The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski explains why she didn't return for Matrix 4

The Matrix (1999)
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Matrix co-creatorౠ Lilly Wachowski has explained why she didn't return for Matrix 4, officially titled The Matrix: Resur🌱rections.

"That's a tough one," Wachowski commented during a virtual panel for the Television Critics Association Summer Tour (H/T ). "I got out of my transition and was just completely exhausted because we had made 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cloud Atlas and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jupiter Ascending, and the first sea𝓀son of Sense8 back-to-back-to-back." 

She went on to explain she "needed this time away from this industry" and wanted to "reconnect with myself as 🦩an artist." Th🎃e director added: "[Lana Wachowski] had come up with this idea for another Matrix movie, and we had this talk, and it was actually – we started talking about it in between [our] dad dying and [our] mom dying, which was like five weeks apart."

She continued: "And there was something about the idea of going backward and being a part of something that I had done before that was expressly unappealing. And, like, I didn't want to have gone through my transition and gone through this massive upheaval in my life, the sense of loss from my mom and dad, to want to go back 🍒to something that I had done before, and sort of [walk] over old paths that I had walked in, felt emotionally unfulfilling, and really the opposite – like I was going to go back and live in these old shoes, in a way. And I didn't want to do that."

The Matrix 4 sees the return of Keanu Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, as well as Jada Pinꦦkett-Smith as Niobe, Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian, and Da𝔉niel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson. Lana Wachowski is back to direct. 

New cast members include Christina Ricci, Jessica Henwick, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:first trailer debuted at CinemaCon,🌊 and sees an amnesiac Neo and Trinity meeting again for the first time.

The Matrix: Resurrections arrives this December 22 in theaters and on HBO Max in the US. While you wait, check out our guide to all of 2021's upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:movie release dates.

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