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Why ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Has MUSICALS to Thank for Its Epic Action Scenes · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Keanu Reeves. Butt kicking
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  Speaker 1: action hero John Wick might be one of the baddest
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  Speaker 1: and most lethal action heroes in cinematic history, But the
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  Speaker 1: director of all four John Wick films, Chad Stellski, didn't
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  Speaker 1: draw from action films with stars like Arnold Schwartzenegger or
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  Speaker 1: Sylvester Stallone. While putting together the franchises epic fight scenes,
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  Speaker 1: he poured over another far less likely genre, musicals. He
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  Speaker 1: tells Indie Wire, Everybody laughs when I say it, but
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  Speaker 1: I love musicals. Bob Fosse is a huge inspiration. Gene
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  Speaker 1: Kelly and singing in the Rain. We didn't reinvent action.
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  Speaker 1: We just spent all our money in time preparing Keana
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  Speaker 1: to be our Gene Kelly. The way we train people
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  Speaker 1: is very dance oriented. Most dunt teams train cast members
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  Speaker 1: to hit focus mits. Punching the heavy bags great, but
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  Speaker 1: if you can't remember your moves, it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 1: hard you can kick John Wick. Chapter four's in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.