John Wick 3 Director Says Halle Berry Trained Her Character’s Dogs

The director for John Wick 3: Parabellum has revealed that Halle Berry worked very closely with her character’s dogs for the film. Chad Stahelski told Collider that Berry worked with the dogs so that her character Sofia would be believable as the person who trained the animals to be attack dogs.

“We didn’t want a trainer hiding behind a set piece or a prop or something like that,” Stahelski told the outlet. “We wanted Halle—or, Sophia, our character—to be our on-screen dog trainer. So it wasn’t acting like these were her dogs, these actually were her dogs. When we cast Halle we had the big talk. Halle actually came, after all her fight rehearsals and gun rehearsals, she would go sit, and work, and play with the dogs for months on end so the dogs on-screen actually obey Halle. They’re not looking at a trainer. That was really fun.”

The film will release on May 17th and stars Keanu Reeves, Berry, Ian McShane, Lawrence Fishburne, Anelica Huston, Jason Mantzoukas, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tiger Hu Chen, Yayan Ruhian, Cecep Arif Rahman, Lance Reddick, Common, and Ruby Rose.