Smith uploaded a video on YouTube explaining why he determined to not take Neo’s position in The Matrix, which ultimately went to Reeves.
“After we made Males in Black, the Wachowskis, they got here in, and so they had solely finished one film, I believe it was referred to as Certain, and so they made a pitch for The Matrix,” he recalled.
Smith continued, “Because it seems, they’re geniuses, however there is a positive line in a pitch assembly between a genius and what I skilled within the assembly. That is the precise pitch that they made for The Matrix. ‘Dude, we’re pondering like, think about you are in a combat, you then soar, think about in case you may cease leaping in the course of the soar.'”
In accordance with the actor, he didn’t assume the movie would have been the identical if he had accepted the position, particularly since “Keanu was excellent, Laurence Fishburne was excellent.”