Keanu Reeves revealed that Japanese-British pop star Rina Sawayama “threw herself into” coaching for her film debut in “John Wick: Chapter 4.”
Reeves lately opened up to Leisure Weekly about Sawayama’s efficiency as Akira, the daughter of resort supervisor and Wick’s buddy Shimazu Koji (performed by Hiroyuki Sanada) within the upcoming thriller.
“She was nice,” Reeves stated of Sawayama, who is thought for her critically acclaimed pop tasks in recent times. “I feel she’s superb within the movie, and she or he got here to ‘John Wick’ coaching camp, and simply threw herself into it, was so enthusiastic.”
He added: “She has a dance background, so she was actually nice with transferring by means of house, and it was actually nice to see how she excelled, and in addition introduced her character a taste [to] how she fought. It was nice.”
Sawayama, throughout an interview on “The Tonight Present” final week, mentioned her “John Wick” coaching camp expertise that included 5 weeks of coaching earlier than 5 weeks of taking pictures the movie.
She instructed Jimmy Fallon that the 5 weeks of coaching camp wasn’t sufficient for the movie and, within the first week, one in every of her drills went fallacious.
“I did a transfer [where] you simply dodge beneath, you’re in a squat place and also you simply dodge... I threw my again out, first day,” stated Sawayama, who added that she tried to push by means of the harm.
Sawayama lately praised Reeves as “so candy” in an interview with “Good Morning America” and remarked on how he understood it was her movie debut.
“He’s not a showy particular person. He does issues loads behind the scenes to verify everyone seems to be feeling OK,” Sawayama stated.
“Truthfully, he can flip off the movie star, which is a bizarre factor to say. You suppose somebody like Keanu strolling across the set has an air of movie star continuously, however he’s there simply to work. I didn’t really feel intimidated in any respect.”
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