None of us anticipated somebody like Keanu Reeves to seem in an animated brief based mostly on Armored Core, and it feels like Secret Stage’s govt producer was probably the most shocked of all.
When Reeves was noticed in that first Secret Stage trailer, it clearly got here as a little bit of a shock – he is a giant title actor in any case, and even when he is in Cyberpunk 2077, I definitely would not have guessed we would see him in an Armored Core animated brief. Funnily sufficient, although, when the present’s govt producer Dave Wilson was requested if there was a job for the actor, he thought it was only a joke. Wilson not too long ago spoke with GamesRadar alongside creator and Deadpool director Tim Miller, the place the 2 spoke about what it was like bringing Reeves aboard to the challenge.
“We’ve not labored with him earlier than, though I might met him briefly,” Miller shared. “He is a large animation fan, and he got here right down to Blur [Studios] to speak to me a few film, one other film totally and stated, ‘What I actually wish to discuss is Love, Demise and Robots. Are you able to inform me all about it? I like animation.’
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“I stated, ‘Effectively, we’re doing this different factor. Would you wish to be in it?’ And he stated, ‘F**ok yeah.’ I stated, ‘Do you have got something particularly you wish to play?’ And he is like, ‘No, simply put me in coach,’ primarily. So I requested Dave, ‘Should you had been to solid Keanu Reeves within the present, what character would he be?’ and at first, Dave thought I used to be joking that Keanu Reeves wished to be within the present.”
Wilson himself went on to notice that he remembered issues barely in another way, being confused at first as a result of Miller “dictates into his telephone”, receiving a textual content that reads “‘Hey, do we now have something for piano?’ And I am like, ‘What?’ After which I noticed after which, sure, I did not imagine it.” Wilson shared that “Keanu truly got here on, it was fairly late within the sequence, and we had all of the art work up on the partitions. So there weren’t that many episodes left to solid, and so then I’d begin getting movies from different actors, and I am like, ‘Tim, I haven’t got any roles left.'”
Clearly there was one fairly large function left that they managed to fill with Reeves, and we do not have lengthy to attend to see how he fares, because the present will begin airing with its first batch of episodes subsequent week through Prime Video on December 10.
