Mumbai: Every great friendship has an even greater beginning. Such was the case for the amazing late Lance Reddick and veteran actor Ian McShane. From their very first interaction, as funny as it may be, their friendship seemed inevitable and it served to be a memorable one. Lance always had an interesting dynamic with Ian, much like Charon has with Winston, resulting in spectacular on-screen and off-screen chemistry between the two. With John Wick: Chapter 4 gearing up for its digital premiere on 23 June exclusively on Lionsgate Play, what better way to pay tribute to an icon than honoring him and his amazing friendships through his own words!

Talking about his friendship and working with Ian McShane, Lance Reddick said, “It's so funny because the first time I ever met Ian was in the scene at the end of John Wick: Chapter 2. So I've been a fan but I'd never met him before. As a matter of fact, when I first met Ian, I was being very weird because I was kind of tongue-tied and he was just - ‘Hey man how are you doing’,  and I was like - ‘Oh, uh, huh?’,  and he was looking at me like - ‘what's the matter with you, are you okay?’ (laughs) That's really when we became friends.”

Speaking about his onscreen chemistry with Ian, Lance said, “One of the things that's so interesting about that relationship is it feels so close from the first film, particularly Charon, it seems like he's calling the manager every other scene, but you don't really see them together until the very end of the second film. We didn't really have any scenes together until the third film, but the way the relationship plays out in the third film, it almost informs what happened before in the first two films, so you get a sense that they've been together for many, many, many years, probably even before the continental.”