Keanu Reeves’ Worst On-Set Injury Didn’t Come From John Wick — It Happened Filming Seth Rogen’s New Comedy Arriving This October

Keanu Reeves has spent a decade getting shot, stabbed, and thrown down stairs as John Wick, so you sort of expect some damage there. The surprise: his worst on-set injury lately didn’t come from a gunfight. It happened on Aziz Ansari’s comedy Good Fortune. And yeah, it was gnarly.

The comedy set mishap that almost sank Good Fortune

Reeves was a few weeks into filming Good Fortune with Ansari and Seth Rogen when a sauna-to-cold-plunge scene went sideways. He tripped on the floor and, in his words, wrecked a knee in a very specific, very painful way. He told The Hollywood Reporter:

"I snapped my kneecap vertically, like a potato chip. As the pain was coming up, I was like, 'Oh f*ck. This is not good. This is quite bad.' There was a lot of blood."

Chaos followed, understandably. Ansari, who wrote and directed the film, reportedly panicked — this movie is a big swing for him, and suddenly his angel literally fell. Reeves plays Gabriel, an actual guardian angel who steps in to help a struggling guy, and his sudden injury threatened to derail the shoot.

Instead, Reeves did the very Keanu thing: he stayed. He worked through recovery and kept filming, helping Ansari finish what has been a career lifeline after a rough few years. So yeah, the guy playing an angel pretty much behaved like one. Inside baseball note: the most painful injury in recent Keanu history came from a spa gag, not a stunt car flip.

Why 'Wick is Pain' isn’t just a catchy title

If you saw the 2025 documentary Wick is Pain, you know the toll has been real since John Wick kicked off in 2014. Shot over a decade, the doc shows that a lot of those limps, coughs, and dead-eyed trudges weren’t performance choices — they were the aftermath of actual bruises and strains. Stunt coordinators and doubles back this up on camera.

The title itself comes from John Wick: Chapter 3, when Reeves was working with a swollen knee, and director Chad Stahelski summed it up with three words: Wick is pain.

How the Wick saga has fared so far

• John Wick — Rotten Tomatoes: 86%, IMDb: 7.5, Worldwide gross: $86.1 million
• John Wick: Chapter 2 — Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, IMDb: 7.4, Worldwide gross: $174.3 million
• John Wick: Chapter 3 — Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, IMDb: 7.4, Worldwide gross: $327.7 million
• John Wick: Chapter 4 — Rotten Tomatoes: 94%, IMDb: 7.6, Worldwide gross: $447.3 million

The bottom line and what’s next

Should Reeves slow down? Probably. Will he? History says no. And that’s why the man keeps earning that action-legend badge — even when the injury comes from slipping between a sauna and a cold plunge.

Good Fortune hits theaters on October 17, 2025. In the meantime, all four John Wick movies are streaming on Peacock in the US.