It's a cause that's close to his heart.
movie to cancer research, which included the $10 million he was paid upfront and the $35 million he earned after the film's premiere. But what exactly does that amount to? A staggering $31.5 million that comes with a heartwarming backstory.According to the publication, the donation was made when his younger sister, Kim, was battling leukemia. A fight that began in 1991 and lasted eight years, Kim eventually went into remission.
Even so, Reeves has kept donating and even secretly started his very own cancer nonprofit, which he ran himself, per a supposed quote from his 2009 interview with"I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research,” he said at the time. “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.
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