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 Who
am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? That's the big question that
the movie asks and it's up to you to go back and see it again if you
want to figure that out. You have the choice. The choice is yours.
I
certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing
one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are
three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
I
think more than anything the directors were probably the ones who felt
the most pressure with concerns to how the audience would respond. But I
also know that they worked really hard to make sure the story was
exciting and to create things that would really satisfy an audience and
I think they've done it well.
I
think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop
culture phenomenon that it is.
The
thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's
really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them.
That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate
them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun.
There's something fun about words.
I
think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a
lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life
and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some
point.
I've
played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get.
People saw my face and went "Oooh.
I'm
very happy that we're done. Mostly because like a lot of people I'm a
fan of The Matrix and I wanted to see these movies, not just be in them.
It's rare that you get a chance to be in something that you really want
to see as well. So I'm happy it's over, but I miss the day-to-day fun we
had - training together, working together, eating and playing together.
We'd be working hard all day and then at four o'clock, every day, the
footballs and frisbees would come out and we'd start playing around. I
miss that.
Special
effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just
because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.
It's
inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because
he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be
telling stories on the big screen.
I
don't think there's anything that can prepare you for what you'll see in
The Matrix Reloaded. And I assure you, you can't get ready for what
you'll see in The Matrix Revolutions.
For
the last six months people have been coming up to me and saying, I loved
you in Pulp Fiction, Mr. Jackson.
Well,
it's pretty cool, actually. Batman, Superman, Robin... we get to be
superheroes in this movie and the child inside us is overjoyed about
that.
Let
me put it to you this way. I believe in the world of the seen and I
believe in the world of the unseen and I am a person who has the
capability of moving between those worlds effortlessly. There is no
Matrix, there is only what is real. Part of my professional life is
playing people and then I have my real life, and I have a real good
perspective on both of those things.
I've
played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get.
People saw my face and went 'oooh'.
She
was 12 when we made this movie. She's this little girl as far as I'm
concerned. My son just entered Boston University, so now I get the
opportunity to spend time with her. I have been making trips once a
month to New York and I take her to the theater.
Well,
none of us had large expectations - we all loved the material, we all
worked really hard to play our roles and fulfil the wishes of our
directors. With respect to Reloaded our expectations were the same. We
knew what we expected of ourselves and our directors and we all just
sort of jumped in and tried to serve them and the piece.
Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
Hiding a talent is not exclusive to any one particular group of people, young, old, black, white, Latin. It doesn't matter. It's universal. The idea that you have a gift or talent is always kind of threatening. Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.
Why
should I read all those words that I'm not going to get to say?
We
were hugging each other like we always do.
You
know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come
together as actors is not something I think we can explain. |
