Keanu Reeves Shares Surreal Experience Acting With Martin Scorsese in Apple TV’s New Crime Film

Jonah Hill is back behind the camera as writer-director for Apple TV’s upcoming dark comedy Outcome. The movie enlists an all-star cast, led by Keanu Reeves, to tell a tricky story about a childhood star making amends. In these interviews, Collider’s Steve Weintraub talks with the stars about the true meaning behind the movie and what it was like sharing scenes with icons like Martin Scorsese.

Outcome, co-written by Ezra Woods, follows Reef Hawk (Reeves), a beloved Hollywood star, on a soul-searching journey when his career is threatened by a bizarre video of him that surfaces. Reef is being extorted by a mysterious blackmailer, and this video is enough to smear his image. This sets him off on a difficult mission to atone with anyone he may have wronged in hopes of tracking down whoever’s setting him up. The movie also stars Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Susan Lucci, Kaia Gerber, and Hill.

Don’t miss the full conversation with Reeves, Bomer, and Diaz, in the video above, where Reeves gives his interpretation of Outcome‘s message and discusses what it was like sharing a scene with the Academy Award-winning director Scorsese, who plays his childhood manager in the movie. We also speak with Cox, which you can find in the video below, who breaks down the questions that Outcome asks, discusses working alongside Reeves, shares an update on her fan-favorite Orange Is the New Black character, and opens up about her upcoming memoir, Transcendent, available this June.

Keanu Reeves Reveals the Real Meaning Behind Jonah Hill’s New Film

The trio also shares the autographs they’ve collected.

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COLLIDER: So I’ve been asking this of everyone. It’s like an ice breaker and how I’ve been starting interviews off. For each of you, have you ever asked for someone’s autograph?

KEANU REEVES: Yes.

CAMERON DIAZ: No.

MATT BOMER: Yeah, a baseball player.

Please share.

BOMER: I think I was maybe 13, and a friend of mine’s dad got invited to some pro-am celebrity golf tournament. Cecil Fielder was there, and I asked for his autograph.

DIAZ: Oh, yes. I did. I remember my aunt worked for the Raiders during their spring training, and I did go to that, and I got an autograph there when I was like nine or something like that.

BOMER: Nice.

REEVES: George Carlin.

DIAZ: Oh, yeah!

BOMER: Nice!

One of the things I’m wondering is, do you think the message of this movie is to stop looking at your phone so much? And if you’re an actor, really stop looking at your phone?

REEVES: No. I think it’s more about friendship. I think it’s more about, and Matt, you’ve been speaking about this, how to love yourself. I think it’s more about forgiving and forgiveness, friendship, understanding other people. I have a mother in the film, so that communication, or high school friends in the film. Martin Scorsese’s playing my manager from when I was a childhood actor. Jonah Hill’s my crisis lawyer. I’m being extorted for something that’s potentially destroying an image that I’ve done so much to protect so that I could continue to work.

So, I think it’s not about that. I think where it does interact with that is what we do sometimes. Maybe it’s an allegory for how we protect or try to put forward points of view of self, or who we are, and how we interact in the world sometimes.

Keanu Reeves Breaks Down His Tender Scene With Martin Scorsese

He also talks about working with Susan Lucci, who plays his mother in the movie.

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Keanu, I actually want to do a follow-up on that. What is it like doing scenes with Martin Scorsese and Susan Lucci, who are so opposite? Getting to do a scene with Martin Scorsese, I can’t imagine what that’s like.

REEVES: It’s really good. He’s a really good actor. The scene that we have together is very tender, and the tenderness in that was really lovely to pretend and to be a part of. He’s such a wonderful actor.

Matt, you worked with Susan Lucci. She’s amazing. Just a total pro. She’s playing my mom. She’s kind of neurotic. Maybe she’s not. I don’t know. But she’s got as much ambition and more than my character has. I was a young actor, she was a stage mom, but she started to have her own reality show. So, both of these performances, you feel their experience, their heft, their weight, their life weight.

Also, did you find more people wanted to be on set those days when you have Scorsese acting and Susan Lucci? Cameron and Matt, did you guys go to set when you weren’t working just to see them work?

BOMER: If that option were available, I would have taken it, absolutely.

DIAZ: I would have loved to.

I would have loved to stand on the side. But actually, for all three of you, I know you get offered scripts and different projects. What was it about this one that said, “O, yes, I need to do this?”

REEVES: For me, it was Jonah Hill, and the writing. Obviously what the film’s about and the characters, but I think also just that caliber of artistry and artist. That’s part of the yes, of like, “Okay, let’s go into this.”

DIAZ: Same.

BOMER: Yeah. All the incredible creatives involved in the script that had such a unique voice and had really profound things to say at the same time. I didn’t get offered. I came in and read with Jonah, and I knew just from the direction I had at that time that he was going to helm this ship in such a beautiful way.

Cameron Diaz Says Jonah Hill’s Improv Was So Good They Could Make Another Movie

She also shares why Outcome wouldn’t be possible without the LED wall.

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One of the things about Jonah is that he comes from the Judd Apatow school, where he’s improvising in the moment and calling out lines. For all three of you, what is it like working in that environment? Do you find it fun, or do you also find that you’re ruining takes from laughing?

BOMER: Both! Just say yes. Just say yes.

DIAZ: We can make a whole movie literally on the lines that Jonah was giving Matt, and just his fearlessness at taking them and just delivering them in this remarkable way.

BOOMER: You too, Cameron.

DIAZ: It’s so funny. We had a lot of fun. There’s a lot of movie that’s not in the movie, but that we all get to share in the experience of, which is really one of the cooler parts of also making movies. We get to see what the film becomes and what the audience is going to get to see, but there are so many things that we got to experience that it’s just a very rich experience.

One of the things you guys did on this was use the LED wall, because you had a lot of the magic hour light coming in when you’re in the beach house. I’m not sure how much you guys have worked with LED lighting before, and in that kind of environment. Did you enjoy that experience? What is it like, if you can each talk about it?

DIAZ: I mean, getting that magic hour light, if that was a practical set where we’re on the beach, we would have a 10-minute window to do our scene, and we’d have to come back multiple days to try to catch more of it if we could. You just can’t make a movie at magic hour, really, practically. So, having the LED, you could not tell. It was so incredible. It’s so realistic. It was pretty amazing.

Laverne Cox Says Years of Healing Helped Her Finally Write Her Memoir

In addition to working with Reeves and the message of Outcome, Cox discusses her upcoming memoir, Transcendent, and Orange Is the New Black.

In addition to talking with the Daytime Emmy Award-winning Cox about her role as Virginia Allen Green in Outcome, and getting to act opposite Reeves (who she admits she’s been “crushing on” since Dangerous Liasons), Cox also opened up about Transcendent, her memoir that’s set to release on June 9.

When asked about the years it took to finally get her story onto paper, about the need for emotional stability and perspective before publishing, Cox calls the experience “wild.” She explains how a meeting with her agents prompted the idea of a memoir, and says, “With the trauma resilience therapy I’ve been doing for the past 10 years now, I just felt like, ‘I think I can handle it.’ It just felt like, ‘I think I can go there.'” Cox goes on to open up about the process of revisiting the stories of her life in such a candid way, saying:

“I have to say that it was still really hard. I was ready, but it was insanely triggering. I haven’t done the audiobook yet. We’re doing that next month, so I’m nervous about that. I was so triggered. I was so bumped out of my zone going back, because also, for me, I’m trying to figure out what I wanted and needed and what was really going on with me. How do I talk about being a gender non-conforming kid growing up in Alabama, and knowing I was a girl, but not having the language for it? And how do I do that in a way that’s really authentic, not cliche, and true to my experience? So, that’s a lot of soul searching and a lot of grappling.

“And then, when there is abuse, and there is bullying, and there are all kinds of trauma, it’s a lot, but the blessing of it is, I got to a place in the rewrites where I was like, okay, I’m not that same person anymore. I’ve actually learned a lot. I’ve grown a lot, and I’m not just walking, going through my life blindly. I am observing, and I’m trying to be a better person. I’m trying to live better and make better decisions, and I have. I have. I’m a deeply imperfect person, but I’ve gotten older, and I’m not making the same mistakes I used to make.”

For more on Outcome, and where Cox believes her Orange Is the New Black character, Sophia Burset, is seven years later, check out the full conversation above. And don’t miss Outcome, available to stream worldwide on Apple TV+.

Release Date

April 10, 2026

Runtime

83 Minutes