The actor was spotted walking with crutches and an ice pack wrapped to his left knee earlier this year Keanu Reeves has shared details of his brutal kneecap injury sustained while on set for Aziz Ansari’s forthcoming comedy Good Fortune . Reeves plays the lead in the forthcoming comedy film, also starring Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer. Plot details have been kept under wraps and a release date has not yet been announced.
He was spotted walking with crutches and an ice pack wrapped to his left knee earlier this year. Ansari later said that Reeves fractured his kneecap after tripping on a rug in his trailer. In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Reeves explained the whole story.
“I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we were in a cold plunge,” he recalled. “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? “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. 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, and I spiked it. And my patella – kneecap – cracked like a potato chip.” Though Reeves i.