# Keanu Reeves' TWO bellybuttons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185 "2019-06-07T21:32:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/1 "2019-06-07T21:32:26Z")
Look at this scene where Agent Smith “bugs” Neo. There certainly appears to be a serious “dimple” to the lower-left of the actual navel. Wrong place for an appendectomy scar. Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/2 "2019-06-07T21:43:43Z")
The image in question is around 4:24. Immediately before that, around 4:18, there is no such dimple in the view from the other side. I therefore conclude it’s an artifact of the CGI. Maybe they had some piece of equipment or model pushing into his stomach, and they digitally removed the equipment but not the dimple. Or maybe this was many takes in, and in one of the earlier takes, the bug burrowed a hole in the wrong place rather than going through his belly button. Whoops! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/3 "2019-06-08T03:02:12Z")
One of my aunts has a second belly-button, from an accident with a fishhook. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/4 "2019-06-08T04:39:42Z")
On a related note: [gene roddenberry - Why does Lyra-a have two belly buttons? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22041/why-does-lyra-a-have-two-belly-buttons) ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/5 "2019-06-08T14:28:21Z")
I have a scar just like that, from having a feeding tube inserted during radiation treatment. Perhaps Keanu had to have a tube for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/6 "2019-06-08T15:11:27Z")
It looks too low to be a feeding tube scar, but it might be from a surgical drain. From [an Esquire interview](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a13033/keanu-reeves-john-wick-2-interview/), in relation to his habit of riding motorcycles: "As a hobby it is not without its risks. In 1988, he took a hairpin bend too fast and lay on the pavement for half an hour thinking he was going to die. The accident left a thick scar up his abdomen and necessitated the removal of his spleen. Since then there have been other surgeries, fake teeth, veneers. Some broken ribs. " If anything, they probably CGI’d scars out rather than in, and were inconsistent. ETA: [https://www.keanu-reeves.net/post/162864242206/abdominal-scar-keanu-reeves-first-big-spill-came](https://www.keanu-reeves.net/post/162864242206/abdominal-scar-keanu-reeves-first-big-spill-came) ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/7 "2019-06-08T16:09:00Z")
It wasn’t Keanu: > [@](#): > > In the scene where the bug enters Keanu’s belly button, a model torso, very specific to Keanu was created. In making the film, there was a mix of prosthetic devices, “pure animation” and digital effects (Neo’s mouth sealing). When the bug is pulled out of its case, it’s real–after that moment, the bug is digital. A model maker spent twelve weeks making the bug extractor. > **[Mindhole Blowers: 20 Facts About The Matrix That Might Make You Say, "Whoa"](https://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/mindhole-blowers-20-facts-about-the-matrix-that-might-make-you-say-whoa.php)** > > First off, this week's entry was supposed to be Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but since Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. did nothing but verbally masturbate each other, with maybe only two pauses to let poor Shane Black get in... He doesn’t appear to possess such a dimple. [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/349591989797670576](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/349591989797670576) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/8 "2019-06-08T18:06:27Z")
Google “john stamos bellybutton” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/9 "2019-06-08T21:34:30Z")
But when do we discuss Frodo’s nipple? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/10 "2019-06-08T22:01:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Google “john stamos bellybutton” Just in case I decide to run for public office… no. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/11 "2019-06-08T22:39:47Z")
He has something like a dozen umbilici (there’s a word you don’t use often) later in the movie. Nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keanu-reeves-two-bellybuttons/835185/12 "2019-06-08T22:52:10Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > He doesn’t appear to possess such a dimple. > [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/349591989797670576](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/349591989797670576) Here’s a [better view](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s4B3WxN56es/VNOZRQPEb0I/AAAAAAACmDU/lbYhjo2jkmU/s1600/keanu%2Breeves%2Bshirtless.png).