Keanu's Agent: "In this movie you play a character named 'John'…"
Keanu, in wooden Keanu delivery: "I'm in."
For the record, like 90% of reddit, I love Keanu.
He has been in around 100 various media projects. Which means he has played someone named "John" in roughly 10% of his roles.
Not in chronological order, but in order of what I think is fame or notoriety
- John Wick, John Wick (2014) and all of its sequels. He keeled three people with a pyencil.
- Johnny Utah, Point Break (1991) fires gun into air screaming
- Jack Traven, Speed (1994) It was The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.
- Jonathan Harker, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) If Gary Oldman was the ham, he was the charcuterie board it was served on.
- John Constantine, Constantine (2003) The movie everybody thinks is underrated and has had a sequel in development hell for years.
- Johnny Silverhand, Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) He hates Corpo scum.
- Johnny Mnemonic, Johnny Mnemonic (1995) A remarkable foreshadowing of Cyberpunk 2077, but this time the chip-that-will-wipe-your-mind is in his brain
- Don John, Much Ado About Nothing (1993) People made fun of him, but kudos to him for trying something new.
- Jjaks Clayton, Feeling Minnesota (1996) It counts. For those curious, his parents made a typo on his birth certificate. Odd little movie, but I found it entertaining.
- John Wall, Generation Um… (2012) I had never heard of this one.
- Cherry on the sundae. In one of his first major (TV) film roles, he played Jack-in-the-Box, Babes in Toyland (1986)
Honorable Mention: He was attached to a TV series adaptation of the John Rain books– never heard of it and the TV series has never panned out.
He's also played characters with J-names in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Julian Glitche)– he was in that one?!?, Something's Got to Give (Julian Mercer), an episode of Trying Times (Joey)– never heard, an episode of The Tracy Ullman Show (Jesse Walker)– of Simpsons fame, and apparently, a guy called Jim in a Paula Abdul music video.
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