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Will Smith Explains Why He Turned Down "The Matrix"

Will Smith posted a video on his YouTube channel explaining why he turned down The Matrix and how he did us all a favor.

Apparently he had just finished Independence Day and Men in Black and didn't want to be known as the "alien movie guy." Steven Spielberg told him not to think. So he ended up doing the latter film.

The Wachowski's pitched him The Matrix and he said it was a hard pitch to understand and he didn't get it. He says the pitch went like this, "dude, imagine you are in a fight and you jump but then you stop jumping."

He said no to The Matrix and instead made Wild Wild West.

Smith continued, to explain that The Matrix with Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne was perfect and had he done the movie there would have been no Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus it would have been Val Kilmer. 

Watch his full explanation below:


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