“I would love to be John Constantine again,” he told Colbert.

But unfortunately, that’s not as easy as stating the fact.

“I’ve tried,” he admitted to the collectively sad reaction of the studio audience.

Constantine

Keanu Reeves as John Constantine.David James/Warner Bros.

“I would love to.”

Nothing was ever confirmed by Warner Bros., which owns the screen rights to DC properties likeConstantine, however.

“We wanted to make… a hard-R sequel.

I think we’d probably make it tomorrow.

During his interview, Reeves also promoted his comic bookBRZRKR, the series he conceived and wrote with BOOM!

Studios, which debuted earlier this year.

And when Colbert brought up a meta moment referenced in the pages of Vol.

“I’m just eating a sandwich!”

he told Colbert, when he asked what was going through his head at the time of the photo.

“I was thinking.

I had some stuff going on.

I was hungry.”

“I think it’s kind of meta,” he told Colbert.

“But that’s life and art, right?”

Watch the interview above.

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