10 Actors That Totally Overprepared For A Role

10. Keanu Reeves Worked On Book Binding Skills - John Wick

Being an actor is not just playing pretend and reading scripts. Depending on the projects you work on, you’ll almost certainly be asked to do things you’ve never done before. That isn’t just limited to learning different martial arts and doing death-defying stunts. Sometimes you get to learn a new hobby.

In an interview with Uproxx, Keanu Reeves was asked what he thought the character of professional assassin John Wick did in his free-time to which the star immediately had the answer: he binds books. He was so sure of this in fact because scenes of such had been shot for the first Wick film but had been omitted from the final runtime. In fact, you can still see book binding apparatus in his house in the movie.

What Reeves neglects to mention here, but can be seen in behind the scenes material, is that he actively learned how to bind books so he could do it on-screen. This is hardly a simple process, so it’s both an impressive and unfortunate level of commitment considering it was ultimately cut from the picture.

It’s fair to say most of us wouldn’t know legitimate book binding if we saw it so they could’ve just as easily have shot around this. But Keanu, ever lustful for the creative process and trying new things, jumped into the skill with both feet.

What a guy.