In a converted aircraft hangar in Santa Monica, Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer are in front of assembled journalists and influencers. Part of Apple TV’s lavish 2026 showcase, they’re in town to promote Outcome, a scabrous new comedy co-written, co-produced and directed by Jonah Hill. On stage, the trio pretend that Hill – the Oscar-nominated star of The Wolf of Wall Street – has scripted their words, announcing he’s “Meryl Streep versatile” and has “the charisma of Timothée Chalamet”.
Reeves plays Reef Hawk, an Oscar-winning Hollywood megastar, recovering drug addict and all-round douchebag, who ducked out of the business for five years to get clean from heroin – only to return just as a blackmailer threatens to leak a career-crushing video. “I just was like, poor Reef, poor guy,” says Reeves, dressed today in limo-black. “He’s not really a bad guy. But he’s kind of an asshole. F***ed up a lot.”
Like his character, Reeves is one of the biggest stars on the planet, thanks to action films like Speed, The Matrix and John Wick. But mellow-voiced and ultra laid-back, Reeves does feel far removed from the anxious, addiction-grappling Reef. “I could understand some of the parameters,” he admits, “but I didn’t really have the experience of that character. I could draw from my life, but it wasn’t biographical.”
View Green Video on the source websiteDespite being a comedy, Outcome shows how lonely it can be at the top. As Reef reunites with people from his past amid his search for the blackmailer, the film is really asking: how can facing who we were, shape who we are today? “I guess it depends on what you’re looking at and what you can see and can’t see, right?” says Reeves.
The people Reef has in his court are best friends Kyle (Diaz) and Xander (Bomer), and Ira (Hill) an unctuous, fast-talking crisis lawyer who firefights high-profile scandals (“Tom Hanks body-slammed his housekeeper,” he yells at one point).
“You just do what you love and prioritise,” she says, fizzing with energy. “A friend of mine said many years ago, you only have 100 per cent in life to give, and you have to figure out how you’re going to divide up that 100 per cent and what percentage you’re going to put in each bucket of your life. And I think at best, you try to split it as evenly as possible. But there’s always a priority. And for me, it’s my family. So even when I’m doing all these other things, my family is first and foremost.”
Outcome is a sharp reminder of the perils of success. “For me, it was about understanding proximity to fame and public notoriety,” says Bomer, 48 – a Golden Globe winner for his role in Ryan Murphy’s TV drama The Normal Heart, who has yet to achieve the levels of fame that Diaz or Reeves has. “For better or worse, I had a lot of friends who achieved a certain level of success long before I did. So I understood what it was like to watch a friend go through that, and all the trials and errors that we all make when that happens. And so, I think I tried to draw from that.”
Just as Reef has support from his oldest friends, keeping in contact with those you met before you were famous is crucial. “Childhood friends... I’m still close with a lot of them,” nods Bomer, who grew up in Missouri (and is a distant cousin of Justin Timberlake). The San Diego-born Diaz is another who makes it a point to keep in touch. “I don’t talk to my friends all the time, but we connect when we can,” she says. “[I’ll often say], ‘I’m sorry I didn’t text you for two weeks. I meant to write you back!’”
Since becoming a mother – to daughter Raddix, 6, and son, Cardinal, 2 – Diaz has been struck by this. “As a parent, you go, ‘Oh, I have to wait until they’re 40 for them to see I’m a human being!’”
Whatever the outcome – Hollywood star or not – success can’t be a person’s sole pursuit. “It’s about growth, it’s about self-awareness,” says Diaz. “It’s about going, ‘Who am I and what do I want out of life? What do I have to do? What do I have to give up?’”
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