{"id":10482,"date":"2023-03-16T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2023-03-16T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:03:25","slug":"rina-sawayama-john-wick-4-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=10482","title":{"rendered":"Rina Sawayama breaks down how she got the ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re going to get your big acting break, there are few better franchises to land in than John Wick<\/em><\/a> starring opposite Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n

Singer Rina Sawayama had this exact experience with her role as Akira in John Wick: Chapter 4<\/em><\/a> \u2014 and as she explains to Jimmy Fallon in the Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> clip above, it sort of came out of the blue.<\/p>\n

“I just randomly get a call from Chad Stahelski,” explains Sawayama. “He wants to speak with me. I’m like why the f*** does he want to speak with me? What does the director of John Wick<\/em> want to speak with me for?”<\/p>\n

It turns out Stahelski wanted to offer her the part after watching some of her music videos \u2014 many of which were directed by Sawayama and feature her acting.<\/p>\n

“If I’ve got this budget to do a music video, I’m also gonna make it my acting portfolio,” Sawayama says.<\/p>\n

“And it worked! Because he said I’ve been watching your videos, Keanu and I watched your ‘Bad Friend<\/a>‘ video and ‘XS<\/a>‘ video and were so impressed, because clearly you do stunts \u2014 because I did fighting in ‘Bad Friend’ \u2013 and clearly you can act.”<\/p>\n

John Wick: Chapter 4<\/em> is in theatres from March 24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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