Somewhere out there, there’s footage of comedian Roy Wood Jr. trying to goad action movie star Keanu Reeves into saying a racial slur, thanks to a cut scene from Outcome, the new dark comedy that began streaming on Apple TV+ today.
“There’s a scene where I’m trying to trip him up into saying the N-word. None of that was scripted,” Wood said with a laugh, in a Zoom interview with Decider. “In terms of actually making him slip up and say it—he’s impervious.”
Directed by Jonah Hill, who also co-wrote the script with Ezra Woods, Outcome stars Reeves as an A-list movie star and former drug addict named Reef Hawk, who embarks on an apology tour of everyone in his life that he’s hurt. But he’s not doing it out of the goodness of his heart—he’s doing it because his sleazy crisis lawyer (played by Hill with a shaved head
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