Aziz Ansari reveals why Keanu Reeves was hobbling on crutches while filming ‘Good Fortune’

That’s one way to cut a rug.

Aziz Ansari revealed that his “Good Fortune” co-star Keanu Reeves was hobbling on crutches in January because he tripped on a rug in his trailer.

Ansari, 41, elaborated on Reeves’ fractured kneecap injury at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

“About, I don’t know, 15 days into shooting with me, I was like, ‘Hey, just go chill in your dressing room for 15 minutes.’ And he tripped on a rug,” said Ansari, who co-wrote and co-directed the movie with Reeves.

“He’s like, ‘Aah, my knee.”

Ansari said that Reeves, 59, didn’t let his injury get in the way of filming, however.

“He still filmed everything except some scenes where we needed him to do salsa dancing, which we need to pick up.

“He was like, ‘I’ll do it!’ We’re like, ‘Keanu, calm down. We’ll do the salsa dancing once your knee’s healed.’”

Ansari said that Reeves did not “go to the hospital or anything” after injuring his kneecap.

“He’s done those ‘Wick’ movies, all the ‘Matrix ‘ stuff. In ‘Speed,’ he actually did attempt to do the jump from the car to the bus,” Ansari said. “It wasn’t the take they used, but he did do it.”

Ansari and Reeves star in “Good Fortune” along with Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer.

Reeves plays an angel in the movie.

Ansari, meanwhile, plays a “down-on-his-luck guy who is working myriad jobs,” according to Deadline. When his rich friend (Rogen) calls him to do odd jobs in his Hollywood Hills home — including installing a disco floor and fixing the pool heater — Reeves’ valley angel intervenes and swaps Rogen’s situation with Ansari’s, who then inherits his friend’s life.

“He actually is an angel,” Ansari said of Reeves. “This is the first time he’s gotten to play his true form.”

Filming on “Good Fortune” was scheduled to begin last May but was delayed by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike.

Ansari said he was inspired to make “Good Fortune” because he “had been doing some more dramatic work recently and I really wanted to make a comedy and I wanted it to be in theaters,” according to Deadline.

“People do want to come to the theater and laugh together,” he added. “I think we can do it. I don’t think we can say this genre doesn’t work.”