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Will Smith explained why he turned down the Matrix

“I didn’t want to be pigeonholed as the guy from the alien movies, so I turned down Men in Black (1997), but Steven Spielberg called me (he was a producer)… He said: Don’t use your brain for this movie, use mine. ”, He explained.

Why I Turned Down The Matrix | STORYTIME

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In this timeline, the Wachowski brothers arrived – who at that time were men until their transformation – and they proposed The Matrix project to him for its special effects. “I am proud to have rejected The Matrix. I would have ruined it. So I did everyone a favor”, so he chose to participate in The Wild Wild West in 1999, being – in his opinion – a bad decision due to the results it gave box office.

“If I had been Neo, being black, Morpheus could not have been black,” says actor Will Smith.

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