Good Fortune: Keanu Reveals The Worst Job He Ever Had | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

From John Wick to Neo to Duke Caboom, Keanu Reeves has played countless iconic characters and spent much than 40 years arsenic a moving actor. There’s 1 non-acting job, though, that helium considers his “worst ever.”

Speaking with IGN up of the premiere of his caller movie Good Fortune, Reeves says that earlier helium became an histrion helium had a occupation that helium considered “terrible.”

“As a kid I (had) a paper way successful the winter,” Reeves says. “When it's not rather snowing, but raining– ohio man, that wasn't fun. You're 14. The Wednesday insubstantial was big. Then the play insubstantial you had to enactment together, it's raining, it's cold. You're young, you don't cognize what's going on. I was terrible. I was a unspeakable astatine it.”

In Good Fortune, Reeves plays Gabriel, a guardian angel who usually handles texting and driving cases and inserts himself into the beingness of Arj, a down-on-his-luck gig idiosyncratic played by Ansari. In the movie, a immense mix-up causes Gabriel to suffer his wings and person to enactment arsenic a dishwasher.

Reeves, who grew up successful Toronto, says that adjacent though the upwind made his insubstantial way brutal, it wasn’t each bad. “It was bully wealth for a kid, you cognize what I mean?” Reeves says. “You had to collect. So it was really a bully gig.”

As portion of IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition, Reeves and Good Fortune’s star, writer, and manager Aziz Ansari showed disconnected a brand-new clip from the movie. In the exclusive sneak peek, which you tin spot successful the subordinate above, Reeves and Ansari stock a country with Seth Rogen, with whom Ansari’s quality switches places owed to a mix-up by Reeves’s guardian angel Gabriel. Ansari says that Reeves’s erstwhile roles successful comedies helped him onshore the part.

“Whenever Keanu's sanction came up to play this part, I revisited his work,” Ansari says. “Specifically comedies similar Bill and Ted and Parenthood. He's precise comic erstwhile he's playing this benignant of innocence and naivete. Once Keanu came connected board, I deliberation unneurotic we truly recovered the quality and we dialed it up adjacent further.”

For his part, Reeves says Ansari’s imaginativeness of the movie is what made him motion on. “You truly request to person a originative vision,” Reeves says. “The manager besides has to deterioration a producorial vision. The temper connected the acceptable and the full accumulation (and) the code travel from the director. And helium (Ansari) created a truly fantastic originative situation and it was truly special.”

Good Fortune hits theaters October 17.