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]]>Now, 20 years after the first Matrix movie was released, Smith finally decided to reveal the story about why he turned down the role. According to the Men in Black star, he didn’t understand the vision and the ideas The Wachowskis had for the movie. The duo had an unusual pitch, and talked about elements of the movie that didn’t seem that much important at the time.
Still, despite passing on such a great franchise like The Matrix and doing the awful Wild Wild West instead, Will Smith thinks that things turned out for the best.
“Keanu was perfect. Laurence Fishburne was perfect,” Smith explained. “If I had done it, because I’m black, then Morpheus wouldn’t have been black. They were looking at Val Kilmer. I was gonna be Neo and Val Kilmer was gonna be Morpheus, so I probably would have messed The Matrix up. I would have ruined it. So I did
You can check out Smith’s full story about this below.
The post Will Smith Reveals Why He Turned Down the Role of Neo in The Matrix appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>The post Will Smith Reveals Why He Turned Down the Role of Neo in The Matrix appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>Now, 20 years after the first Matrix movie was released, Smith finally decided to reveal the story about why he turned down the role. According to the Men in Black star, he didn’t understand the vision and the ideas The Wachowskis had for the movie. The duo had an unusual pitch, and talked about elements of the movie that didn’t seem that much important at the time.
Still, despite passing on such a great franchise like The Matrix and doing the awful Wild Wild West instead, Will Smith thinks that things turned out for the best.
“Keanu was perfect. Laurence Fishburne was perfect,” Smith explained. “If I had done it, because I’m black, then Morpheus wouldn’t have been black. They were looking at Val Kilmer. I was gonna be Neo and Val Kilmer was gonna be Morpheus, so I probably would have messed The Matrix up. I would have ruined it. So I did
You can check out Smith’s full story about this below.
The post Will Smith Reveals Why He Turned Down the Role of Neo in The Matrix appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
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