Keanu Reeves didn’t know about the deeper meaning behind The Matrix franchise. In a recent interview with Netflix Film Club, director Lilly Wachowski admitted that she and her sister Lana – who are both trans but weren’t out at the time of the film’s release – crafted the film with a trans narrative. “I’m glad that it has gotten out that that was the original intention,” she revealed. “But the world wasn’t quite ready yet.
The corporate level, the corporate world wasn’t quite ready for it yet. “I don’t know how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing it.
It all came from the same sort of fire that I’m talking about. Especially for me and Lana, we were existing in this space where the words didn’t exist, so