‘We had absolutely no chemistry’: This star almost played Trinity in The Matrix opposite Keanu Reeves.

In his new memoir, entitled worthyPosted on October 17, Jada Pinkett Smith recalls her audition for the role of Trinity, which also featured Salma Hayek.

The actor says Will Smith was Lana and Lily Wachowski’s first choice to play Neo in The Matrix, which was released in 1999. However, the latter chose to play the role of Muhammad Ali in Michael Mann’s biopic Ali at that time. That’s how Keanu Reeves got the role.

And there were the Wachowskis to play against.Willing to choose a woman of color“For the role of the Trinity to express ourselves as filmmakers,”Their view of the world beyond white people surviving in an apocalyptic future“, explain Jada Pinkett Smith (via Variety ).

But he wasn’t the only one there: “Salma and I went through a series of physical auditions to make sure we could master the martial arts that Trinity mastered.“, he wrote, adding that he wanted the role even more after Laurence Fishburne signed on to play Morpheus.

Then the Wachowskis asked him to take a new step: read the script Keanu Reeves to test their chem. So he thought, as a huge fan of the Point Break star, that “It will definitely be a walk in the park“. and still…

We had absolutely no chemistry during the reading. Absolutely none. The sky. Usually, when I don’t get a role I really want, I think I would have been a better choice. But to this day, I can’t think of anyone who would be a better trinity than Carrie-Anne Moss. He was the coolest.

Jada Pinkett Smith Still a part of the legendary sci-fi franchise, she played the role of Niobe in the second and third installments of the saga, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, both released in 2003.

The Matrix trilogy can still be seen on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.