King Lear. Jean Valjean. Eva Perón. These are among the roles that may outline an actor’s profession, however there’s just one that may outline an actor’s life: Shadow the Hedgehog. Within the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3, that position is being crammed by none aside from John Wick himself, Keanu Reeves, and Paramount has put out a featurette about how he will get himself able to fill these rocket-skates.
“For 50 years, Shadow’s been in a state of suspended animation,” intones Reeves, solemnly, “he is popping out of it looking for revenge.”
Jim Carrey—who performs Dr Robotnik—reckons Reeves is the proper man for the position. “Shadow’s received this brooding type of darkness that Keanu has mastered so brilliantly,” he says, of a personality who’s the evil twin of Sonic the Hedgehog with a gun.
It seems like Reeves virtually went methodology to get himself into the mindspace of gaming’s most Byronic hedgehog. It was an “inner journey,” says the actor, “to get to the anger and the emotion. It was intense.”
I’ve to say, we see just a few snippets of Reeves’ efficiency within the video, and he certain seems like Keanu Reeves. You possibly can inform me these had been clips left on CD Projekt Purple’s flooring from his stint as Johnny Silverhand and I might completely imagine it. If Reeves needed to go on a voyage to the centre of the self, or climb to the highest of a mountain to seek the advice of the sages as a way to correctly inhabit the persona of Evil Sonic, I dunno that I might inform. I say this as a Keanu-liker, and somebody who thinks he will get unfairly dinged for his appearing.
You possibly can inform he is truly an excellent actor as a result of he is in a position to say “Sonic 3 and enjoying Shadow, it is actually on one other stage” totally with out smirking. And look, I perceive: these actors are selling a film. They don’t seem to be gonna come out and say they’re solely there as a result of they received supplied an infinite paycheque—I, too, would have voiced Shadow the Hedgehog if Sega supplied me more cash than god has—however it’s barely surreal to observe folks like Idris Elba and Keanu Reeves sit down and speak up the dramatic bona fides of the Sonic film.
Anyway, it seems like Reeves actually received into it, so look out for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to hit cinemas this December 20, the place it is going to make 400 trillion {dollars}.
