The John Wick movies are chock-full of colorful characters who can cross swords (or guns, or fists, or any manner of weaponry) with Keanu Reeves’ titular assassin. Many of these characters are beloved enough to earn their own spinoff — from Ian McShane’s Winston Scott, whose younger self stars in the prequel series The Continental, to Donnie Yen’s blind assassin Caine, who will be the next to get his own feature film. But the first character to get their own spinoff movie had never appeared in a John Wick movie before — and that was the first big puzzle for Ballerina director Len Wiseman.
“I think the challenge was how to introduce the character from the beginning that we haven't seen,” Wiseman tells Inverse. “It helps to get to know even what her past was and how she went through training. That was the biggest difference of a character that was one of the only characters that, in the beginning of the film, does not start as an assassin.”
