Keanu Reeves was Aziz Ansari’s first option to play a guardian angel in Good Fortune as a result of he “has a fame of being such a candy, sort of virtually angelic determine”.
The 61-year-old actor stars within the new comedy-action film, which tells the story of an angel who makes an attempt to indicate a struggling man that cash does not assure happiness and Aziz knew instantly that Keanu was excellent for the function.
He informed The Hollywood Reporter: “He has a fame of being such a candy, sort of virtually angelic determine and he additionally has this knowledge. If somebody informed you, ‘Hey, you realize Keanu’s like 3,000 years previous,’ you’d be like, ‘That sort of tracks,’ He has this depth to him. He’s additionally so humorous on this movie. I checked out a few of his older work, stuff he did in Invoice Ted and Parenthood, and took little items of that and constructed this character and he simply knocks it out of the park.”
And Aziz revealed he had his personal guardian angels to assist him along with his directorial debut, which additionally stars Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer and Sandra Oh.
He defined: “So a lot of my director associates … Spike Jones really helpful Carter Burwell for me to make use of this, and he was such a form man. Steven Soderbergh watched an early lower of the movie and gave me some very constructive suggestions that actually brightened my coronary heart after engaged on the film a lot. If you’re on this enterprise of directing and writing, you look to your heroes. All of them have been so good to me, so I really feel like I owe them a shout-out.”
He additionally praised Rogen, who he beforehand collaborated with on Humorous Individuals, Observe and Report and This Is the Finish.
He mentioned: “He’s not solely an actor within the movie, however he was all the time enthusiastic about the movie as a complete and the way we may make it higher and was so supportive of me. He’s one of many individuals who has pulled off what we’re attempting to drag off right here when it comes to making movies that folks can get pleasure from and have this communal expertise. So any of his steerage and knowledge I took to coronary heart.”
