A closer look
Keanu Reeves was so desperate to get his canine co-star to jump on his face during the morning routine sequence in the original John Wick that the crew literally had to smear bacon grease all over the actor's beard; the terrifyingly lethal assassin who single-handedly murders half the Russian mob over a puppy could only command his own dog's affection through the strategic application of breakfast meat, which ruins the emotional gravitas of the brooding widower's tragic backstory when you realize the adorable beagle was just frantically trying to eat pork fat off the chin of a Hollywood A-lister, though this greasy cinematic trick launched a billion-dollar action franchise, proving that sometimes the key to building a compelling cinematic universe is just making your incredibly famous lead actor smell exactly like a frying pan
