Ay, parece que lo de Hugo Weaving no fue un mero conflicto de fechas...


“I wanted to do it,” Weaving told FilmInk during an interview for his upcoming film Hearts And Bones. “I was on board. Lana and I talked. The negotiations have fallen through. I’ve got an offer from a theatre company in London, so there were some date clashes, but it was completely doable. She has now seen not to involve me anymore. I’m absolutely shocked about it. I’ve worked with the Wachowskis five times. It’s a very odd thing that’s happened. She’s just pulled the plug on me being in it. I asked for some date changes, but it was perfectly doable.

It’s like seven scenes over five months and I wasn’t available for one the first month. And because of that, I had said, ‘I’d like to do both these things.’ It’s a wonderful play, and a wonderful offer. I had this offer from this theatre company first. I said that I really wanted to do both. Lana and I had long conversations…very, very open and fruitful and fun. She said that she would see if we can make it work. It took weeks and weeks and weeks. Finally, we worked it out. I had held off on this theatre company and had never made a decision about doing it. So, as soon I got the go ahead, I told the theatre company, ‘Yes, I’m in.’ A week later, the day I arrived in Toronto, I didn’t even get a call. I got a text from Lana saying, ‘I’ve changed my mind.’”



The decision hit Weaving very hard. “You can hear that I’m very emotional about it,” he said. “The story will be how he was unavailable, he was doing a play. I was totally available. She’s just become very wounded by me, for some reason. It’s a much too complicated story, really. But that’s the truth of it. I very much was available, and very much wanted to do it. I had reservations about doing it again and we talked about that. I was very open about that. ‘Is this a good idea, going back to The Matrix?’”