When you talk about paying dues, nobody fits that bill more than Chad Stahelski. The man behind the John Wick series started in the “trenches,” as he calls it, performing stunts in down-and-dirty indies like Nemesis 2 or Brain Smasher…A Love Story. He went on to become Keanu Reeves’ stunt double in the Matrix series, and finally worked his way up into second unit on everything from The Hunger Games to Captain America: Civil War. For more than a decade, it was Stahelski’s job — whether as a stunt performer or second-unit director — to figure out how to craft an action sequence given to him by a director.
