Major ‘John Wick 3’ Action Scene Nearly Ruined By Cats

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One of the extra thrilling (in an already action-packed trailer) moments teased in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which opens in theaters on Friday, is when so-called “assassin dogs” take out some baddies on behalf of Keanu Reeves’ titular character — which had been skilled by none apart from Halle Berry herself. One may suppose that working with canine in an motion film — on this case, Belgian Malinois hounds — could be difficult sufficient, however director Chad Stahelski discovered one other hurdle whereas filming within the Moroccan city of Essaouira.

Lots and many “f*cking cats.”

Stahelski defined to EW that when the crew went to scout the placement within the winter, there was what appeared, on the time, a manageable quantity of cats hanging round. But that every one modified once they confirmed as much as start filming:

We had been like, There’s a couple of cats right here, we’ll get a cat division, and we’re going to maneuver all of the cats out. We present as much as shoot and there have been actually a thousand cats, okay? And the cats have b—s of metal. They’re not afraid of something. We needed to construct large partitions of cages. They’re simply stray cats, however we wish to be good handlers. So, we constructed little cat homes, put them in, needed to feed them. We had partitions of cats. Walls of fucking cats. The quantity of f—ing cat meals — we had been most likely feeding extra cats than folks on set.”

Berry elaborated that filming was “kind of chaos,” which appears to be placing it mildly, as a result of because it seems, canine wish to chase cats! “It was often hard to keep the dogs focused, because they’d see a cat and off they’d go, and sometimes that could ruin a whole great take,” she defined.