Keanu Reeves couldn’t be extra grateful for the sci-fi mind-bender that made him an icon.
The pensive motion star was visibly emotional when, throughout an look Tuesday on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” he was requested to share his fondest reminiscence from numerous productions — and Colbert inquired about “The Matrix” on its twenty fifth anniversary.
After an earnest pause that Colbert joked might be a industrial break, Reeves opened up.
“The Matrix changed my life,” the actor confessed. “And then, over these years, it’s changed so many other people’s lives in really positive and great ways. As an artist, you hope for that when you get to do a film or tell a story.”
“And so when you say these years and the amount of people that I have met who have said to me they have been touched by ‘The Matrix’ in such a positive way,” Reeves continued earlier than one other reflective pause, “it’s the best.”
The actor has actually touched thousands and thousands extra with just a few different standouts from his profession, together with “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (1989), “Point Break” (1991) and “Speed” (1994), that are at present celebrating their thirty fifth, thirty third and thirtieth anniversaries, respectively.
Whereas these movies efficiently scratched an itch for comedy followers and motion crowds, none has had fairly the impression of Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s “The Matrix” — which blended philosophical questions on free will with visible results the world had by no means seen earlier than.
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The fusion of motion, science-fiction and kung-fu genres turned a worldwide phenomenon and grossed greater than $460 million worldwide on the field workplace in 1999. It spawned two direct sequels and a fourth entry in 2021, with the franchise incomes about $1.8 billion up to now.
Whereas mere point out of “The Matrix” provoked real reflection in him, Reeves excitedly shared that “Bill & Ted” yielded a priceless friendship with former co-star Alex Winter, whereas “Point Break” made him admire “the beauty” of the late and “awesome Patrick Swayze.”
When it got here to his fondest reminiscence from the set of “Speed,” the viewers couldn’t assist however giggle — as Reeves instantly recalled “Sandra Bullock and Jan de Bont, the director, saying, ‘Give me the fucking camera!’”
