Keanu Reeves Mourns ‘John Wick’ Co-Star Lance Reddick: ‘We Dedicate ‘Chapter Four’ To His Memory’

Keanu Reeves mourned his precocious John Wick co-star Lance Reddick, who passed distant astatine the property of 60 connected Friday, March 17. The Matrix star, on with the John Wick: Chapter Four director, Chad Stahelski, shared a statement, per Deadline, writing, “We are profoundly saddened and heartbroken astatine the nonaccomplishment of our beloved person and workfellow Lance Reddick.” They added, “He was the consummate nonrecreational and a joyousness to enactment with. Our emotion and prayers are with his woman Stephanie, his children, household and friends. We dedicate the movie to his loving memory. We volition miss him dearly.”

Keanu Reeves and Lance Reddick starred unneurotic successful each 4 ‘John Wick’ films. (Everett)

Keanu and Lance worked connected the enactment franchise unneurotic for all fours installments, including the latest one, John Wick: Chapter Four. Keanu, of course, played the titular role, portion Lance played Charon, the concierge astatine the Continental, a edifice for assassins. Both artists were successful the midst of the upcoming sequel’s promotional circuit erstwhile Lance passed away. His rep confirmed the quality of his decease and said Lance died of earthy causes, per Deadline.

Keanu evidently cared a large woody for Lance, arsenic proven not lone by his tribute but besides successful an anecdote Lance erstwhile revealed during a 2021 interrogation with Vulture. “During John Wick: Chapter Four, my archetypal time of filming happened to beryllium Keanu’s birthday. But helium wasn’t successful the scene,” Lance began. “He came to the acceptable anyhow astatine 9 o’clock astatine nighttime with his woman who I had ne'er met. And she is … tin I accidental a atrocious word? His woman is chill arsenic f***. And she told maine that she asked Keanu what helium wanted to bash for his day and helium said, ‘I privation to spell spot Lance.’ He’d ne'er done this earlier but helium wrote maine a enactment thanking maine for what I brought to the quality successful these movies. And helium wanted to springiness the enactment to me. I’ll ne'er hide it. I’m going to outcry now.” Same.

Lance Reddick and Keanu Reeves shared a genuine friendship. (Shutterstock)

If that wasn’t capable of an ego boost for Keanu, Lance added, “Whenever I enactment with a large movie prima for the archetypal time, I support my defender up to support my enactment from an ego, and if there’s immoderate large movie prima who’s not that person, it’s Keanu.”

The Baltimore autochthonal had an unthinkable vocation successful Hollywood, which began successful the mid-1990s, arsenic helium recovered enactment impermanent starring connected shows similar The Nanny and New York Undercover. He besides recovered immoderate movie enactment with parts in The Siege and Great Expectations. Landing a recurring relation connected HBO’s Emmy-winning 2000 miniseries The Corner lit a occurrence nether Lance, and helium rapidly parlayed that into a twelve episodes connected HBO’s Oz and a notable storyline connected Law & Order: SVU.

All these realistic parts were simply an amuse bouche for his grittiest role: Cedric Daniels successful The Wire. Lance played the constabulary serviceman successful each 60 episodes of 1 of the astir critically acclaimed shows successful history. He besides made his people successful Fringe, The Blacklist, Godzilla vs. Kong and galore much high-profile projects. He is s survived by his wife, Stephanie, and their children Yvonne and Christopher.

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