Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski

"I was working on a show called The Pretender,” Chad Stahelski told IndieWire in 2014, “and my boss noticed the resemblance: 'Hey, you look like Keanu Reeves!' He said ‘You do all that martial arts stuff, right? They’re having an audition for something down in Burbank. Why don’t you go check it out after you’re done with this?'"

The audition turned out to be for The Matrix, and Stahelski would go on to serve as Keanu Reeves's stunt double for many of his films, among them Constantine, The Gift and The Replacement -- as well as coordinating the stunts for Reeves's directorial debut Man of Tai Chi. Reeves would then repay the favour: filling the title role in Stahelski's directorial debut, John Wick.

Stahelski is also something of a legend in the stunt world, having served as Brandon Lee's body double on The Crow following Lee's untimely death during production, before serving as a stunt double and later stunt coordinator on everything from Wild Wild West to Spider-Man 2 to the Hunger Games franchise.