Keanu Reeves Details Nasty On-Set Injury Which ‘Cracked’ His Kneecap

Keanu Reeves stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on July 22, where he detailed the nasty leg injury that left him using a cane earlier this year.

Reeves incurred the injury while working Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, Good Fortune, which is a straight-up comedy role rather than the action parts for which Reeves is known. Ansari also stars in the movie alongside Reeves and Seth Rogen.

Despite doing all manner of stunts for his John Wick franchise, Reeves told Colbert that his knee “cracked like a potato chip” after shooting a seemingly innocuous sequence.

“I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we were in a cold plunge,” Reeves explained. “I was loving it, I was standing there, and we finish the scene, and you know when you’re cold and you’re [shuffling]? I had a bathing suit and a towel, and you put it over your head and you do the cold shuffle?” the actor asked to laughter

“I’m doing the cold shuffle in this room that had protective carpets down and then,” the actor said as he acted out the incident. “There was like a little pocket, just here, and my foot got caught in the pocket in the shuffle, and then I went [down], but [my knee] didn’t follow,” he continued. “And then, in slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but then my knee failed because it’s got some stuff [wrong with it], and I spiked it. And my patella—kneecap—cracked like a potato chip.”

Ansari previously spoke at Cinema Con (via People) about Reeves being “such a trooper” on set following his injury. “He still filmed everything, except some scenes where we needed him to do salsa dancing, which we need to pick up.” Ansari clarified. "He was like, 'I'll do it!' We're like, 'Keanu, calm down. We'll do the salsa dancing once your knee's healed.’”

Good Fortune does not yet have a release date. You can check out Reeves’ interview with Colbert below.