Keanu Reeves is used to defying death onscreen.

His action hero characters dodge bullets, bend the laws of physics, surf killer waves and stop runaway buses in classics including “Point Break” (1991), “Speed” (1994), “The Matrix” (1999) and “John Wick” (2014).

But, while the 59-year-old actor constantly escapes tragedy in movies, offscreen he has been surrounded by it.

“I’m thinking about death all the time,” Reeves told BBC News in an interview earlier this week to promote his new sci-fi novel, “The Book of Elsewhere.”Getty Images

Reeves’ films, such as “The Matrix Reloaded,” have been hugely successful, but his personal life has bee filled with tragedy.

Over the decades, he’s endured the heartbreaking loss of numerous loved ones, and his own ending, he recently revealed, is always on his mind.

“I’m thinking about death all the time,” Reeves told BBC News in an interview earlier this week to promote his new sci-fi novel, “The Book of Elsewhere.”