Keanu Reeves Wick in John Wick
John Wick directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch detail how the film's financiers pushed back on one detail regarding Keanu Reeves' character. Directed by Stahelski and Leitch, though the latter was uncredited, the 2014 action film follows the relatively simple story of a legendary assassin who comes out of retirement to seek revenge against the men who killed his puppy, which was a final gift from his late wife.
✕ Remove Ads Stahelski: Absolutely. We were trying to do a modern-day Greek mythology fantasy movie. That's not mainstream. So we wanted to do something cool with Keanu. But the money people, they wanted to see Keanu fucking Reeves."Point Break" Keanu,"Speed" Keanu. And I don't know if this exists anymore, but at the time we were told by the powers that be you don't cover up your leading man's face with a beard.
Stahelski: We wanted people to think,"Oh, this is not the Keanu we know." We caught a lot of shit. But we felt you can't fire us, so first day of shooting, we had Keanu in the beard, and later that week, when they watched the dailies, with cinematographer Jonathan Sela's now famous half-light shots, people fucking loved it.
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