Keanu Reeves Broke His Kneecap In A Not-So-Death-Defying Way While Filming New Movie
Keanu Reeves busted his knee after tripping on a rug while on set for the new film “Good Fortune,” Aziz Ansari, the movie’s director, said Wednesday.
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on the set in January.The injury was literally kept under wraps as the images showed the “John Wick” actor with a heavily bandaged leg.
“About, I don’t know, 15 days into shooting with me, I was like, ‘Hey, just go chill in your dressing room for 15 minutes.’ And he tripped on a rug. He’s like, ‘Aah, my knee,’” Ansari said at CinemaCon, according to People.
“Poor guy,” he continued, per The Hollywood Reporter. “He was such a trooper, and he fractured his kneecap and continued to do all the scenes.”
Well, not all of them.
Reeves “still filmed everything except some scenes where [Ansari] needed him to do salsa dancing, which we need to pick up,” Ansari said, per People, adding that the action movie star wanted to gut out the pain and complete his scenes.
“He was like, ‘I’ll do it!’ We’re like, ‘Keanu, calm down. We’ll do the salsa dancing once your knee’s healed,’” the “Master of None” star said.
Echoing reports that Reeves has done most of his stunts in action films, Ansari claimed that Reeves previously never had to go to the hospital for his movie heroics.
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