Chad Stahelski, Director of John Wick

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Chad Stahelski directed one of Kevin and Steve's favorites: John Wick. Before that he was 2nd Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator/Fight Choreographer on many of your favorites such as The Matrix films, Captain America: Civil War, The Expendables films, the Hunger Games films and Beerfest, just to name a few. Chad, Kevin and Steve talk drinking in the edit room, stunt man scars, working with Marvel, how to make a fight scene, Keanu's above average skills, doubling Brandon Lee on The Crow, how he got the John Wick job, awesome directing advice, Gun-Fu, Beerfest, Ninja Assassin, doing a Rom Com with headshots, how fast Chad can kick Heffernan's ass, AND MORE! ENJOY THE CHEW!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of Chewing It. This is Kevin Heffernan on behalf of Steve Lemmy. Thanks for joining us. We have a great episode this week. We reconnected with the guy we worked with a long time ago. His name's Chad Stahelsky. And he is the director of the movie John Wick, which is a movie that Lemmy and I love. We work with Chad on Beer Fest. We worked with him on Duke's Hazard. and he was a stunt coordinator back then and a second
0:21.5	unit director and uh he worked in that capacity on a lot of your favorite movies the matrix uh
0:27.7	the hunger games movies the expendable movies just to name a few we talk about a lot of them on
0:32.4	this he was the double for keanu reeves and the matrix he's had a very long and amazing career
0:36.9	which culminated with directing john wick and now it was cool. We went a little field trip, and we met
0:42.3	up with him in the edit room for John Wick 2. John Wick 2's been shot. He's directed that one,
0:47.6	too, and he took some time out of his busy editing schedule to shoot the shit with us a little bit,
0:52.9	and we talked about all kinds of great things about directing and about John Wick and about past movies and
0:59.7	really, really interesting conversation. I think you're really going to like it. Before we get to
1:03.6	it, a few pieces of business. We have live shows coming up. The next one coming up, we're going to go
1:08.2	back to Albuquerque, New Mexico. July 14th, that's a Thursday night.
1:12.3	We're going to be at the Santa Ana Star Casino, just north of Albuquerque.
1:15.7	That's July 14th.
1:17.7	So come on out.
1:18.5	The tickets are available for that.
1:19.8	And then we're going to take a few weeks off to shoot a certain movie.
1:24.2	And then we are going to be on the east coast in September on September 9th we
1:29.4	will be at Foxwoods Theater in my home state of Connecticut the next night will be up in Boston
1:34.0	at September 10th Saturday night we will be at the Wilbur Theater in Boston all the tickets
1:39.1	are available if you go to Heffern and lemmy.com the links links are there. You can get tickets for all those shows.
1:44.6	And then it looks like the fall shipping up pretty nicely too. October, November, December.
1:48.7	We've got a bunch of dates. We're going to come back to Phoenix. We'll be back to Madison, Wisconsin,
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