New Delhi, March 19 (PTI): “…I’m amazed that I’ve lived this long,” Hollywood star Lance Reddick, who died early Friday in Los Angeles, told PTI earlier this month ahead of the release of his film “John Wick: Chapter 4”.
It was in reference to his role as hotel concierge Charon surviving the dramatic plot twists in the film series, which has plenty of bloodshed, violence and murder. But the words of the 60-year-old whose sudden death has stunned the American film industry and his colleagues echo, almost like a prophecy.
“It’s ironic for me to say after this film that I’m amazed that I’ve lived this long… It’s interesting because when I read the script for this last film I was still shocked at just how many people die. I think it’s gonna be a record,” Reddick told PTI in a virtual group interview, among his last media interactions.
Known for his appearance in major TV series like “The Wire”, “Fringe” and “Bosch”, Reddick was found dead at his Studio City home on Friday morning, American media reported.
He was busy promoting his newest film, “John Wick: Chapter 4”, the latest part in the Keanu Reeves-led franchise that releases next week, in the days before his death. The “John Wick” series centres around the eponymous assassin played by Keanu Reeves. Among the few characters who survived the carnage of every installment was Reddick’s Charon and his co-star Ian McShane, who plays Winston, a close friend of Wick and the owner of upscale New York hotel The Continental.
The action franchise started with 2014’s “John Wick”, about a retired assassin who returns to the world he had left behind to avenge the killing of a pup which was a final gift from his deceased wife.
In the subsequent movies — “John Wick: Chapter 2” (2017) and “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” (2019) — new characters have been routinely introduced and killed towards the end but Winston and Charon stay on.
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The USP of the franchise is the script and its balletic action sequences, which remain unparalleled in the American action genre, Reddick said.
“It all started with the first one. The first script was so tight for an action film. It was so character driven and there were so many interesting and compelling characters and the world that it created, which you didn’t really quite understand, but you understood enough to be really intrigued and wanting to find out more.
