Matrix

Have written about Trinity and Neo elsewhere ............... Morpheus Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus: The Wachowskis instructed Fishburne to base his performance on the character Morpheus in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics Apparently if Will Smith had been Neo then Val Kilmer would have been Morpheus - Val is also cited as one of the actors who turned down Neo . ............. Agent Smith Jean Reno was offered the role, but declined, as he was unwilling to move to Australia for the production ..................... Madonna also turned down an undisclosed role, a decision she would later regret Trinity, Oracle, Switch, Niobe, White Rabbit girl - maybe ............................. SWITCH In the original script, Switch was a woman in the Matrix and a man in the real world, but this idea was removed. Years after the release of The Matrix, both of the Wachowskis came out as transgender women. The red pill has been likened to red estrogen pills. Morpheus's description of the Matrix creating a sense that something is fundamentally wrong, "like a splinter in your mind", has been likened to gender dysphoria. Lilly Wachowski said: "There's a critical eye being cast back on Lana, and I's work through the lens of our transness. This is a cool thing because it's an excellent reminder that art is never static." In 2020, Lilly said The Matrix was intended as an allegory for gender transition, but that "the corporate world wasn't ready". She said it was "all about the desire for transformation but it was all coming from a closeted point of view", but that she did not know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain" when the Wachowskis were writing it. , Keanu Reeves said the idea that the Matrix was an allegory for transgender identity "wasn't introduced to me when we started for production on the films."