A Particularly Tough Matrix Stunt Nearly Took Carrie-Anne Moss Out Of Commission

According to Brian Raferty’s e book “Best. Movie. Year. Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen,” Moss was stunned to be taught that she’d be doing her personal stunts (through Wired): “I bear in mind considering, they do not actually assume I’m gonna do that stuff, like leaping from one constructing to a different. Of course I’m not going to try this!”

The scene in query has Neo (Keanu Reeves) doing a quadruple kick and Trinity (Moss) doing a loopy cartwheel off of a wall. Moss confessed to being fairly nervous about pulling it off, recalling, “The weekend earlier than I needed to do it, I used to be within the coaching middle in tears, saying: ‘I can not do it! I can not do it!'” Raferty goes on to inform how, “an hour earlier than the cameras rolled, whereas training along with her trainers, she injured her ankle and fell to the bottom, moaning, ‘Oh no, oh no,’ as a crew of stunt staff rubbed her again. She was capable of excellent the cartwheel later that day throughout rehearsals however struggled as soon as the cameras had been rolling, letting out what appeared like a loud, anguished ‘F***!'”

Can you think about the stress Moss should have felt? Knowing the movie was resting on her means to do issues regular people cannot, issues that would actually harm her, regardless of all of the precautions? There are stunt performers who pull off death-defying feats like this for a residing, in spite of everything. Most of the stunt performers I do know are professionals with years of coaching, however they’ve additionally all damaged a very good variety of bones.

Ultimately, Moss was capable of not solely overcome her worry however her harm as nicely, managing the stunt superbly. If you have seen the movie, you understand how attractive and grounded that sequence seems.