“Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?” Matthew Perry reportedly writes in his forthcoming memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, which comes out Nov.
1. In the book, which is excerpted today in the New York Post, the Friends actor repeatedly expresses such sentiments about Reeves, who counted Phoenix among his closest friends.
Deadline has reached out to Perry’s representative and will add any comment received. Perry himself became friends with Phoenix after they made A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon in 1988.
Five years later, Phoenix died in front of the Viper Room from an overdose of cocaine and heroin. “I heard the screaming from my apartment; went back to bed; woke up to the news,” Perry says of the moment.
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