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View submission: Keanu Reeves - HELLO!
How did you come to the role of Neo?
Comment by _KeanuReeves at 13/10/2014 at 15:14 UTC
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I was very lucky.
Heh.
Um, I got a call from my agent, saying that these directors, the Wachowskis, wanted to meet, and they sent me the script, and the script was absolutely amazing, and I went in to meet with them, and they showed me some artwork, of their vision, and an early version of "bullet time," and it was very exciting and inspiring, and we looked at each other, we ended up hanging out in a parking lot outside the offices just talking and riffing, and we basically just kinda shook hands - they told me they wanted me to train for 4 months prior to filming, and I got a big grin on my face and said: "**Yes.**"
That's how it happened.
Comment by regedit007 at 14/10/2014 at 09:43 UTC
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Thanks to Will Smith