..Weaving also spoke about not appearing in the new Matrix movie too, though added that while he'd have been up for that too, he'd already committed to appearing on stage at the National Theatre at the same time. “I was in touch with [director] Lana Wachowski, but in the end she decided that the dates weren’t going to work,” he added. “So we’d sorted the dates and then she sort of changed her mind. They’re pushing on ahead without me.”
Weaving played the original villain of the trilogy, Agent Smith, pursuer of Keanu Reeves’ Neo.
Wachowski is soon to roll cameras on the long-awaited fourth movie in the series, some 17 years after Matrix Revolutions in 2003, with Reeves returning alongside Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick and Neil Patrick Harris also on the bill.
It is due to premiere in May, 2021....
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