Transcript for Keanu Reeves explains how they pulled off the action scenes in 'John Wick: Chapter 2'

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And he did not. So I welcome you Keon and with if full in these he has some thanks very much really appreciate that you enjoyed the film it's just it's beyond enjoyment because what you're seeing in his we'll explain to the world what John is doing now but to meet his C. An action man. We're I can actually see you the action. And where can I see the whole screen being taken up by that head to toe with people who can move on screen so it's not the editor having to work over breakfast with all the scissors and there at all it is it's. Yeah well I you can't say it but I can't if there's like a Michael Bay way of doing action where you just cut and here you see it. Here so to me it looks like what should we must say it's not better or worse it's just different I can states. You can see a different unit to me. I see this very rarely. Yeah you know I sought in the first one announced seed in the second one word and when I look at it. It's he gives me jewel. Cool 'cause there's it's like choreography to me there's allow land and there's John with chapter tip they're both quarry graph. Graduate that there. Kind of beautiful and thrilling and artful. Gretzky realized. None of us and that's really the the hope in the ambition and everyone who. Who worked on chapter turek and from the first film which had sell skew the director. Who is part of the team and in in the first film and then directed the second by himself. Is that. Longer takes see the action. And for me that's kind of what I agree upon trying to do is well I mean. Even likens be your point parade core and certainly with the matrix films it was like. For me was that deplete the character and you're actually doing things in your making a connection with the audience at my new little different I enjoy it like that and I loved during elections. Well it's it did this start because Chad you're director with he actually you are stunt double on making the that's where it happened. You've been writing I'm not do in this crap. Chad come in here in the you know it with. Well I mean we both really cut RT well not me but very mean. We all went which house ski school in mind so we've worked on them matrix trilogy forward. All in my three years ago. You know those filmmakers that way to shoot action. The cinema of it the preparations for the design of it. You know bouts at the school we both went through and I met Chad. On the first nature too he played he was stunt double for their neo Tom Sanderson on all three films. So that's. Yeah and I'm not really that guy recess so I can't do this like let's not I mean there's really for meters at the foot there's a definite line between action. In the stock. You know I mean so I can do as much as I can do but if it's a stunt I'm not there. Is it because an insurance company. No it's because you're getting hit by a car. I can't like. And here you're going to be wish her devotion. Where it's because when Chad was doing that he's like you know getting he's getting pulled by a wire ariz hitting. Speeds of twenty some odd miles an hour. Into a wall. I mean I'd like to do it devotes a stunt person not some huge knot in chapter two flipping common right over your show don't know about York OK OK yes all of the all of the flip being in all of a hand to hand and all of the gun work. But when John wick gets hit by a car. It's known yet yet we're not doing. Face replacement and you know and I tried by mean there's a stunt person doing that but but to be fair I mean even and John wick this because there's. It pushes even stunt people. You know because it's like. There's a sequence where you know John wick in the character castings but my comment going down the stairs. Oh yes but it's like three flights ST you know and you missed on the wounded. That's no joke. Not only to have done it just looks brutal for every right that's the fun of it. I mean that's the fun and that's ahead of me and everybody we ought to do it and and to an on your earlier point what you're saying like I hope that they didn't you know. Mess up the sequel and I was really a big concern for us and lead when we were trying to figure out why would we. What's the next chapter when we heard that we had the opportunity to do it because the audience enjoyed the first one. So then you know the business part of show business in a case yet the chance. You know it's like why we make it what's the story we're gonna detail and you know annoyed when. The chatted director Derek Cole Stan view regional writer and producer bicycle walk pass along. On Basilan want ink and myself we all came together sat around table and just started to cook and a. But in the first one the start off and that's anything I'm do start up is that. You've retired you know average our guy who's just been such a professional men that they call you the boogie man. John wit is. No no I'm the guy you've sand in two. Get get of the boogie man. Well you're dad give a guy that they keep saying in both movies this I walked into a bar and killed three people with a and it's. Yet with that and so. It's a bad sit but his wife has died he's miserable and depressed. These guys come in. Russian. Absolute worst kind of the way and steal your 69 mustang and kill your dog daisy which is left to view buys. Your wife. You're that's why you're yes you are one angry answer be yes and yes that's the first best efforts went so now tell everybody why. You're so pissed off in chip to chip. Well the film takes place about five days after the first and so John is film opens up which are trying to get his car back it was sort. The main the main part of a plot for the first. They're the film is basically. Someone is coming to collect the debt. It's called a marker which is a kind of John Wiki and super IO EU. So in the first whom we learned that John got out by doing the impossible task you've got out of the underworld. Being an assassin by doing this one last job. But I asked for help and that person who I asked for help. Comes calling in it's basically you mark this marker. You gotta argue with my blood and now he can ask me to do what ever he wants me to do if I don't do it. He can kill me the continental world Indian world. The guild if you want will kill me if I kill him the bearer of my marker they'll kill me as well anyway you it anyway you turn. I'm done now leading us I have to do it right that's right and and so young in for me John John denies the marker. Ryan knows I'm not that guy anymore given nobody cares what yeah in his like pictures overs and guide so. Hijinks ensue and I basically. For the first part you know. Repay this debt but I asked him not to do it and he took some things to help change my mind. So. Yeah and I feel like John wick is fighting for John's life John who's grieving his wife on. Who wants and is. I know some people don't think the two big deal. The and I see David dog in the end of the first you really do you have a dog I don't personally well then just get off the no I what you highly. I do guide dogs as a kid. The kid you haven't. There's no dog living and how strong your childhood memories are men I do know I can call upon all upon those ma. I thought they'd be just that puppy house and then if you yell my friend hounds and and you can go hang out by just one establishing the cared about that of course I care about that. Because I seen people write about the first when an instant. What's he so pistol heard a dog dying for and that just makes me want to turn John gap right yeah we all have a remote zone. Are you got into. Training when you were doing matrix. That would be before that point Gary you have a natural act let misses them to you to do it that you can move. To do that but this is he'd be. I mean we're talking. Kama gave what they're calling this gun flew gone are the courtroom. There's kicking there's knives I'd never seen so many ways. As I had in this movie he kills them. This is there's every week you take. Certain pleasure of just like OK so how else could we do it. Yeah on the news so there's a lot of training and it a lot of jujitsu judo which I'd never done except for the for the first summit in the first film and so this because I had that based on the second. Time around we go to a different level higher level he. And there's a lot of gun work live fire training a lot of live fire training on this project was that means flat fire she Neil Bush real bullets C. That's what I call act. Okay she felt real bullet and it's leisure activities ski out just trying for adding that no on probably didn't shoot there were no mention guns people will. But I crazy. No. Maybe there's a line we haven't crossed the third OK you might have eaten anything real bullets in training. But you're not when you doing this but. You can throw so many punches and make it this movie does never looks thing it's great so how many times do you really get hit. We try not to sometimes you kind of have to hit but it's you know put a pat on a what a shame that day. Notes that are common on side but you know I didn't common more. And how do you react use like no he was he was great he was like. He loved the first film so he was on board with John lecturing me so because we have some. Really complicated fights we have one fight it's very complicated technical jujitsu knives pistols. But anyway he was really into it and he he committed the time you and Laurence Fishburne. This is are you in this is saying this is morphing. Laurence Fishburne is more music and so in and demands a legend the one of his lines to you to your cap to right away said the man demanded. The on the ledge end it is. Win. You don't see Baird retired. More or can. He doesn't have to do a lot of battling with few is he. Basically has no we we don't we I'd go to him for help. But he's kind of like this he's dangerous character and known about KC's I guess he says all knowing all seen. You can't see this movie without seeing the end of chapter two and thing. Why. Yet it's gonna get yeah so I'm just assuming there passed via three. What people will it'll be up to an audience I mean if I mean we made this we made this film this meal with love and if people enjoy it then we'll get a chance. Story. I don't know you don't know you every time you hear which was once before. I always say you OI always bring up bill and and you say yes. Somebody's in a room somewhere working on its could. This is like. Two and a half though they have they have the writers and it's been seven years that they've been. Talking about this for it yet that this studios that are dealing with the rights of the picture of cancer and the work it out. There's scripts and there's drops in the writers are waiting to write notes but that's show business don't seem to be talking. Will you kind of talking to each other but I mean I don't know the details of the deal but there's some Google. You should know the deed to each nine the man knocking the main thing. Happening in sometimes sometimes you are the man Peter giant to do it. It could do it made calls are right in college you can make cost figures don't give you. That's right it is it's all that I just saw you do movies in Sundance this area to the home which is lovely film. It's nothing like John chapter of yet but it's about anorexia. And your doctor. Gets you. To go to go this one makes you say and do this well with some abundance of my guess is a story for all of laments that the script. The script the story looks at who's involved sometimes it's the film review filmmaker working with that here ever do it yet so. In that film definitely the script and the subject matter and who was involved Knox and later U verse first feature. I don't know like doing different things you know Omnia only to be able I like to field of view different. John rose simply different kinds of rules but when you actually have time off. We do our work on working. You work on working yeah I gotta work on orchid you know there's films that you're trying to get made and yet these stories that have been on. I'm known death so he could be working on national Hacer. We we actually in the mining lawyer. And I'm waiting for a call back. And believe me it's true OK it's true it's true so what you work and work we're going working do we need just one did he. Beginning on yes. Well I don't out of if you don't like to catch every friends it is usually away from home. So it's nice Vietnam for a second and catcher with friends and family I have. Went into the motorcycle business to a few years ago. Five years ago started motorcycle companies and making motorcycles. For its own reserves couple years. So that's been. Really fun. On La like creating its own stories I ask actors. Filmmakers when there on there's always that movie that they never found the audience to chip you've got a lot of movies and found huge on. It's so they have no what I'm but some have not maybe for good reason. But I don't need not make things I'm good reason but maybe you still love it. So that's what I'm looking for. That you did you actually said you should take a look at this is floating. Be about you. It. I mean I think a film like that is. Earlier Mike Mills film. A sucker. I think. A scanner darkly he and it's quirky. But generation. And shot on super sixteen. Now we always end as we did when you were here before in a slight bit of song. OK I don't know what is in your head. Your musical person. You're adults are yet to bands I did Becky for there has to be sticky and and dogs you have no instruments with in the zone that we've that we were where's this going to just a little to do. We saw fit that before I never pick a song for any. Pages do the song. They feel at the moment. Look at this that this is not a face that John we would show the world no doubt his base is far. It doesn't have that searing. It. It. I want to believe in not to say only a tiny. And here. Tiniest bit of song okay. Whereas in Michigan today it's kind of the end of the day it is the end of the day you know from is that dishonest. The problem. Characters all live in love the gay and never wanted to. Well let them right to do. I can't and he does Marlene Dietrich the last thing I would ever expect from him and yet. There do it's always this air. Yeah. You really ought always for its that the reservoir that Q that yours.

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