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There isn’t any scarcity of iconic films that actor Keanu Reeves has blessed the world with all through his illustrious profession, however the beloved sci-fi basic “The Matrix” really stands out from the remaining.
Throughout an appearance on Monday’s episode of “The Late Present,” host Stephen Colbert talked about a choice of Reeves’ hottest movies, together with their anniversaries, reminding the star that “The Matrix” turns 25 this 12 months. Colbert then requested Reeves to share his fondest reminiscence from the film.
“‘The Matrix’ modified my life, after which over these years, it’s modified so many different folks’s lives, in actually optimistic and nice methods,” Reeves mentioned, his voice quivering.
“As an artist, you hope for that while you get to do a movie or inform a narrative,” he added. “And so while you say these years, the quantity of people that I’ve met who’ve… been touched by ‘The Matrix’ in such a optimistic method, it’s the very best.”
Reeves has appeared in 4 “Matrix” movies complete, the newest of which was “The Matrix Resurrections” in 2021.
Starring Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving and Carrie-Anne Moss, the primary “Matrix” is a dystopian sci-fi epic that follows Neo (Reeves), a pc hacker who’s summoned to hitch a cyber-intelligence riot after discovering that humanity is trapped inside a simulated actuality.
The movie raked in over $467 million on the time and have become one of many 12 months’s most worthwhile theatrical releases. It went on to win 4 Academy Awards and has earned just below $2 billion globally all through its 25-year lifespan.
Warner Bros. Movement Image Group, the movie’s studio, announced in April {that a} fifth installment of the “Matrix” franchise is within the works, but it surely’s not but been confirmed whether or not Reeves shall be part of it. (Warner Bros. Movement Image Group is a subsidiary of CNN’s mother or father firm, Warner Bros. Discovery.)