Keanu Reeves is not a big advocate of the saying 'life begins at 40'.
Instead The Matrix star has revealed that starting his fifth decade last year plunged him into a period of depression.
According to Female First, the Hollywood actor felt enormously gloomy when he started to brood about how many years he had left on the planet.
"It was a nightmare," he admits. "It reminded me of adolescence and it felt like an internal transformation with physical aspect, like when your hormones run wild.
"But this time with a conscious shift, an awareness of your own mortality."
The Canadian-born actor hit 40 on September 2nd 2004.


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