Primera Hora has posted their interview with Keanu Reeves along with 2 photos. You can login to their site via a social media account. The article is in Spanish and translates well. Highlights are below.
- Since arriving in Puerto Rico two months ago, Keanu Reeves has worked non stop.
- He arrived in early August and was focused on eery detail of Replicas, including producing the film with James Dodson and Luis A. Riefkohl.
- They taged along on the set of Replicas on the 33rd day of filming. Keanu, other cast members and a team of technicians were filming a climatic scene (the accident?).
- Reeves said, He’s a good guy, good husband, good father and scientist. He works to transfer the biological mind to a synthetic brain. His family dies and he tries to being them back to life. His name is WIlliam but wwe call him Will. He is very determined and loves his family very much. Hope it’s a movie that people relate to because it questions what would you do?”
- Outside where the movie was filmed, they made a pond where the special effects experts filmed the scene where the Foster family’s car falls into the river while Reeves and Alice Ever were inside. They did not use stunt doubles for the scene.
- They brought up the similarity in the film to the loss of Jennifer Symes back in April 2001 in a car accident.
- Reeves spent two years trying to film the story which was written by Stephen Hamel and Chad St. John.
- Keanu said, “The idea was Stephen Hamel, who is my co-producer. We have developed projects together in the past and he came up with this idea of what would happen if your family dies. From that idea he met with writer Chad St. John and began to work on the script with him.”
- The entire film was filmed on the island. Keanu said, “The people were kind and those who worked on the film were very talented. It was cool to fee their enthusiasm and have their support in making the film. I developed the film and it took me two years to get it made so it’s a very personal project for me. I was looking for a place to make the film that had timely tax credits. I am always looking for financial support for movies to get them made.”
- Keanu also said, “One of the people involved with the project had worked with the tax credits of Puerto Rico. And it was cool, because it really worked to set the film here since the film is set in Palm Beach. For us filmmakers that is very organic. It was a great opportunity to film here and I hope it has been a good experience for the people who worked on it.”
- About Puerto Rico, he said, ” I did not get to see as much of Puerto Rico as I would have liked. When you work, you are so focused, but I was able to go to Culebra. San Juan is the biggest island I’ve been too. Other cast mates have gone to Rincon, Taken rides planes, went to the bioluminescent bay, Yunque, and the kids did zip line. Other companions dived, fished. So it’s definitely a place I’d go back to visit.”
- Keanu said the following about working in PR again, ‘If someone asks me how to make a film in Puerto Rico I would say that’s great. In Puerto Rico, there is a very strong spirit that is ‘work hard, play hard’.”
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