• The German scientists named a fungus-killing bacteria after Keanu Reeves.
• He has expressed gratitude for the honour.
• Reeves said, “That’s really fantastic.”

The German scientists named a fungus-killing bacteria after Keanu Reeves, and he has expressed gratitude for the honour.

Reeves, 58, who recently attended the London premiere of his newest movie, John Wick: Chapter 4, has said, “That’s really fantastic.”

According to accounts, German scientists found a potent fungus-killing substance that was so lethal that they dubbed it “keanumycins” after the actor.

Over the course of this past weekend’s Reddit Ask Me Anything session, Reeves discussed his feelings on having a deadly molecule named after him.

One fan asked, “Hey Keanu, researchers from Germany found a compound naturally produced by some type of bacteria that is so effective at killing fungi, they named it after you: Keanumycins.”

The Constantine actor said, “They should’ve called it John Wick . . . but that’s pretty cool . . . and surreal for me.”

“But thanks, scientist people! Good luck, and thank you for helping us,” Reeves wrote in response via the Lionsgate Reddit account.

“The lipopeptides kill so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves because he, too, is extremely deadly in his roles,” study co-author Sebastian Götze, a researcher with Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, said in a statement.

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