Keanu Reeves Says His Knee 'Failed' and 'Cracked Like a Potato Chip' During Injury on “Good Fortune” Set
“Comedy’s hard, man,” the actor quipped
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Keanu ReevesKeanu Reeves is sharing details about the on-set accident that left him needing crutches back in January.
During a July 22 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the 51-year-old actor opened up about the moment his knee “cracked like a potato chip” while filming Good Fortune, which he stars in alongside Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.
“I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we were in a cold plunge,” he said on the show. “I was loving it, I was standing there, and we finish the scene, and you know when you’re cold and you’re [shuffling]? I had a bathing suit and a towel, and you put it over your head and you do the cold shuffle?”
“I’m doing the cold shuffle in this room that had protective carpets down and then, just here, there was like a little pocket, and my foot got caught in the pocket in the shuffle, and then I went [down], but [my knee] didn’t follow,” he continued. “And then, in slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but then my knee failed because it’s got some stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella — kneecap — cracked like a potato chip.”
Reeves, an action movie icon, then quipped, “Comedy’s hard, man.”
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Earlier this year, Ansari said that Reeves was "such a trooper" following the injury, noting that "he still filmed everything except some scenes where he needed him to do salsa dancing, which we need to pick up."
"He was like, 'I'll do it!' We're like, 'Keanu, calm down. We'll do the salsa dancing once your knee's healed,' " Ansari said while speaking at CinemaCon in April.
Ansari noted that Reeves has done extreme stunts without ever needing "to go to the hospital or anything."
"He's done those Wick movies, all the Matrix stuff. In Speed, he actually did attempt to do the jump from the car to the bus. It wasn't the take they used, but he did do it," he said at the time.
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