Rosie O’Donnell is revealing why Keanu Reeves was “one of many worst” visitors she had on her eponymous discuss present.
O’Donnell hosted over 1,000 episodes of The Rosie O’Donnell Present between 1996 and 2002 and interviewed a who’s who of celebrities, together with Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Britney Spears.
Throughout a Monday, October 13, look on Australian discuss present Sam Pang Tonight, the comic shared recollections of a few of her visitors, together with the Matrix star.
Whereas actress and singer Barbra Streisand was “most likely” O’Donnell’s “favourite” visitor, she stated, “One of many worst, who, I really like the man, however he’s not good on discuss reveals: Keanu Reeves.”
“He’s so candy, he appears to be like attractive, I really like all his films, however he wouldn’t reply a query,” O’Donnell, 63, continued. “I’d say, ‘So, Keanu, how’s it going? How are you feeling?’ [He’d respond] ‘Good.’ We have been stay. We couldn’t retape. I lastly stated after three minutes, ‘You recognize, Keanu, it’s a discuss present. It’s a must to discuss.’”
“However he did come again, and he bought the cling of it,” O’Donnell added, reiterating that Reeves, 61, is “a stunning man and a good-hearted man, so I don’t wanna throw him beneath the bus.”
O’Donnell shared that the “finest visitor to have on” was Solely Murders within the Constructing star Martin Brief.
“Since you come out and say, ‘The way you doing, Marty?’ and it’s over for you,” she revealed. “He stands up and he goes, ‘I’m right here!’ He was the funniest and the nicest man, so I might say Marty Brief was undoubtedly top-of-the-line.”
O’Donnell additionally addressed her notorious 1999 interview with actor Tom Selleck, whom she clashed with over gun legal guidelines within the wake of the Columbine bloodbath.
“It was very awkward. I had by no means been unkind or controversial, however Columbine had simply occurred,” the previous discuss present host stated. “It was 1999. He had an advert within the magazines that stated, ‘I’m the NRA. Taking pictures teaches kids good values.’ And I used to be so torn up about Columbine that I simply didn’t quit. After which, like an harmless fool, I walked off-stage and stated to my employees, ‘Do you assume that’ll get any press?’”
O’Donnell’s interview with Selleck, 80, made headlines on the time. In 2007, after O’Donnell started clashing with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View, Selleck informed Entry Hollywood, “I nonetheless like Rosie. I feel she must take a deep breath and cease pondering all people who disagrees together with her is evil.”
The previous View cohost additionally mirrored on her conflict with Selleck in a 2021 interview with Folks.
O’Donnell stated, “I feel it’s simply the primary time that I ever challenged a celeb. Each different one I used to be good to. In the event that they stated, ‘Please, let’s not speak about my divorce or my current drug habit, drug rehab,’ I might do what they requested.”
“I used to be not a ‘get you’ sort of interview, I had no want to make anybody really feel uncomfortable,” she added. “Like Johnny Carson taught us, if there was egg on anybody’s face, it’s alleged to be on the host, not the visitor. So I feel nobody was anticipating that I might problem somebody in the best way that I did.”
