NORMAN REEDUS HAS NO PROBLEM WITH A WOMAN LEAD IN 'BALLERINA'

In Indian cinema, especially Bollywood, male superstars often hesitate to share space with women in action films. Did you feel a sense of pride that Hollywood seems more inclusive in that regard?

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I don't have any problem sharing anything with women. I like women.

What about Ballerina excited you?

I'm a big fan of the John Wick movies already. I've seen them all, like 1,000 times. I like the tone of them. I like the action sequences, I like the stories, I like the style, I like all of it. Getting to be in a John Wick movie is kind of a bucket list thing for me. I'm a big fan of Keanu. I like everything about them. I like stories of heroes who don't know they're heroes and they are just trying to get through it. I've always been a fan of movies like that.

What was it like working with Ana De Armas in Ballerina?

I thought Ana brought her own flavour to the movie. I was a big fan of her in the movie Blonde, I had just seen it, and I thought she was really fearless as an actor in that movie, and I knew that she would bring that to the John Wick franchise. And I'm a big fan of Len's. I've worked with him before, so, yeah, it was kind of a no-brainer for me to do this.

I loved the action in Ballerina. It looked so perfectly synchronised, almost like a musical...

Yeah, it actually is sort of a musical because all the action had to be perfectly synchronised because everything you do is a cue for someone else. So like, when I'm leaning against the wall and I'm yelling to my little girl, 'Baby, get down,' that's a cue for someone else to fire and two people to start fighting and pieces of walls to start exploding around my head. Like everything's sort of a very down-to-the-moment, timed ballet. No pun intended.

I found it fascinating that Ballerina showed a woman taking hits too. Was it different doing action with someone who's smaller in stature — even if she's strong?