Keanu Reeves Says His Knee ‘Cracked Like a Potato Chip’ on Set of New Movie

ACTOR KEANU REEVESsays his knee “cracked like a potato chip” while filming his upcoming project Good Fortune. The actor, who will costar in the film with Seth Rogen, told the story on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The dramedy film will be written and directed by Aziz Ansari.

Reeves told the story of injury, which came a result of filming a scene in a cold plunge.

“I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen, and we were in a cold plunge,” Reeves said. “I was loving it, I was standing there, and we finished 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.”

The action star revealed that at first, he didn’t think he was injured. It wasn’t until later, when his knee began to swell, that he knew something was quite wrong. “Comedy is hard,” the actor joked.

The film’s director admires the actor’s perseverance as the injury occurred 15 days into filming of the project. The director praised his efforts at CinemaCon earlier this year.

“He still filmed everything except some scenes where he needed him to do salsa dancing,” Ansari said. “He was like, ‘I’ll do it!’ We’re like, ‘Keanu, calm down. We’ll do the salsa dancing once your knee is healed.’”

The comedy drama Good Fortune will be released by Lionsgate, and doesn’t yet have a release date.

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