Oh shoot! Keanu actually did that stunt himself? Damn the director for cutting it like he did. Might as well have been a stunt mant. It’s like that scene in “Papillon”, where Steve McQueen actually dove off the cliff himself toward the end. -And the director misses the golden opportunity to use several cameras to catch the actor close up as well as showing the dive. Frank J. Schaffner just used a typical 70s crappy zoom-out, basically showing a dot diving off a cliff. Sigh… Why, why, why…

Yup! Keanu did it himself. I think the director, Jan de Bont, wanted a stunt man to do it, but Keanu insisted on doing it himself. Can’t remember exactly for sure but you know they were all relieved when he made it and didn’t faceplant on the freeway.

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