John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019 Movie)
If this whole acting thing doesn’t work out for Halle Berry then the Oscar-winner can always earn a crust training dogs. That’s one of the takeaways from a behind-the-scenes clip featured on the digital release of John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum which finds the actress working with the hounds playing the pair of lethal Belgian Malinois owned by her character, Sofia.
“It was a real relationship that was built, and there were five of them,” says Berry in the clip. “I could command them just like the trainers could command them. So, I would spend four days a week out there with the dogs — two, three hours a day and I would just go through the drills with them, just like the trailers. As the trainers were learning who they were, I was learning who they were. They’re ferocious-looking, and they’re doing some amazing stunts, but they’re also really sweet, so I get a certain amount of time to just love on them and play with them and then I have another set of time when I work with training them.”
“Halle spent over eight months, on and off, working with the trainers,” says Keanu Reeves, who plays the titular hitman in the action threequel, “to a point where, when I was training with her, the trainer said to me, ‘They treat her like a trainer.”
The sharply-dressed hitman ended 2017’s John Wick: Chapter 2 with a $14 million contract out on his life — which is exactly how John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum begins. “The third chapter is literally connected to 2 and starts with John Wick on the run,” Reeves told EW last year. “It goes crazy from there.”
Some of that craziness involves Berry’s Sofia, a new to-the-franchise character Wick meets in the Middle East. “She has a past with John,” said Reeves. “I end up going to find her to see if she can help me.”
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum is now available to buy on digital and will be released on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD, Sept. 10.
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Who is the pitbull in John Wick 3?
This was definitely the case while filming the third John Wick in New York, when the animal actor Cha Cha who plays Wick’s pitbull, picked a fight with a horse.
Did Halle Berry keep the dogs?
That meant that in addition to hours of stunt and fight training — which included some cracked ribs during filming — Berry not only worked with the dogs but eventually became one of their primary trainers.
What breed of dog is used in John Wick 3?
Often, when there’s a popular movie that involves a dog as the main character – or even a side character – that dog breed spikes in popularity. People are so moved by the portrayal of the breed that they decide they must have one for themselves.
After seeing the 2014 movie John Wick and its subsequent sequels, you probably noticed that the entire series starts with one terrible act:
If you’ve been wondering about the breed of John Wick’s dogs in the films, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll talk about John Wick, his first dog, and the other dogs he has throughout the movie franchise.
John Wick, played by actor Keanu Reeves, grew up an orphan in Belarus. The Russian Mafia took him at a young age, raising him as a trained assassin and hitman.
None of this, however, is featured in the film. In fact, by the time we meet Wick, he has been retired for five years and is happily married, living an everyday life.
In the first John Wick movie, Wick has a Beagle puppy. The puppy, named Daisy, was a gift from Wick’s wife. The significance of the puppy is that she was a gift from Wick’s late wife, who died of leukemia.
At the end of the first John Wick movie, we see Wick adopt a Pitbull from a shelter. Or rather, take the dog from the shelter.
During this scene, Wick is hurt from fighting off bad guys. He stumbles into the shelter and uses the supplies there to treat himself. While he’s there, he notices the Pitbull puppy and decides to take him.