Ione Skye had a steamy bathe with Keanu Reeves earlier than he stopped it: ‘Even the way in which he’d rejected me was charming’

Ione Skye discovered Keanu Reeves "onerous to not stare at" once they have been making the 1986 film River's Edge, she writes in her new e book, Say All the pieces: A Memoir. The actress described having a "large crush" on the set of her first movie, and she or he started "stalking" him in his trailer.

As soon as, she visited him at his studio condominium as a result of she sensed he felt the identical method, however he gave her a transparent no, she wrote. When she tried to kiss him, he informed her he was going to bathe, and Skye adopted him.

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"Keanu turned on the water and stood together with his again to me, hand within the stream, staring up on the showerhead. I maneuvered between him and the open bathe curtain, water spraying my again," she wrote. "His stunning neck was proper there, so shut I may lick it, so I did. I zeroed in on his stunning throat, sucking and making out with it. He made a low, growly noise and I felt my abdomen flip properly. 'Oh,' I heard myself say. The room was thick with steam, my moist T-shirt sticking to me, desirous to be peeled off."

When she reached for his buckle, she wrote, he grabbed her wrist to cease her and mentioned he didn't assume he wished to.

"I broke out with a fast, shocked chortle. 'Sorry!'" she wrote. "'No, don't be,' mentioned Keanu, releasing my wrist. We have been nonetheless caught collectively, respiratory onerous. I pressed my face, purple from the kiss and now embarrassment, into his chest."

Reeves, who was six years older, handled her kindly.

"'Let me, ah, get you a dry shirt,'" he mentioned to her.

"Rattling," Skye thought. "Even the way in which he'd rejected me was charming."

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Skye mentioned issues have been "solely somewhat awkward on set the subsequent day. With out saying something, Keanu let me know he didn't blame me for attempting."

The encounter exterior the bathe adopted a number of others that made her coronary heart race.

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In a single, they have been working collectively on a intercourse scene, which bought off to an ungainly begin. He informed her he had forgotten and had eaten just a few bites of uncooked onion beforehand.

"Cautious to not let my hair fall over my face, I straddled Keanu and kissed him for actual, shifting round, elements to elements, lacking generally and grinding on his leg or abdomen," Skye wrote. Afterward, they "pulled aside, somewhat bashful, somewhat breathless. 'You good?' mentioned Keanu, and I sensed by the husky edge to his voice that it wasn't simply me who wished extra. Tracing my lips to the facet of his face, I whispered, 'Can I come to your home after wrap?'"

That go to ended abruptly, too, when Reeves out of the blue stopped kissing her and supplied to drive her residence.

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By the point she was filming her signature film, Say Something, just a few years later, she had come to a realization: "I'd thought I cherished Keanu, however that was only a crush, looking back."

EW has reached out to Reeves' rep for remark.

Say All the pieces: A Memoir is in bookstores now.

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