And Keanu says something really interesting to me on the first John Wick. He comes to me and he goes, āLook, just so you know, little bit of advice, when you edit, once a week, you should see the edit on the big screen.ā And Iām like, OK, weāll try. Later, alone with him, Iām going, āWell, why?ā Heās like, āIām a big-screen actor.ā And I had no fucking idea what that meant. I thought it meant a movie star. And heās like, āNo, no, no, no.ā
And he started talking to me about non-verbal acting, like gestures, motions. And heās like, āLook, when you see me on a little monitor and I give this little look, itās one thing. But when you see it on a 40-foot screen, that lookās going to say a lot. Thatās what I want to play this guy as. So just please be aware of it, so when we punch in on the closeups, itās going to mean something.ā And it kind of really clicked for me right there.
Iāve always been fascinated by non-verbal gesture, body language. Keanu would go through and strip his dialogue down. It was like, āNo, no, nope. Iām just going to cuddle the puppy.ā In the first John Wick, he doesnāt talk for 32 minutes. Try to sell that one to a studio: You have Keanu Reeves and youāre not going to let him talk.
Chad Stahelski on what the John Wick movies owe to Buster Keaton
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