Variety has posted their interview with Bianca Mitchell-Avilia. She details how she approached Keanu Reeves to help her with her projection of making a documentary on women dominating the chess world. The documentary, Madwomen’s Game, will premiere at the Miami Film Festival on April 16. A few quotes from the article are below.
“I know that he is very busy and may not have time to participate in something so small, but I really wanted to take a chance,” she wrote in the message, sent in 2021. The next morning, to her surprise, she saw a response from Reeves sitting in her inbox.
“I was struck by the tone, by the ambition, by the vision of it [in] early days,” Reeves tells Variety about the young filmmaker’s note.
“In this case, my description of [being an] executive producer was being attached to the project, and whatever value other people thought that that could bring to the project and get it made,” says Reeves.