, Skye was 16 and therefore underaged, but she may have grown up quickly as the product of a bohemian, show-business childhood. Her father was Mellow Yellow singer Donovan.
Reeves, meanwhile, was 22. Skye said she developed a “huge crush” on the future star of Speed and the Matrix and John Wick movies.
She said she believed that Reeves felt the same way, so much so that she expected that something intimate might happen between them when she visited him at his studio apartment, as she wrote in her book.
At the time, Skye apparently didn’t think twice about pursuing an older man, probably because 1980s society wasn’t known for being as concerned as it is now about men getting involved with teenage girls.
It’s also possible that her recollection of their encounter may be a bit dramatised, while Reeves didn’t respond to an Entertainment Weekly request for comment.
Years later, Skye wrote, she came to the realisation that she wasn’t in love with Reeves, but had a big crush on him. But they stayed friends, according to People magazine
Reeves isn’t the only famous man whose interactions with Skye get the spotlight in her memoir, according to People.
She also opens up about her fraught relationship with her British father, reveals she did in fact sleep with her Say Anything co-star John Cusack after denying they hooked-up for years, and she writes about being “a serial cheater” during her marriage to Beastie Boys rapper Adam Horovitz, confessing that he once caught her canoodling in a swimming pool with another woman. – The Mercury News/Tribune News Service
