Keanu Reeves Thanks to his extensive training, he knows his way around the martial arts mat. matrix and john wick Now, he's paying homage to an innovator in the martial arts world.
Deadline reports on Reeves and Oscar-winning director fisher stevens We are planning to co-produce a documentary about Benny “The Jet” Urquidezhe is credited with introducing mixed martial arts to the world.
Urquidez, now 71, is a world champion in karate and kickboxing who has turned to training actors and coordinating fight scenes for movies.
By the way, John Cusack Urquidez was one of his students and co-starred with him in a famous scene in the 1997 hit. Gross point blank. But Urquidez's client list reads like a Hollywood roster. Jackie Chan Till late Patrick Swayze to Michelle Pfeiffer trained with him throughout his long career.
Emmy-nominated sports documentary editor and filmmaker Jennifer Tiexiera I'm directing a documentary. She told the industry: “Benny's martial arts career was born out of struggles with identity, poverty, and race, but he didn't let those things define him. It created a story about sexuality and how it evolved into a story about deeper meaning.”
Keanu recently starred in and produced another documentary. Braun: The impossible F1 story” is now available on Hulu.
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