The John Wick star takes his craft seriously, no matter the role.
Keanu Reeves has an important clause in his film contracts.
His performances cannot be digitally manipulated without his consent—and he has a good reason why he’s against it.
In an interview with Wired, Reeves discussed how changing his performance with CGI post-production harms his work as an actor.
“I don’t mind if someone takes a blink out during an edit. But early on, in the early 2000s, or it might have been the ’90s, I had a performance changed,” he said, without divulging which film. “They added a tear to my face, and I was just like, “Huh?!” It was like, I don’t even have to be here.”
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He also touched on deepfakes, which are AI-created media that can insert people in other videos or images, depicting actions that didn’t occur in real life.
“What’s frustrating about that is you lose your agency. When you give a performance in a film, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re participating in that,” explained Reeves. “If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That’s scary. It’s going to be interesting to see how humans deal with these technologies.”
He added, “[These technologies are] having such cultural, sociological impacts, and the species is being studied. There’s so much “data” on behaviors now. Technologies are finding places in our education, in our medicine, in our entertainment, in our politics, and how we war and how we work.”
Besides delving into his concerns about the future of technology, Reeves said he doesn’t seek out memes made about him, but “once in a while, people show ’em to me when they’re fun.”
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