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WhenKeanu ReevesandCarrie-Anne Mossfirst set foot on the Australian sets ofThe Matrixmore than two decades ago, they had no idea how much the 1999 blockbuster would change their lives.“I was experiencing Australian jet lag—not that jet lag is Australian, but the jet lag going from the States to Australia,” Reeves, 57. “We were having coffee, looking out [at everything]. Do you remember that?“Moss, 54, says she remembers the coffee but at the time was still in disbelief that she’d made it to set.“I never expected to get the job,” she says. “Every time I got a little farther [in the audition process], it was just like, ‘If this is all it is, it’s amazing.’ And then as soon as I met [Keanu], that nervousness just went away.”
Twenty-four years later, the longtime friends (and fellow Canadians) sat down with PEOPLE to discuss their connection and return to the big screen as virtual reality rebels Thomas “Neo” Anderson and Trinity for a fourth movie,The Matrix Resurrections.
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In talking about their fourth return to theMatrix, playing iconic characters Neo and Trinity, the actors admit that training for their very physical roles always presents a challenge.
“I don’t do any [training] in my real life— maybe once in a while, but generally no,” says Reeves. “So for me, it’s intense to just start doing that five days a week, two to four hours a day.““Yeah, it’s kind of like your work priority of the day is training,” says Moss. “Whereas if I’m working out in my real life, I’m trying to squeeze in 20 minutes between [things]. I’ve got my weights in the kitchen, I’m making food and I’m doing my weights.”
source: people.com
