The clock is ticking for the premiere of John Wick: Chapter 4, hitting theaters on March 24. Joining director Chad Stahelski’s now-iconic franchise is a cast of new friends and foes for Keanu Reeves’ fabled assassin to face off against, and Collider’s Steve Weintraub was able to sit down with two of them. In the movie, Shamier Anderson (Wynonna Earp) plays Tracker, a mysterious character who takes on the key role of dog handler for Chapter 4, and Hiroyuki Sanada reunites with his 47 Ronin co-star as Shimazu, Wick’s ally and a voice of reason.
Now presumed dead, John Wick joins up with old associates, the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), Winston (Ian McShane), and Charon (Lance Reddick), to take down the High Table. In his quest for freedom from this bloody underworld, Wick will have to fight his way through the world’s most skilled mercenaries to get to Bill Skarsgård’s Marquis de Gramont, the man tasked with righting the wrongs set in motion from the very beginning. In addition to Anderson, Sanada, and Skarsgård, Chapter 4 also introduces Wick fans to martial artist Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Rina Sawayama, Natalia Tena, and more.
During their interview, which you can watch in the player above or read below, Anderson and Sanada share the “magnitude” and challenges of joining a franchise like John Wick, and they discuss working with legends like Reeves and Fishburne, as well as meeting and surpassing fans’ expectations. Anderson, who takes the responsibility of the Wick universe’s dog “throughline,” talks about working with his four-legged co-star and Sanada speaks on the importance of his fight scene with Yen, and the fun he had on set.
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