Post by Shire Hobbit on Oct 30, 2003 18:31:23 GMT -5
News on the movie Matrix Revolutions
Matrix Rain Vexed Reeves
Keanu Reeves, who reprises the role of Neo in the third and last Matrix movie, told reporters that his climactic fight with Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) was shot in such a downpour that he couldn't see or hear the other actor. "On the first take, when Hugo and I—Smith and Neo—fight, the rain came down, and we realized that we couldn't see each other," Reeves said at a news conference in Los Angeles to promote The Matrix Revolutions. "But we'd fought so much together that we actually didn't have to see each other, which was kind of a cool thing."
Reeves added, "It was just dramatic. It was fun. It was like a ton of water a minute or something like that. So we were wet for a couple of weeks. Six weeks."
The fight comes at the end of the movie and wraps up the story of the Matrix trilogy. While shooting the key scene, Reeves said, "we wore wetsuits underneath our costumes. And Neo had, I think, 21 different cassocks, and I think five of them were used for the rain. ... I had a light rain cassock, a dry ... talking cassock. The other thing that Hugo and I found was that when we would do the scenes we couldn't hear each other. And we couldn't actually hear ourselves, because the big, fat, juicy raindrops that they'd taken two months to design were loud. So to try and find the scene and feel the scene, it was frustrating sometimes, because you couldn't hear yourself and you couldn't hear your fellow actor. So we had to kind of work through that." The Matrix Revolutions opens worldwide on Nov. 5.
Matrix Rain Vexed Reeves
Keanu Reeves, who reprises the role of Neo in the third and last Matrix movie, told reporters that his climactic fight with Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) was shot in such a downpour that he couldn't see or hear the other actor. "On the first take, when Hugo and I—Smith and Neo—fight, the rain came down, and we realized that we couldn't see each other," Reeves said at a news conference in Los Angeles to promote The Matrix Revolutions. "But we'd fought so much together that we actually didn't have to see each other, which was kind of a cool thing."
Reeves added, "It was just dramatic. It was fun. It was like a ton of water a minute or something like that. So we were wet for a couple of weeks. Six weeks."
The fight comes at the end of the movie and wraps up the story of the Matrix trilogy. While shooting the key scene, Reeves said, "we wore wetsuits underneath our costumes. And Neo had, I think, 21 different cassocks, and I think five of them were used for the rain. ... I had a light rain cassock, a dry ... talking cassock. The other thing that Hugo and I found was that when we would do the scenes we couldn't hear each other. And we couldn't actually hear ourselves, because the big, fat, juicy raindrops that they'd taken two months to design were loud. So to try and find the scene and feel the scene, it was frustrating sometimes, because you couldn't hear yourself and you couldn't hear your fellow actor. So we had to kind of work through that." The Matrix Revolutions opens worldwide on Nov. 5.
