Keanu Reeves plays an inept guardian angel for a star-studded cast in new comedy, ‘Good Fortune’

A new movie hits theaters this week and just like Freaky Friday it s about swapping lives But these guys aren t family they re strangers Throw a guardian angel into the mix and you ve got the concept behind Good Fortune The film features a star-packed cast with Keanu Reeves Seth Rogen Keke Palmer and Aziz Ansari Keanu Reeves is winging it in Good Fortune as a guardian angel And we say he s winging it because when he meddles in the lives of a struggling temp worker and a wealthy venture capitalist things go sideways Seth Rogen is the capitalist and Aziz Ansari plays the temp worker Aziz Ansari I love to collaborate with the actors and we have such an amazing cast Aziz also got to boss the cast around because he wrote and directed the film Keanu Reeves There would be times when we would be doing a scene and Aziz would just yell OK now say okay now say how about this line Try this line so there s a great formalization to the script and a wonderful improvisational climate One thing not scripted Keanu Reeves Comedy is hard and that there s danger everywhere Aziz Ansari It feels like something out of Seth s show The Studio It was just like Hey so Keanu went down It s like Wait what do you mean Where They re like He tripped tripped on a rug in his dressing room I was like What And then he comes down and his knee s bleeding and Keanu was like Let s just shoot let s shoot let s shoot ' Keanu s not only fixing lives in the movie he learns how to have a little fun himself Since Good Fortune is all about guardian angels guys who would you want to be your guardian angel Keanu Reeves I m gonna go with Laurence Fishburne He s been a guardian angel for me for numerous years Aziz Ansari I m going to go with one of my Parks and Rec s castmates maybe Amy Poehler or Aubrey Plaza