The director on hurling Keanu Reeves into the gnarliest pratfall imaginable, why Scott Adkins appears in a fat suit, and whether this is good-bye.
at the time. And it’s the way of dying, the art of dying. You can only have a good death if you’ve had a good life. We started going down this road of Bushido samurai and anti-samurai mentality. And how does this philosophy tie into all the movies? How’s he going to get out of this?I don’t think we felt content with what we had done with John and his choices. If you look at it, he’s always made choices that hurt his friends.
We’re going to go all the way up. Then “What would Buster Keaton do? He’d make it to the top and trip on his shoelaces and fall all the way back down and have to go back up — let’s keep doing that!” We’re going to do the biggest stair fall you’ve ever seen. Then, even better, we’re going to have John and Donnie Yen as Caine meet up, and Caine’s got to help him get to the top.
Rina Sawayama is a revelation in this. And given her character, Akira’s prominence in the end-credit sequence, it seems like she’s going to have a place in theBut she had never professionally acted before. I understand you hired her after seeing a couple of music videos? How do you go from that to giving Rina such a prominent, ass-kicking role?
I was like, “Oh my God, that’s a live-action anime. She’s an anime character.” Just on a whim, I talked to my agents: “Hey, let’s see if we can find her.” I knew very little.
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