Screen Anarchy has posted Eric Ortiz Garcia’s interview with Matthew Ross for Siberia. When asked about the creative process of working with Keanu, he said the following.
With somebody like Keanu you know you’re getting an actor with a tremendous psychical presence and abilities. If you think about it, he’s perhaps the best stunt performing movie star of all time. It’s hard to come up with anyone who’s better than him.
But the reason I was attracted to this film was not to try to do another version of John Wick, because that would be a bad idea… the John Wick movies are great. I wanted to explore a more personal, darker, more intimate side of Keanu as a performer, because I’ve always seen that in him as an actor and I think it’s only been rarely explored and perhaps not so recently. I wanted to get under the skin a little bit more. He was just phenomenal, he’s a fearless actor.
You can read the entire interview to see what Ross had tosay on the particular humor of Katya’s initial sexual proposition to that crazy ritual at the party, some of the challenges of the filmand his vision for it.