How Keanu Reeves' stunt double became 'John Wick's' action auteur

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How Keanu Reeves' stunt double became 'John Wick's' action auteur
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JohnWick director Chad Stahelski says he “used the ‘John Wicks’ as a comfort zone to really explore who I am. The first two movies are love letters. The third one is the first time I asked, ‘What’s me?’ The fourth is probably the closest I’ve gotten.”

“You rode your bicycle, went to the woods and you had a stick,” Stahelski said with a smile. “That stick was your M-16, your sword, your fire hose, a rocket ship, whatever you needed it to be.” Through his father’s friend, he started learning judo, then karate and jujitsu, competing in his teens and becoming immersed in the world of martial arts.

“I’m from a small town in Massachusetts. I hadn’t seen anything. And by 20 I’d traveled around the world and experienced some of the most insane martial arts instructors on the planet.” “John Wick 4,” written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch, finds Stahelski and Reeves’ collaboration in full bloom, aligned in their vision for everyone’s

Yet even as he demands more from the Wick onscreen, Stahelski knows the limitations of the human body. Putting his underworld Odysseus through escalating set pieces meant asking more of Reeves, who at 58 sells the wear and tear acutely well. “Look: you can’t fight Father Time,” said Stahelski, who still teaches regularly at 87Eleven. “Even if it was three action sequences for each movie, you’d be asking more just to maintain.

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