'Ballerina' director explains twisted ending : spoiler alert

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina’s director, Len Wiseman, has just now explained the twisted ending of the movie.

Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves star in the 2025 John Wick franchise.

While chatting with Entertainment Weekly, he candidly discussed the movie’s conclusion as just the starting point of the protagonist's struggles.

The Hollywood director began, "She's checked herself into the Continental, and her next move is really sorting out how her whole life has been a lie.”

"She now understands what her father was really doing for her, understands where she came from, and decided, 'I've made a choice. I've got the answers that I needed, but there are consequences in this world,'" Wiseman continued.

In the movie, despite the titular character, John Wick, advising her to leave the assassin life, Eva Macarro dived deeper into the world of contract killing until she took revenge on father’s murderer.

"She has to now deal with the consequences that John Wick laid out to her, that Winston [Ian McShane] laid out to her. It is a brutal world,” he explained, before adding. “You don't walk off into the sunset very easily. And so now Eve's next move is how to deal with the consequences of her actions in this [movie]."

Referring to the ending, where she kills the main antagonist Chancellor in the movie, Len Wiseman concluded, "The Chancellor relates to her at the ending that this cycle will continue: 'You kill me, you've cut the head of the snake, but the body still lives.'"

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina was released on June 6, 2025.