In Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections, Keanu Reeves is given a romantic rival of types. Supplied that Thomas Anderson a.k.a. Neo doesn’t recall the occasions of the unique trilogy, he is not conscious of his passionate relationship with Carrie-Anne Moss’ Tiffany a.k.a. Trinity, and the new sequel sees her married to somebody else. The guy she’s married to is a handsome dude named Chad – and if you have been carefully next Reeves’ career in current years, you may well have observed that he’s played by John Wick director Chad Stahelski.
It is a enjoyable meta cameo in between a selection of fantastic meta jokes in The Matrix Resurrections, and when I interviewed Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss before this thirty day period I requested the two stars how it came to be a element of the creation. Reeves delivered the background on the intelligent bit of casting, noting that it was Lana Wachowski’s thought, and that it very considerably ties again into the filmmaker’s historical past with the Matrix franchise:
You know, there is certainly a whole lot of enjoyable in the film, and I think Lana Wachowski… I signify, Chad Stahelski labored with Lana on the trilogy – as he suggests, he went to movie college, Wachowski movie faculty – and I consider it was just entertaining for Lana to put him in the motion picture as [Carrie Anne-Moss’] husband… Handsome Chad: the man who I’ve labored with is my rival. (Laughs)
In the last couple of many years, Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski have developed shut as collaborators many thanks to the John Wick trilogy (which will further increase with the approaching John Wick: Chapter 4), but their marriage goes back again many years. As alluded to in the job interview, Stahelski was Reeve’s stunt double in 1999’s The Matrix, and he was the martial arts stunt coordinator on both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Chad Stahelski had a great offer of practical experience in the stunt environment prior to his do the job on The Matrix, with movie credits such as The Crow, Escape From L.A., and Alien: Resurrection in the course of the 1990s, but when you look at that the Wachowski film is an legendary piece of motion cinema, it’s easy to understand why he would check out his encounter on the established as foundational content in his job.