--- title: Keanu Reeves Always Be My Maybe GIF Is the Best Medicine description: The actor's slow motion entrance in Always Be My Maybe was just the beginning canonical: https://time.com/5599667/keanu-reeves-slow-walking-meme/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-06-03T15:14:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:06.214Z og:title: Keanu Reeves Walking in Slow-Motion to Music Is What the Doctor Ordered og:description: The actor's slow motion entrance in Always Be My Maybe was just the beginning og:url: https://time.com/5599667/keanu-reeves-slow-walking-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67112da322fd1d81/69894ab37cdbac6164d5f9a2/keanureevesalwaysbemymaybeslowwalkmeme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Netflix's "Always Be My Maybe" - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Keanu Reeves Walking in Slow-Motion to Music Is What the Doctor Ordered twitter:description: The actor's slow motion entrance in Always Be My Maybe was just the beginning twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67112da322fd1d81/69894ab37cdbac6164d5f9a2/keanureevesalwaysbemymaybeslowwalkmeme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Keanu Reeves Slow-Walking Into Your Life Meme Is Just What the Doctor Ordered > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Winter&Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 3, 2019 3:14 PM UTC If you watched Ali Wong and Randall Park’s Netflix film, [_Always Be My Maybe_](http://time.com/5597838/review-always-be-my-maybe/) you probably noted a memorable cameo by [Keanu Reeves](http://time.com/5592623/keanu-reeves-ice-cream/). In the romantic comedy, Reeves plays a love interest for Wong’s character and he makes a hilariously dramatic, slow-motion entrance set to the song “Sail” by Awolnation. It’s hard not to laugh and even harder to forget. Now, there’s a Twitter feed dedicated to making the moment last. As first spotlit by [ Pedestrian.TV](https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/keanu-reeves-walking-to-music-twitter/), a genius has decided to use their Twitter account for good, creating an entire Twitter feed dedicated to nothing but Reeves slow-motion walk, set to different songs. It’s hard to say whether this is just a Reeves fan account or was designed to prove the point that Reeves’ slow motion entrance regardless of what music it is set to—and it always, _always_ works whether he’s strolling in to Hilary Duff’s “So Yesterday,” Shakira’s “Whenever Wherever”, Bryan Adams’ “Heaven”, Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know the Better”, or even The Beach Boys “Kokomo”. As can be seen in the examples below, through some strange alchemy of Reeves’ charisma and the slow motion walking, the scene works every single time. > [](https://twitter.com/keanuwtm/status/1135370372461858818) > [](https://twitter.com/keanuwtm/status/1134571767505260545) > [](https://twitter.com/keanuwtm/status/1134570638381899776) > [](https://twitter.com/keanuwtm/status/1134569393248186368) > [](https://twitter.com/keanuwtm/status/1134565074478292997) > [](https://twitter.com/keanuwtm/status/1134557392228757505) Of course, Keanu’s far from the first. Perhaps most notable of all, back in 2015, after Drake released the [video](http://time.com/4079241/drake-hotline-bling-video/) for his song, “Hotline Bling,” people realized that Drake’s dancing on a candy-colored background worked with practically any beat. Soon enough [the internet was filled](http://time.com/4079654/drake-hotline-bling-dancing-memes/) with people proving the point, setting Drake’s dancing to everything from the _Rugrats_ theme song to Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown rhythm or a Bob Marley tune and showing that that [Drake’s moves](http://time.com/4148212/hotline-bling-drake-supercut/) were always on beat. 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