The actor playing the pup’s killer, Omer Barnea, had a hard time, too.
“The whole time you’re thinking, ‘Oh my God, how sad,’” says Krafsky. Working with a dog whose character gets brutally killed made everyone on set emotional. In total, Krafsky and Andy were on set for close to three weeks, even though the dog’s character in the movie - a female pup named Daisy - is knocked off by Russian mobsters about 20 minutes into the film. It takes patience, positive reinforcement and a lot of treats,” she explains.ĭuring the movie, Krafsky would stand right next to the camera, giving Andy his cues and monitoring his behavior.įor some scenes, such as when Russian mobsters break in to Wick’s home, a second trainer would crouch behind a couch, calling to Andy so that the dog knew where to go. “With puppies, it requires more time and insight to acquire the proper on-screen behavior because they’re so young. Some are too interested in playing, but Andy kept following me around,” says Krafsky. “When I walk into a room of puppies, I look for the ones that come to me. “All of those things have to be wrapped up in to one animal.”Īfter meeting over two dozen beagle puppies, she purchased Andy - a male, less than 2 months old, whose parents were hunting dogs - from a breeder in upstate New York. “The dog had to be outgoing, enjoy being around people and, of course, be beautiful,” she says. It took her and her team about two weeks to find just the right puppy for the part. They’re not overly large or small, they’re just a cuddly breed with those big sad eyes,” says Krafsky. “There’s this thing about them, they’re just cute. The filmmakers knew from the get-go that they wanted a beagle. Kim Krafsky, a trainer from Animal Actors International, was tasked with the job of finding just the right dog for the role. Andy The Dog attends the “John Wick” New York Premiere. Reeves plays the eponymous star of the film, a retired hit man who returns to a life of crime and goes on a murderous rampage after Russian mobsters cruelly kill his pup. The dude-licious actor pairs up with the silver screen newbie for the action flick “John Wick,” out Friday. Only this time, Reeves’ co-star isn’t some leggy blonde, but an 8-week-old beagle pup named Andy. Reeves enjoyed a smattering of kisses from the cutie before both headed to the kitchen for breakfast. Still, just because the John Wick franchise is nearly perfect does not mean it’s beyond reproach, as the always-excellent Honest Trailers recently set their sites on Chapter 2 and Chapter 3: Parabellum.Last fall, on the set of “John Wick,” Keanu Reeves lazily lay in bed, curled up with his co-star as they awoke to their 6 a.m. And back then, I remember wondering to myself: “Who’s asking for an assassin film from a no-name director and a washed-up Keanu Reeves?” Oh, how hilariously wrong I was.įast-forward six years and a case can be made that John Wick is the best pound-for-pound action franchise of the 2000s thus far, as every movie seems to be better than the last. While I wasn’t a plugged into the entertainment industry as I am now, I still (foolishly) believed I had a solid grasp of what would and would not be a successful movie. The first John Wick film came out back in 2014, which was my senior year of college down at Rutgers University in good ole New Brunswick, New Jersey. Every time I write about John Wick, I make sure to point out how offensively wrong I was about the franchise’s prospects.
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