Keanu Reeves & Carrie-Anne Moss on The Matrix 4

It was in mid-May when we heard the hopeful news that the cast of The Matrix 4 had signed 8-week extensions, suggesting that Warner Bros. was feeling optimistic that the cast and crew could get back to filming in the near future. Principal photography had begun on Lana Wachowski’s fourth installment in her groundbreaking sci-fi saga back in February, starting in San Francisco and then moving to Berlin in mid-March. You know what happened next—production was halted on this and essentially every other film due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now that we’re inching towards a return to production, hopefully, a new interview with the film’s returning stars, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, reveals what brought these two back to the franchise.

Empire has an exclusive with the two actors, in which they reveal that it was the incredible script that brought them back into the fold. “Lana Wachowski wrote a beautiful script and a wonderful story that resonated with me,” Reeves told Empire. “That’s the only reason to do it. To work with her again is just amazing. It’s been really special, and the story has, I think, some meaningful things to say, and that we can take some nourishment from.”

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