Keanu Reeves has shared ugly particulars in regards to the damage he suffered on the set of his forthcoming film, Good Fortune.

Directed by and starring comic and actor Aziz Ansari, the brand new comedy, led by Reeves, additionally options Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer. The plot of the movie is being saved tightly underneath wraps and a launch date has not but been introduced.

Reeves, 59, was photographed strolling with crutches and an ice pack wrapped to his left knee earlier this yr. Ansari later revealed that the John Wick star had fractured his kneecap after tripping on a rug in his film trailer.

Throughout a current look on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, Reeves elaborated on the story.

“I used to be filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we had been in a chilly plunge,” he recalled. “I used to be loving it, I used to be standing there, and we end the scene, and you already know while you’re chilly and also you’re [shuffling]? I had a washing swimsuit and a towel, and you place it over your head and also you do the chilly shuffle?”

The Matrix actor continued: “I’m doing the chilly shuffle on this room that had protecting carpets down after which, simply right here, there was like slightly pocket, and my foot bought caught within the pocket within the shuffle, after which I went [down], however [my knee] didn’t comply with.

“After which, in gradual movement, I went falling. My arms got here out, however then my knee failed as a result of it’s bought some stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella – kneecap – cracked like a potato chip,” he added, inflicting the host and viewers to groan.

Whereas Reeves admitted he initially thought he was positive, he stated he knew one thing was flawed when “my knee was blowing up.” “Comedy’s exhausting, man,” he quipped.

When requested by Colbert whether or not cracking his kneecap was the worst factor that’s ever occurred to him, Reeves responded: “No, the two-level fusion of my backbone was.”

Recalling the process, which was accomplished simply earlier than he started coaching for The Matrix, Reeves remembered: “I used to be like dropping feeling, and I used to be form of beginning to fall within the bathe, and I went to see this physician, and he was like, ‘We have to do surgical procedure proper now.’”

He stated that his spinal wire was squeezed between parts of his spinal discs that had been splintered and compressed.

Requested how he had damage himself, Reeves stated: “So many issues, motorbike accidents, racquetball.”

Reeves shared that whereas filming The Matrix, he needed to put on a contraption round his neck to make sure his backbone might fuse correctly, which required manufacturing to reschedule his struggle scenes.

“However all’s properly that ends properly,” he concluded.