Few people know that Keanu Reeves could be replaced by Will Smith in the famous role of Neo from The Matrix (1999). For all of you who have ever wondered how a successful Hollywood actor, shot into the stratosphere by the TV series The Prince of Bel-Air and a role in the film Despicable Me, would fare in a sci-fi action thriller with Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano and Hugo Weaving from directors Andy and Larry Wachowski, you can see this in the excellent editing of The Unusual Suspect.
Skillful assembly YouTube user The Unusual Suspect we have to thank that we got the chance to see how it would be in a cult role No from the movie Matrix found out Will Smith, who was offered the role before To Keanu Reeves, but he rejected it and recorded it instead Wild Wild West Barry Sonnenfeld.
In a 2004 interview with Wired, Smith said that his he does not regret the decision and that he did not recognize her potential in the Matrix in the script at the time and added that he did not feel mature for the role, which he would certainly have taken on, as he himself added.
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Well, if he had accepted the cult role in the making then and it hadn't gone to Reeves, The Matrix would have looked something like the footage of The Unusual Suspect, which combined scenes from The Matrix with scenes Smith had shot for other films. The first was offered the role of the title character Neo Johnny Depp.
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