Reeves admitted to feeling irritated by the request.
“I remember driving across the country and I recall them telling me… I was cruising up and down along the Santa Monica beach thinking, ‘What the heck?'” he recounted.
At one point, he experimented with using the initials of his first and middle names, considering “Keanu Charles.”
“I thought, ‘Alright, what should my name be?’ and I thought, ‘Templeton?’ So, eventually, I settled on my first and middle initials, becoming K.C. Reeves. Oh, my goodness,” he explained.
However, Reeves ultimately decided against changing his name, expressing that he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
“But then I went to auditions, and they’d call out ‘K.C.?’ and I wouldn’t even respond. Eventually, I went back to my agents and said, ‘I can’t change my name,'” he recounted.
Reeves recalled a line from a character he portrayed in a play during his youth, which resonated with him and solidified his decision not to change his name.
“In one of the first plays I ever did, I played John Procter, and one of the lines goes, ‘Because it is my name, because I can have no other,’ and that line just kept echoing in my mind,” he reflected.
During a previous interview on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” he shared his experience contemplating a name change.
“I went to the ocean, because this was a big deal for me, right? It’s my name. It’s my name!” he recalled.
When he suggested going by Templeton Page-Taylor to his managers, they weren’t impressed
