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replicasmovieofficial“Keanu has a phenomenal work ethic. I knew his reputation for preparing for physical roles (such as the stunts in John Wick) but I was impressed at how that preparation extends even into the research for a role like this. He was constantly reading up on neuro-science and bringing new ideas for scenes and for the science underlying our story. Obviously, we can’t yet map the human mind, but there is a tremendous amount of existing research on the function of the brain and Keanu read a great deal about it,” says Nachmanoff.

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Remembering back on the hardest day of the shoot, Nachmanoff reflects that it had to be the stunt-heavy day in the rain at night. “We were shooting the scene down by the river where the family dies in the car crash. It was summertime, so we only had a limited number of hours of darkness. Plus, we were working with minors who had to be finished by midnight. The location was in the jungle, so everybody was covered in bug spray. The location was hard to access, even though we had built a road to move equipment to the river’s edge. It was so muddy, we had to transport actors to and from set on ATVS. Additionally, we had to do a stunt where we threw a van into the river. Keanu had to walk in the water carrying a child. At the same time, the scene called for rain so the SFX team was pumping water from the river into giant hoses, which were attached to rain heads atop a seventy-foot crane. Unbeknownst to them, there were tiny shellfish in the water that clogged the rain heads. So, the whole rig had to be lowered to the ground and they painstakingly opened and cleared out every rain head – a process that took two precious hours. Meanwhile a few of the actors were sick and one threw up that night. By the time the sun came up, everybody was ready to go home.” Reeves adds that he liked that moment; it was the pivotal point for his character to go on this journey, while going through “the real emotional highs in terms of trying to bring them back and trying to keep it a secret and how your safe space becomes this secret lab. I loved that journey.”



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Where is the line between AI and human consciousness? Is there a threshold for prolonging human life? Should there be? I found these underlying questions provocative, but most of all I liked the characters and the story and I was excited to tell it,” says Nachmanoff. Reeves adds to this: “Part of the film’s entertainment is that there is something to speak about.” #keanureeves

In theaters 1.11.19

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Mme, did it remind you of anything? I won't spoil the movie, just... it seemed sooo familiar ;)

And I will say this - parts of the film made me REALLY uncomfortable, parts caught me wrestling with morality and ethics, parts of it scared the crap out of me, and...yes, a gem!

I LOVE that it didn't thoroughly try to explain the VERY CREDIBLE science. Love that Keanu doesn't pander to his audience, doesn't spoon feed the big picture.

I've also learned a new word through this: "connectome." Not sure I love it as much as I love "haptic."