Rina Sawayama is gearing as much as make her characteristic movie debut in John Wick 4 this spring. Forward of the discharge of the film on Could 27, the “Maintain the Woman” singer sat down for an interview with Good Morning America on Wednesday (March 15) to speak about how she was solid, what the stunt work was like and her expertise working with Keanu Reeves.
“It was actually like a Hollywood dream state of affairs,” the pop star mentioned of being solid as Akira Shimazu within the film. “I’d been doing self tapes within the background for a pair years. I’ve by no means truly landed something. I got here very shut, although, truly getting The Matrix, which is an entire totally different story. I truly bought a referred to as out of the blue from Chad Stahelski, the director. He mentioned, ‘I’m looking for this position and I’ve seen your music movies, and I see that you simply act and I can see that you simply do dance and choreography and battle scenes … What are you doing for the subsequent three months?’”
Two days later, Sawayama mentioned, she was in Berlin filming for John Wick 4. Her time on set got here to a quick halt early on after sustaining a minor harm whereas attempting to carry out the motion choreography, and wanted to take per week off to get better.
“Chad and John Wick …the fashion of capturing of motion is that you simply shoot from begin to end. It’s not very uneven by way of the cuts, and so that you must be taught the choreography from begin to end,” she defined. “It’s lengthy sequences, and really on the primary week, I pinched a nerve in my again simply doing essentially the most fundamental strikes, in order that was so not cool. After per week, I had the most effective medical therapy and bought higher and I used to be in a position to be taught all of it. 5 weeks, it felt prefer it wasn’t lengthy sufficient. I needed extra time.”
Of working with the film’s star, Keanu Reeves, Sawayama revealed that decades-long reviews of him being variety and simple to work with are certainly true. “He was so candy. Clearly figuring out it was my first position, [he was] simply taking care of me behind the scenes,” she defined, including that when the cameras cease rolling, Reeves is humble. “He’s not a really showy particular person. He does issues rather a lot behind the scenes to verify everyone seems to be feeling OK. So variety, and actually, he can flip off the celeb, which is a bizarre factor to say. You assume somebody like Keanu strolling round on set has an air of celeb round them continuously, however he’s simply there to work. I didn’t really feel intimidated in any respect.”
In the course of the summer season, the pop star will hit up the music competition circuit. She’s additionally set to carry out at Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Roskilde, Mad Cool and others earlier than concluding at Lollapalooza Berlin in September.
Watch Sawayama speak about filming John Wick 4 within the video above.
