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Keanu Reeves may be a leading man now — but life wasn’t always so glamorous.
In a segment for PEOPLE in which the cast of the new film Good Fortune interviewed one another, Reeves told his co-star Aziz Ansari: “Before I got paid, I was landscaping.”
“Well, I was like a young kid so I was pushing a lawnmower, I was going through trees and getting handed a chainsaw… But it was fun, I liked it,” The John Wick action star, 60, added.
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Good Fortune also stars Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer and Sandra Oh.
The film follows a “well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel” who “meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Ansari) and a wealthy venture capitalist (Rogen).”
Reeves previously recounted suffering an injury on the set of Good Fortune, telling The Late Show host Stephen Colbert that his knee “cracked like a potato chip” filming with Ansari, 42, and Rogen, 43, in a cold plunge.
“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?” he recalled in July 2024.
Reeves added, “I’m doing the cold shuffle in this room that had protective carpets down and then, just here, there was like a little pocket, and my foot got caught in the pocket in the shuffle, and then I went [down], but [my knee] didn’t follow. And then, in slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but then my knee failed because it’s got some stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella — kneecap — cracked like a potato chip.”
