Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves costarred in 2015’s ‘Knock Knock’ before reuniting for the upcoming ‘John Wick’ spinoff ‘Ballerina,’ in theaters June 6
On Thursday, April 3, de Armas, 36, accepted CinemaCon’s Action Star of the Year award for her work in her upcoming movie From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, in theaters June 6. In her acceptance speech, de Armas called out her costar Reeves, 60, and admitted that she accidentally told him she had never seen The Matrix when they first met while working on the 2015 movie Knock Knock.
“We were sitting across from each other on the table, and I was really nervous as you are when you’re in front of Keanu Reeves,” de Armas recalled of that meeting, which took place in Santiago, Chile. “I couldn’t talk to him much because I was so self-conscious about my English and I was really struggling and really trying hard to follow the conversation. They were talking about his career, they were talking about The Matrix. And he looked up at me and asked me if I had seen it and I was like, ‘The Matrix? No.’ ”
“Everyone at the table was shocked. Someone came to me and told me in Spanish, ‘You haven’t seen La Matrix?’ And I was like ‘Oh, La Matrix? Yeah, I have seen that one,’ ” she added. “That will never not be embarrassing.”
