John Wick: Chapter 4 has its star Keanu Reeves doing tons of superior motion stunts, together with studying the best way to do a reverse 180 and drift whereas reloading a prop gun and capturing it out the door in a single main scene in Paris, France. That’ on high of all of the martial arts preventing as properly! However, do you know whereas the actor is left-handed, John Wick is definitely right-handed? That’s proper, Reeves is pulling off a whole lot of tough stunts because the John Wick character along with his non-dominant hand!
It’s a reasonably legendary undeniable fact that director Chad Stahelski shared whereas on the ReelBlend Podcast’s newest unique interview. In his phrases:
, truly, Keanu’s a lefty. We’re each lefties. We shoot lefty, however we shoot righty as properly. And Keanu, the entire film, is doing it righty. So in case you return and watch, I dare you to go strive… As a result of he’s ambidextrous within the film.
When talking to ReelBlend hosts, Kevin McCarthy and Jake Hamilton, concerning the newest John Wick film, the stuntman-turned-director additionally shared why they made the choice for Reeves’ motion character to be right-handed regardless of his personal most popular hand. As Stahelski continued:
We thought it’d be cool when he switched to the left hand. So in case you watch the nunchuck combat, you’ll see him. Once more, you do the close-up of the change, we strive not to do this. However like, in the course of the combat, you’ll see him change palms, he’s utterly ambidextrous within the film.
As soon as once more, Keanu Reeves proves he’s a Hollywood dwelling legend. To high issues off, in an enormous spoiler scene in John Wick 3 the character sustained an harm on his left hand resulting in a whole lot of CGI work needing to be accomplished on his dominant hand. Throughout Stahelski’s interview on ReelBlend he revealed that making the story resolution was a “big debate” with Lionsgate, however they didn’t suppose they’d be doing a fourth film.
With a purpose to maintain the continuity of John Wick now not having his ring finger, 600 VFX pictures had been added to John Wick: Chapter 4. When requested about whether or not he regrets the choice within the third film, the director shared he nonetheless thinks it’s a “nice selection,” and really awarded a number of the VFX guys statues of palms with out ring fingers to commemorate the entire thing. Take a look at the complete ReelBlend podcast episode that includes the interview on YouTube beneath:
John Wick: Chapter 4 is out in theaters this weekend after being welcomed by critics to nice opinions together with CinemaBlend’s personal John Wick 4 overview, the place Eric Eisenberg awarded the film 4.5 out of 5 stars and says it “earns each second of its epic runtime,” which is 11 minutes shy of three hours following its first minimize being practically 4 hours.
After all now whereas we’re watching John Wick: Chapter 4, we’ll be Keanu Reeves’ palms much more to take a look at when he’s utilizing his left and proper palms alongside along with his magical lacking finger the VFX workforce labored arduous on sustaining continuity for. What a real motion star!
