Keanu Reeves recently opened up about an injury he suffered while working on his latest movie, Good Fortune. In an interview, the star actor described how the injury occurred, revealing he suffered a vertical break on his kneecap. In Good Fortune, Reeves plays a good-intentioned but careless angel who falls from grace after unintentionally making a mistake while trying to help a human.
Keanu Reeves reveals he got injured more while working on Good Fortune
Keanu Reeves recently appeared on the New Heights podcast hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce, where he discussed his experience working on the Good Fortune movie.
During the interview, Jason Kelce briefly touched upon the John Wick star’s action film stuntwork and asked the latter if it was true that he suffered a kneecap injury while working on Good Fortune.
“Yep,” the 61-year-old actor responded, prompting the Kelces to chuckle in surprise. “I was doing a scene, and I was going back to the dressing room, which was at a residence, and they had a carpet laid down to protect the owner’s carpet,” he added.
Reeves continued, “And then there was a little section, and it caught my foot, and I started to fall, and then I spiked my left knee, and my left patella went like this.” Reeves visually described his injury by putting his two palms together to represent his patella or kneecap and then separating them slightly. The Kelces reacted in shock as Reeves said, “My kneecap, I had a vertical break. It didn’t break the top or bottom.”
“A vertical break? I’ve never heard of this!” Travis Kelce responded, with Jason echoing the response. However, the Bill & Ted star claimed that the vertical break was better than a horizontal break. Jason Kelce concurred but remarked that the injury was still “messed up.”
The former Philadelphia Eagles center asked Reeves if he required surgery. The latter replied he didn’t, saying he was immobilized and wore a brace for 10 weeks. “Until they pulled the blood out of the capsule, the pain was banana cakes,” he added.
Jason Kelce recalled once falling similarly to Reeves, but on grass. He added that a kneecap injury didn’t happen, but that his bursa sac burst. As he elaborated, Reeves made some funny, intelligible sounds, causing Travis Kelce to laugh.
Reeves later remarked, “Anyway, so comedy is hard,” prompting laughter from the Kelces.
