Keanu Reeves plays troubled New York cop Scotty Galban in Exposed, a dark thriller about corruption and murder that goes to some deeply unpleasant places. The film hits UK screens and on demand February 26, so to coincide with the release, we talked to Reeves about the making of the movie, the troubles that went on behind-the-scenes, and the pair of horror films he shot straight after.
IGN: What was the appeal of Exposed?
Keanu Reeves: I really enjoyed… well enjoyed is a tough word because I think the story is tough… but thinking about the Galban character, I liked this kind of defeated person. This man who is down in the job, he’s separated from his kid, his wife, his partner dead. But as he tries to survive and figure out what’s happened, I really responded to the struggle of the script. I feel like it deals with the consequences of sexual violence, so I was drawn to these two stories. These two completely different circumstances. One the Ana de Armas character being the victim, and the revenge aspect of my partner’s death and how the two sides come together in this moment of becoming exposed and the tragedy of the consequences.
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IGN: What was the appeal of Exposed?
Keanu Reeves: I really enjoyed… well enjoyed is a tough word because I think the story is tough… but thinking about the Galban character, I liked this kind of defeated person. This man who is down in the job, he’s separated from his kid, his wife, his partner dead. But as he tries to survive and figure out what’s happened, I really responded to the struggle of the script. I feel like it deals with the consequences of sexual violence, so I was drawn to these two stories. These two completely different circumstances. One the Ana de Armas character being the victim, and the revenge aspect of my partner’s death and how the two sides come together in this moment of becoming exposed and the tragedy of the consequences.
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