Street Kings Press Conference
This was a serious subject matter you were all dealing with while shooting, but was there an light moments on the set?
Keanu Reeves: “It's interesting. When you're dealing with a violent environment the jokes get pretty dark and the humor gets pretty – what – loose, sardonic. It's pretty black humor, but it would make us laugh.”
Jay Mohr: “I usually horse around all the time, but Keanu's work that he had to do was so, so dark that you don't want to come in and go, 'Hey, you hear the one about the farmer who shot the dog and then kicked the guy in the balls?' You don't want to be cracking jokes when the guy has to have like a nine minute fight scene in about 30 seconds. So just out of respect to Keanu you pull back on it, which is frightening if you're on set.”
Common said that a lot of the actors on the set where asking you questions about The Matrix. Do you feel that will always be a part of your life and career and that sci-fi will be a parallel career to your other movies? You just did The Day the Earth Stood Still remake, which is kind of sci-fi…
Keanu Reeves: “No, it's not. I guess, hopefully. Maybe, yeah.”
Do you feel like you have two separate careers though?
Keanu Reeves: “I'm the ambassador for The Matrix trilogy. My operating hours are…[laughing].”
Can you talk about The Day The Earth Stood Still? Was the original important to you and what were your thoughts on updating it?
Keanu Reeves: “It's a classic film. Hopefully we have a shot at making it a good film. I just finished it last week and they're still filming. It's got Kathy Bates, Jennifer Connelly, John Cleese, Jaden Smith… It's got a great cast. Scott Derrickson directed it. Hopefully we'll do the original right. It's more of a reinvention, a kind of extension of that and sort of appropriated to our time, just as that felt right for then.”
