We showed the film to Keanu, and he really was blown away by it, and he said something that was typically Keanu, where it’s incredibly insightful.
And you took the same character and the same stories and the same stuff, and somehow you made it about the next twenty years.’
And he was like, ‘How did you do that?’
And he’s just sort of sitting there, and you don’t expect some incredible revelation to come out of him at that moment, like casual brilliance just kind of rolls off of Keanu.
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The Art of Scriptwriting: Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Tom Tykwer, Aleksandar Hemon on "Matrix"