How ‘Always Be My Maybe’ Landed Keanu Reeves For Netflix

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Netflix’s behavior of dropping trailers shortly earlier than a film or TV sequence debuts could be as a result of streaming large’s consciousness of individuals’s brief consideration spans. It’s additionally clearly good to save cash on months of promotion like theatrical releases should do. So, audiences weren’t conscious that Keanu Reeves would have a scene-stealing function within the Ali Wong-starring romcom, Always Be My Maybe, till a couple of weeks earlier than launch time. Suddenly, of us seemed ahead to Keanu swaggering in slo-mo for a task wherein he performed a model of himself and even improvised among the higher moments.

You may surprise how Wong and Netflix bought fortunate sufficient to land Reeves, however the reality is that Reeves was additionally fairly lucky to land the function. After all, Wong’s necessities for the actor who match the function have been fairly robust to fulfill. She wished all of her character’s love pursuits (additionally performed by Daniel Dae Kim and Randall Park) to be “funny, a great actor and an Asian American icon.” Reeves match the invoice, as Wong advised Hollywood Reporter, and Park weighed in on why he believes that Reeves took the function:

“He told me that when he considers doing a project, it’s all about the people, the script and the director. He must’ve liked all three of those things because he said ‘yes’ …. [and the] only person in the entire universe who fits all [my] parameters is Keanu Reeves,” Wong mentioned.

When the actor signed onto the challenge, Park mentioned he couldn’t imagine it however wasn’t shocked when he took the function. “He was a giant fan of (Wong’s Netflix stand-up) Baby Cobra, in order that I believe was the important thing to getting him,” he mentioned. “It’s amazing.”

Reeves has typically spoken about his Chinese-Hawaiian heritage inside interviews through the years, and the John Wick star just lately advised Essence that he does self-identify as an individual of shade however is “not a spokesperson” for the Asian-American neighborhood. As for Wong’s additional perspective on hiring him, she just lately advised Vulture that along with Reeves becoming her acknowledged standards for the function, it was essential to solid somebody who’d be the “worst nightmare” of Park’s character, Marcus. Clearly, Keanu can be thought of a “worse” rival than Daniel Dae Kim’s character, who was engaged to Wong’s Sasha when the film started. Well, Keanu does steal a lot of the film throughout his prolonged cameo, however the challenge shines on an total foundation. Always Be My Maybe undoubtedly deserves a spot in your queue.

(Via Hollywood Reporter, Essence & Vulture)