Keanu Reeves is without doubt a fan favorite in the Hollywood movie industry.
The 58-year-old has enjoyed a long and successful acting career, featuring in blockbusters such as The Matrix and, more recently, as the protagonist in the highly acclaimed John Wick saga.
His high profile roles in a long list of movies have amassed him a fortune over the years.
John Wick 4 will add to Reeves’ riches as the sum he earns per word in the movie has recently been revealed.
Each instalment of the industry’s most famous hitman has outperformed its previous release in its box office earnings, seeing Keanu Reeves take home a significant pay packet.
The fortune Reeves has earned with each word in John Wick 4
Keanu Reeve’s character, John Wick, is characteristically sparing with his words and does his talking through his physical resilience and combat skills.
Reeves himself acknowledged that he had negotiated for the scripts to limit as much as possible the need for his character to express his feelings with words and to instead allow his expressions and actions to convey the narrative.
In the latest instalment of the saga, Reeves took home a pay check in the region of 15 million dollars.
According to Fandomwire, his character utters only 380 words throughout the 169 minutes of the film, meaning that each word earned him around 40,000 dollars.
John Wick 4 has become the second highest grossing film of the entire saga, accumulating more than 240 million dollars worldwide.
The series’ first movie, released in 2014, secured 86 million dollars in the box office, while the second and the third managed 171 and 327 million dollars respectively.