“It never was interesting to me as an idea to continue it,” she said.
And also a good friend died in this very short period…
It was just this constant grief.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return as Neo and Trinity in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’.Warner Bros. Pictures
My dad died, then this friend died, then my mom died.
I didn’t really know how to process that kind of grief.
I hadn’t experienced it that closely."
Lana recalled crying one night she couldn’t fall asleep.
“Suddenly,” she said, “my brain just exploded this whole story.”
“It was immediately comforting to have these two characters alive again, and it’s super-simple.
Yeah, it did!
It’s simple, and this is what art does and this is what stories do.
They comfort us and they’re important.”
“And I didn’t want to do that.”
The Matrix Resurrectionsis scheduled to hit theaters and HBO Max on Dec. 22.
Watch Lana’s remarks in the video above, starting around the 5:20 mark.
