Lilly Wachowski has confirmed a major long-standing theory about The Matrix. In a recent interview with Netflix Film Club, Wachowski said she and her sister Lana – who are both trans but weren’t out at the time of the film’s release – intended to craft the film with trans allegories. “I’m glad that it has gotten out that that was the original intention,” she said. “But the world wasn’t quite ready yet.
The corporate level, the corporate world wasn’t quite ready for it yet.” Lilly added: “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 we were