Keanu on the rumours that the cast spent as much time in casualty as in front of the camera: "Yeah, people got hurt. It was, īHeīs pulled this, heīs pulled that... smashed this, smashed that.ī But we didnīt break any noses. For some reason we were all really good at not hitting each other. Or at least we saved it for the shoot. I know Laurence and Hugo had to punch their fists together."
Keanu on wirefighting: "Itīs great. That fall where I jump from the building, that was like a 35 - foot - wire jump. They just had some guys and a machine dropping me upside down. I got good enough to do the front flip and the back flip and the run up the wall. And I got to do one of the spins, so I really enjoyed it."
Keanu on why he chose to do The Matrix: "It was the script, the writing first of all. The way the characters speak and what they say. I loved the dialogue and the ideas in the piece. I was really struck by the storytelling."
Source: Empire Magazine issue 121, July, 1999.
