{"id":7196,"date":"2021-12-24T22:05:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2021-12-24T22:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T03:28:58","slug":"the-matrix-resurrections-qa-with-actress-jessica-henwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=7196","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix Resurrections : Q&#038;A with Actress Jessica Henwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1719964576064987618\" data-legacy-message-id=\"17de8aab4e9be1e2\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":oy\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":ox\" class=\"a3s aiL \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><b>Synopsis<\/b> : To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, Mr. Anderson, aka Neo, will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. If he&#8217;s learned anything, it&#8217;s that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of &#8212; or into &#8212; the Matrix. Neo already knows what he has to do, but what he doesn&#8217;t yet know is that the Matrix is stronger, more secure and far more dangerous than ever before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1719964576064987618\" data-legacy-message-id=\"17de8aab4e9be1e2\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\":oy\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":ox\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7210\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-1024x434.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-1024x434.png 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-768x325.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-1536x651.png 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-2048x868.png 2048w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-696x295.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-1068x452.png 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-1920x813.png 1920w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Matrix-Ressurections2-1-991x420.png 991w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Q&amp;A with Actress Jessica Henwick on &#8220;The Matrix Resurrections&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: When was the first time you watched the Matrix films?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: I was probably 7 years old when the first one came out, so I didn\u2019t watch it in a theater. But I remember I was in Malaysia, I must be 12 or 13 years old when the second one came out. I tell everyone in interviews that I found a VHS tape because I didn\u2019t want to say that it was a pirated DVD. But it was one that I bought out of the back of a car.<\/p>\n<p>I found it, and noticed it had \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d the Matrix picture from the first film \u2014 such a big pop culture moment. I knew that I wasn\u2019t supposed to watch it, but I really wanted to. I was still too young, and it scared me. I was so afraid of my mouth getting so numb, and I was so afraid \u2014 like I never contemplated that your belly button was an orifice. So the idea that a robot would crawl in there gave me nightmares, and it really stayed with me. That\u2019s not the story you were expecting, was it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Not at all. But when you were offered the role\u2026you initially turned down the role&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: I was in a weird time where I didn\u2019t know if I wanted to act anymore, and I was on this hike. Then more than a month later, I finally got home, and decided, you know what? I\u2019ll keep acting. I was lucky that Lana [Wachowski] hadn\u2019t found anyone, and they asked me if I wanted to make a self-taped video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: You have a lot of screen time in this film, almost as good as the lead?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: No! No. There can only be one lead in \u201cThe Matrix\u201d, and that\u2019s Neo, and his hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: That\u2019s fair. But then let\u2019s talk about your hair \u2014 your blue hair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: Yes. Well, it was really intentional. Lana doesn\u2019t tell you anything about what\u2019s going on inside her head. She showed me a photo of this shade of blue that was really blue and I was like, \u201cThis is what it has to be.\u201d Obviously I know, and you guys all know, okay, red, blue, it\u2019s very symbolic in the show.<\/p>\n<p>She would not tell me why I had to have blue hair, though. Like it would make more sense that I would have red hair. I didn\u2019t know if she just wanted to throw people off, or if she\u2026 I guess because that\u2019s my hair in the Matrix and I\u2019m representing the Matrix in that way. I don\u2019t really know why she wanted it blue. There was no conversation about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7198\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-1024x781.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-1024x781.png 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-1536x1171.png 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-696x531.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-1068x814.png 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-551x420.png 551w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-Matrix-Resurrection1.png 1828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Did you keep your hair color when the Covid hit the production?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: No, it just seemed like that. Because filming was supposed to take four months, and then with Covid\u00a0\u2011\u2011 I was on the project for about a month (before the COVID hit our production), it was almost a year of my life (for this project).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: So you kept the blue hair for a long time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: Yeah, I was blue haired and then for a while I went back to normal. But that was just for the weekends for myself, and then I would go back to blue hair for work.<\/p>\n<p>It was meant to be a fast shoot, and then obviously we got shut down. We were in San Francisco when \u201cPatient Zero\u201d happened. We got out two days before they locked down. We flew to Berlin, and were there one week before they locked down. We all went home for three months, and then we went back and finished the film. We were the last film to shut down and we were the first film back up. So we were really creating the blueprint that we\u2019re now seeing if you work in film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How did that work in terms of insurance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: It was interesting because I guess, the insurance [people] said, \u201cYou can\u2019t, it\u2019s too dangerous to force the cast and crew to come back.\u201d Everyone was given a choice. All the cast said, \u201cYes,\u201d but some of our crew left. Our original DP, John Toll, never came back after the break.<\/p>\n<p>We all flew in and basically operated in these small groups where we would be given a lanyard of a certain color and you could only hang out with people with that color. You would go to your house and do nothing at the end of the workday. You were not allowed to go out; you could only fraternize with the cast and crew. But only a select amount of them.<\/p>\n<p>It was kind of isolating. Honestly, it was really sad and very odd, but no problem working. It was a fractious way to make a film, separating everyone like that. It\u2019s not really how life works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7199\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-1024x424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-1536x636.png 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-2048x848.png 2048w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-696x288.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-1068x442.png 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-1920x795.png 1920w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.58.55-PM-1014x420.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: In this film, there were several different fighting styles like Aikido and Taekwondo. How do you work with a fighting choreographer, especially during Covid, when you are not supposed be so close to each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: When I signed on\u2026The great thing about Bugs and about the Matrix is that it doesn\u2019t have to be a traditional form of fighting, whereas my experience is quite traditional. So I wanted it to feel like it\u2019s an amalgamation, and I truly think that I was only ready to do this because of my other experiences on the other projects.<\/p>\n<p>So I got the role, and the first thing they make you do is a stunt assessment. I go to L.A., and go into an empty warehouse near LAX and Chad [Stahelski] is there to help you. Chad is Keanu\u2019s original dub voice in the first Matrix film. You probably know him now because he\u2019s the director of the John Wick films, which has the craziest origin story.<\/p>\n<p>But he was there, and watched me throw punches, kicks, and how much choreography can I land. Okay, now do the whole thing in reverse. Now do the whole thing on your right side. Basically he assessed me, and then he said, \u201cI think we should go through this really visceral, fast, tension style now.\u201d So I trained like that.<\/p>\n<p>I get to set. Lana doesn\u2019t like making decisions before we get to set. So she would just rewrite the choreography on the day. So I had to train three months to learn this fight, two months to learn that fight. She was like, \u201cHow about you doing kickboxing there?\u201d And thank God, I knew how to do one, because they would just change their minds on a whim. Honestly, I think it was the hardest training I\u2019ve done, not physically but mentally.<\/p>\n<p>When we got shut down in Berlin, Lana fought so hard to get us to keep going. She even contemplated buying out the insurance herself and we would film with a skeleton crew \u2014 about six or seven people \u2014 and we would all be there, off insurance, doing it on our own in our spare time. Like, in our spare time, not going through the system, but basically renting out the idea from Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers said no.<\/p>\n<p>She was so bereft that she rang us all to gather us together and she Facetimed us and said, \u201cMaybe this is it. Maybe this is the legend of \u201cMatrix 4\u201d and we just won\u2019t come back. I don\u2019t know if I want to come back. Maybe \u201cMatrix 4\u201d will just be this mystery of all this footage that no one will ever get to see. And that\u2019s what our destiny is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I had to cut up all my f***ing hair and I was like, \u00a0\u201cWhat? No!\u201d The hardest thing was training for three months and then I was sent home. Morale was so low and we didn\u2019t know if we were going to come back, and we didn\u2019t know if Lana wanted to keep directing the film. They can\u2019t do it without her because she owns the rights. She owns the idea.\u00a0So training with no goal was difficult. I think I\u2019m the only cast member that solidly trained in the break\u2014 myself and Keanu, of course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7200\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-1024x429.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-1024x429.png 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-1536x644.png 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-2048x858.png 2048w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-696x292.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-1068x448.png 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-1920x805.png 1920w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.48-PM-1002x420.png 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: That was incredible. One of the other things that struck me about this film is how mind-blowing the visuals are and the concept of the video game world. It was really another level of like, mindf***ing. What was that like for you? When you read the script, and when you were doing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: Those are my favorite scenes, honestly. When I was reading it, I was cracking up. I couldn\u2019t believe that she\u2019d gone and punked Warner Brothers \u2014 to make jokes about Warner Brothers. Because it was so bold, and was such a commentary, obviously, on the original film, the response to the film, and all those discussions were real discussions that she had.<\/p>\n<p>She would go into rooms and the execs would tell her what the Matrix was and what they thought she needed to do. You know, she had a million offers over the years to make the full film and she turned them all down. But that\u2019s what the meetings were usually like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Well, she gets to show it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: Such a middle finger to the industry, I loved it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Where are we these days, especially for women filmmakers? Talk about your filmmaking career. This wasn&#8217;t on the list of what you were going to talk about, but wh about your what about your short film, \u201cBus Girl.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: Oh, my short! I\u2019ve been acting for 14 years, I think. I\u2019m still at a very young age, but two years ago, part of that questioning about my career was that I wanted to stop and take a second, and get rid of all the noise which I just talked about. I wanted to make sure that I was doing this because I wanted to do it and not because I was used to it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really easy in the Hollywood system to lose track of that. When I came out of that hype, I was like, \u201c I just want to tell more of my stories.\u201d I\u2019m really kind of jaded with the kind of stories that I read.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re at a completely over-saturated point now. There has never been more TV series and films so easily available and there\u2019s so much regurgitation of the same ideas, especially women-developed ones available for women, women of color and women of a certain age as well.<\/p>\n<p>I love that this film, to me, is a love letter to Trinity, and I think if it were another filmmaking bloke, it would be like: \u201cHmmmm, let\u2019s cast a younger Trinity.\u201d But Lana obviously would never have done that.<\/p>\n<p>This is all to say that I don\u2019t like complaining about things, I like just doing it instead. Just like trying to be a part of the change. [My film] is just a really small thing; I directed my first short film. I\u2019ve written before, and I\u2019m sort of in the writing system now with two companies.<\/p>\n<p>But this was my first real go at directing. It\u2019s called \u201cBus Girl\u201d. The lead was meant to be Jessie Mei Li. A lot of people look at it and go, \u201cOh, another actor directing themselves, a vanity project.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to be in it. And then she had a schedule \u2014 she\u2019s filming this Netflix film \u201cHavoc\u201d \u2014 because of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>What the studios are doing now is putting everyone \u201cin holding.\u201d So it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re filming or not, they just say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to pay you to stay home and do nothing because we want to work with you.\u201d She wasn\u2019t even filming on that film yet, but Netflix just went nuts, so she\u2019s not released.<\/p>\n<p>At the very last minute I had a change of plan. The short I made is shot on a Xiaomi phone and they\u2019re funding the project.Xiaomi basically said, \u201cIt\u2019s you or it\u2019s not going forward and we\u2019ll pull the plug.\u201d So I had to do it, which was a challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7201\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-1024x774.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-1024x774.png 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-768x581.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-1536x1161.png 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-696x526.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-1068x807.png 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-556x420.png 556w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-24-at-8.59.28-PM.png 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Q: How was directing yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: It sucks. I hate it. I\u2019m never doing it again. I\u2019m directing, but I\u2019ll never\u2026I wouldn\u2019t direct myself again until I found a producing partner or a First AD who I felt creatively was really symbiotic.<\/p>\n<p>Because the issue was, I first would call \u201caction,\u201d we\u2019d do the scene, I\u2019d call \u201ccut\u201d in the scene and I would walk over to a phone which was my monitor. We had like six phones, right? The phone we were using, we were pulling focus on another phone, and then we had phones set up for monitors, and we had the feed-camera phone.<\/p>\n<p>So I go to look at this phone, this tiny phone, to see the scene. I would give everyone else direction and then I\u2019d go, \u201cOh, shit. Okay, I need direction, too. What should I do? Just do this.\u201d Then I\u2019d go back into the scene and forget about all that and try and be in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand how people like Phoebe Waller-Bridge or Michaela Coel, I don\u2019t know how those women do it, they\u2019re amazing. Next up is just directing straight, and I don\u2019t want to be in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: I\u2019ll be excited to see it when it comes out. As we wrap up, would you talk about Asian representation in Hollywood and how it\u2019s changing \u2014 even with this film \u2014 with both you and Keanu at the helm?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: I\u2019ve never brought this topic to Keanu, but I should have done it. I\u2019m curious to hear his thoughts on it because he\u2019s so quiet and so private.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q : He\u2019s so mysterious?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JH: \u00a0It\u2019s funny, because when I was auditioning, it was open ethnicity, right? So I was going up against all the ethnicity. On another mainstream Hollywood film, you would know, \u201cOh, an Asian lead already? And you\u2019re not going to get it. There\u2019s only room for one.\u201d The room-for-one mentality. But no, Lana didn\u2019t seem to care. Not only that, but we also have Priyanka [Chopra Jonas].<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the first Matrix film, it was ahead of its time, and it was diverse. She has always been forward-thinking. Isn\u2019t it crazy to think that Will Smith auditioned for Neo and turned down? Isn\u2019t that insane? What a different film this would be. Totally. It would not be the same.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t remember thinking that anyone would be Morpheus other than\u2026 [An audience member \u00a0shouted, \u201cVal Kilmer\u201d]\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Well, Will Smith and Val Kilmer, that would have been a different film\u2026 No disrespect to Will Smith or Val Kilmer\u2026 It just can\u2019t be\u2026 But it\u2019s amazing to be a part of a film that is so diverse and has had [such] a history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\":oy\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":ox\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><strong><em>The Matrix Resurrections<\/em><\/strong> will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on Wednesday, December 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1719964576064987618\" data-legacy-message-id=\"17de8aab4e9be1e2\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis : To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, Mr. Anderson, aka Neo, will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. If he&#8217;s learned anything, it&#8217;s that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of &#8212; or into &#8212; the Matrix. 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