In 1991, Reeves developed an interest in a music career; he formed the alternative rock band Dogstar, consisting of members Robert Mailhouse, Gregg Miller and Bret Domrose. Reeves played the bass guitar. A year later, he played Jonathan Harker in Francis Ford Coppola’s Gothic horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula, based on Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, starring alongside Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins. The film was critically and commercially successful: it grossed $215.8 million worldwide.[56] For his role, Reeves was required to speak with an English accent, which drew some ridicule; “Overly posh and entirely ridiculous, Reeves’s performance is as painful as it is hilarious”, wrote Limara Salt of Virgin Media.[57] In a retrospective interview in 2015, director Coppola said, “[Reeves] tried so hard […] He wanted to do it perfectly and in trying to do it perfectly it came off as stilted”.[58] Bram Stoker’s Dracula was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning three in Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing and Best Makeup.[59] The film also received four nominations at the British Academy Film Awards.[60]
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