Lance Reddick Honored By Keanu Reeves & More With Blue Ribbons At ‘John Wick 4’ Premiere

Lance Reddick died astatine the property of 60 connected March 17, conscionable days earlier the premiere of his movie, John Wick: Chapter 4, connected March 20. The formed and different attendees astatine the premiere remembered the precocious histrion by sporting bluish ribbons connected the reddish carpet astatine the Los Angeles event. Blue was Lance’s favourite color, and guests were fixed the ribbons upon arrival. Amongst those wearing the tribute was the movie’s star, Keanu Reeves, who worked with Lance connected each four John Wick movies implicit the years.

Keanu honoring Lance with a bluish ribbon. (Stewart Cook/Shutterstock)

While doing reddish carpet interviews, Keanu got affectional arsenic helium remembered his person and colleague. “Lance is simply a radical person, a peculiar artist, a man of grace and dignity,” helium said, per Variety. “It’s conscionable truly thing special, each clip helium stepped connected set, to ticker the passionateness helium had for his work. It’s truly casual to enactment with him.”

In a abstracted interrogation with Entertainment Tonight, helium added, “Lance is simply a precise beauteous idiosyncratic and arsenic peculiar artist. His grace and dignity, his shining airy of character, was conscionable thing truly special. I’m truly grateful I had the accidental to cognize him and enactment with him implicit astir 10 years.”

Lance Reddick honored astatine ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ premiere. (Stewart Cook/Shutterstock)

Lance died abruptly connected March 17. Days earlier, helium was not successful attendance astatine the NYC premiere of John Wick 4. Keanu and John Wick director Chad Stahelski were promoting the movie successful Canada connected the 17th erstwhile they recovered retired astir Lance’s passing. Chad addressed the assemblage astatine the Canadian premiere erstwhile the quality broke. “I conscionable privation to accidental thing astir a large antheral and a large artist, a bully friend, that was portion of our family,” helium shared. “Lance Reddick passed distant today. So you guys get to conscionable him up connected the screen. He’s a large portion of the household and hopefully you bask the performance.”

Keanu besides released a public statement pursuing Lance’s death. “We are profoundly saddened and heartbroken astatine the nonaccomplishment of our beloved person and colleague,” helium said. “He was the consummate nonrecreational and a joyousness to enactment with. Our emotion and prayers are with his wife Stephanie, his children, household and friends. We dedicate [John Wick: Chapter 4] to his loving memory. We volition miss him dearly.” Lance joined his woman Stephanie successful 2011. He has 2 children — girl Suzanne and lad Christopher — with his archetypal wife, Suzanne.

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