Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves photographed by Paola Kudacki on August 11th, 2025 in New York City. Ansari styling by Mobolaji Dawodu, Isaia polo. Reeves styling by Jeanne Yang, Frame shirt, tee. Rogen styling by Wendi and Nicole, Brunello Cucinelli suit, shirt. Photographed by Paola Kudacki; Reeves grooming: Toni Coburn; Rogen Grooming: Kumi Craig; Ansari Grooming: Rheanne White; Fashion Assistant: Elliott Pearson Several weeks into filming Good Fortune - a low-key comedy written by, directed by and starring Aziz Ansari - Keanu Reeves, legendary action star of the Matrix and John Wick movies, threw the production into complete chaos. In the film, Reeves plays a bumbling, low-ranking angel who swaps the lives of Ansari, a down-on-his-luck L.A. gig worker, and Seth Rogen, a wealthy tech exec living the good life in the Hollywood Hills. The three actors were filming a lighthearted scene, shuffling excitedly between a hot sauna and cold plunge, when Reeves' foot caught on some flooring. Related Stories Movies Seth Rogen's Surprise Appearance at Venice Film Festival Confirmed as Research for 'The Studio' Movies 'The Tale of Silyan' Review: Folktale Meets Nonfiction in a Captivating Look at a Struggling Farmer and the Injured Stork He Rescues Photographed by Paola Kudacki "My knee went," Reeves, 60, recounts on a recent Sunday morning, seated beside his two Good Fortune co-stars at the colorful Whitby Hotel in midtown Manhattan. (He's currently in town rehearsing with his Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure co-star Alex Winter for a Broadway production of Waiting for Godot.) "I snapped my kneecap vertically, like a potato chip. As the pain was coming up, I was like, 'Oh fuck. This is not good. This is quite bad.' There was a lot of blood." Ansari took in the unfolding nightmare and began to panic. Good Fortune was his plan B. Plan A had been a very different film, a passion project about aging and death called Being Mortal, which was shuttered three weeks into production after its star, Bill Murray, was found by Searchlight Pictures to have engaged in "inappropriate behavior" with a female assistant, a stroke of bad luck that painfully echoed Ansari's own brush with #MeToo allegations some years prior. In any case, Ansari had no plan C. "It still feels like something from The Studio," he says, referring to Rogen's hit Apple TV+ comedy - a show fueled by behind-the-scenes Hollywood mayhem. On cue, Rogen, 43, slips into his Studio character, Matt Remick, frazzled head of Continental Studios: "Keanu broke his kneecap! He can't walk! What can he do? Can we prop him up? Can we hang him from wires? We'll marionette him in the scene!" Then the famous Seth Rogen laugh: "Heh heh heh heh heh!" Ansari also laughs about it - now. "Keanu could have easily been like, 'Hey man, I'm so sorry. I'm out,' " he says. Raised on Reeves' films like Point Break, Speed and The Matrix, his star was so much more than just another actor - he was a screen god and, as far as Ansari was concerned, a major casting coup. Minus Reeves, his dreams of a career as a movie auteur were spiraling down the drain once more. But Reeves pushed through the pain to film whatever they could on schedule, then stuck around for reshoots once the cast came off. The results of all that literal blood, sweat and tears will finally be unveiled Sept. 6, when the film premieres at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, just weeks before opening wide Oct. 17 throughout the U.S. For Ansari, the stakes for his little angel movie are of biblical proportions. A gifted observational stand-up and sketch comedian who found stardom playing the smarmy Tom Haverford on NBC's Parks and Recreation, it's been a full decade since the launch of his Netflix show, Masters of None, a television groundbreaker that ushered in a new era of diverse storytelling, cracking the doors open for a wave of lauded series like Insecure, Atlanta and Ramy. It's been nearly eight years since an anonymous woman accused him of unwanted sexual aggression while on a date, kicking up a fierce debate about the growing power of the #MeToo movement, a devastating blow to Ansari's sterling image as comedy's "woke bae," as one website dubbed him in 2016. And it's been three years since the shock of Searchlight Pictures pulling the plug on Being Mortal, the project that was supposed to launch his feature film directing career. So, yes, how audiences receive Good Fortune means a great deal to Ansari. It means everything. Rogen wears a Brunello Cucinelli suit, shirt, belt. Ansari wears an Isaia polo; Brunello Cucinelli pants; his own Cartier watch, his own ring, necklace. Reeves wears a Frame shirt, tee; Brunello Cucinelli pants. Photographed by Paola Kudacki *** Two mornings later, Ansari occupies a corner table on the terrace of another swanky hotel in lower Manhattan - this one to remain nameless, as it's his favored pied-à-terre. He has, since 2019, headquartered himself in London, where he lives