She was turned down by Keanu Reeves. 80s teen actress Ione Skye recalls a steamy encounter
Professionally known as the cool-girl star of Say Anything and other 1980s teen films, Ione Skye was also famous for her tumultuous trysts and relationships with famous men, from Red Hot Chili Peppers front man Anthony Kiedis to actor John Cusack, and for getting swept up in the dark side of Hollywood.
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Fortunately, it does not 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 on her first movie, River's 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.
Keanu Reeves and Ione Skye in a still from River's Edge.
'Even the way he'd rejected me was charming,' Skye wrote, according to entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly.
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