Keanu Reeves provided a dramatic recreation of how he broke his kneecap while filming Monday during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Stephen, 60, asked the 59-year-old actor how the man known for playing action characters like Neo and John Wick injured his left knee.
“What happened? Who attacked you?” Stephen asked.
“Nobody caught me,” Keanu said with humor and a tough-guy voice.
“The accident affected me,” he explained.
Keanu Reeves gave a dramatic reenactment of how he broke his kneecap while filming Monday during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“Were you jumping from building to building? Were you doing a somersault while running over razor blades? What were you doing?” Stephen asked.
“No, Stephen, I was going into the locker room, into a room. I’ll tell you quickly,” Keanu said.
She explained how she was filming a scene for the upcoming comedy Good Fortune with Aziz Ansari, 41, and Seth Rogen, 42, and they were in a cold plunge.
Keanue said he loved it and when they finished, he was doing the cold shuffle.
He said he was doing the ‘cold crawl’ in a room that had protective mats, but his foot got caught in a pocket as he shuffled.
Keanu stood up and walked in front of Stephen’s desk to demonstrate how he fell and his knee gave out.
“And I hit him. I hit him,” Keanu said as he demonstrated how he lowered his knee.
“I just pinned him to the ground,” Stephen said.
Stephen, 60, asked the 59-year-old actor how the man known for playing Neo and John Wick injured his left knee and he showed how it happened.
Keanu stood up and walked in front of Stephen’s desk to demonstrate how he fell and his knee gave out.
After a cold dip, Keanu said he was doing the ‘cold slide’ when he dove in
“And I put a spike on. Like, I put a spike on,” Keanu said as he showed how his knee moved down.
“My kneecap popped like a potato chip, but I didn’t know it. But then all of a sudden my knee started popping,” Keanu said.
“Comedy is hard, man,” Keanu joked.
“That’s what I was going to ask. This isn’t an action movie with Aziz and Rogen,” Stephen said.
“No, it was comedy,” Keanu confirmed.
“Welcome to my life,” Stephen joked.
Keanu was spotted filming in January on crutches and with an ice pack on his knee.
Good Fortune is the directorial debut of Aziz, who also wrote the film and is a co-producer.
The film also stars Keke Palmer and Sandra Oh.
Good Fortune will be released in theaters and distributed by Lionsgate Films.
Keanu was on the CBS talk show to promote his new book he co-authored with China Miéville, 51, titled The Book of Elsewhere.
Keanu was on the CBS talk show to promote his new book he co-authored with China Miéville, 51, titled The Book of Elsewhere.
The speculative fiction novel takes place in an alternate universe to the main BRZRKR universe.
BRZRKR is a planned print, film and television media franchise that Keanu created in 2021 beginning with the titular comic book.
A feature film is in development and will be followed by a two-season anime series adaptation.
Keanu also gave an update on the Constantine project and said he was moving forward with hiring a writer.