Keanu Reeves makes appeal for moviemaker in Netflix’s swindling case

Keanu Reeves recently made a plea for a moviemaker Carl Rinsch, who was convicting of swindling $11 million from Netflix to produce a television series for personal use.

The Canadian actor, who worked with Carl on 2013 movie 47 Ronin, wrote a letter to the Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York City on May 1, saying, “I am writing in support of Carl in connection with his upcoming sentencing. I do not know the details of this case.”

“But based upon what I do know about Carl, I did want to take the opportunity to write on his behalf, in the hope that his sentence might be tempered with measures of leniency and mercy as well as justice,” wrote the Matrix actor in the court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

Interestingly, Keanu noted that Carl “once showed him an unfinished version of White Horse, the show that he was contracted by Netflix to create and never actually produced in full”.

John Wick actor further said that Carl “is an exceptional artist, and White Horse, in the form in which I saw it, was a superb and visionary work of art, although unfinished”.

“I am, of course, not a therapist or psychologist. I write instead as an artistic peer of Carl's, and as a friend. He can self-sabotage by amplifying the scale, scope and landscape of what had been negotiated, accordingly placing himself and his counterparties at odds,” explained the 61-year-old.

Meanwhile, in the end, Keanu asked for “leniency” toward Carl alongside “the punishment he will live with”.

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