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Keanu Reeves Remembers Late Co-Star Lance Reddick
Keanu Reeves has much than a fewer touching words to picture his precocious co-star Lance Reddick.
The John Wick star, who worked with Lance connected each 4 films successful the enactment franchise, reflected connected The Wire alum's beingness and bequest days aft his decease astatine property 60.
"Lance was a beauteous person, peculiar artist, a man of grace and dignity," Keanu told reporters astatine the John Wick: Chapter 4 Los Angeles premiere March 20. "He was conscionable truly thing special. Every clip helium stepped connected the set, helium had a fantastic passionateness for his work. It was really, truly astonishing to enactment with him."
When asked what his fondest representation is of filming alongside Lance, helium made it known helium doesn't person conscionable one, by answering, "Every time I got to enactment with Lance."
And the Matrix histrion wasn't the lone 1 to grant Lance astatine the John Wick movie premiere, wherever formed members sported royal bluish ribbons successful the precocious actor's honor. Shamier Anderson, who plays Tracker successful the film, took clip connected the reddish carpet to look backmost connected the interaction the Fringe histrion had connected him some personally and professionally.
"That antheral was decidedly 1 of my relation models increasing up arsenic a Black man, arsenic a Black actor," Shamier exclusively told E! News astatine the time. "He's connected our hearts today."
Admiration is besides shared by Rina Sawayama, who appears arsenic Akira successful the film. "What I'll retrieve is his unthinkable performance," she exclusively told E! News. "I've been a instrumentality of his work, and he's conscionable idiosyncratic who onscreen was his quality and it was unthinkable what helium did."
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Incredible whitethorn person been a connection that Lance himself would usage to picture John Wick: Chapter 4. Days earlier his passing, he reflected connected the 4th installment.
"I couldn't judge that it was bigger than the past one," Lance told E! News exclusively connected March 3 of the movie. "I don't cognize however you tin person much enactment and amended action, but we do. Also, the affectional stakes person been raised I consciousness for the characters much than immoderate different franchise."
And John Wick: Chapter 4 isn't the past clip we'll spot Lance arsenic Charon. Along with Keanu and Ian McShane, he'll reprise his relation successful the Ana de Armas-led spinoff, Ballerina.
On March 17, Lance's rep confirmed to E! News that the histrion had passed distant of earthy causes successful his Studio City, Calif., location that morning.
Following quality of Lance's passing, Keanu and John Wick director Chad Stahelski shared touching words successful his memory.
"We are profoundly saddened and heartbroken astatine the nonaccomplishment of our beloved person and colleague Lance Reddick," they wrote successful a March 17 connection to E! News. "He was the consummate nonrecreational and a joyousness to enactment with. We dedicate the movie to his loving memory."
John Wick: Chapter 4 volition beryllium successful theaters and IMAX on March 24, 2023.
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