But as she crept toward 30, she suspected that her chances to do serious film work were dwindling. She had managed to get regular-if a bit unglamorous-work on minor shows. Simply landing the job had been something of a shock for Moss who, after growing up in Vancouver and modeling in Europe, had moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. “I know the feeling of a thing more than I know the intellectualizing of the thing.” In person, Moss sounds a lot more like The Oracle than like Trinity. “I remember the concepts being very difficult for me to comprehend,” she admits. She, on the other hand, focused more on instinct and feeling. “So then I was imagining, how old was she when she got pulled out ? I had decided she was really young, like a child.” Moss recalls that Reeves had done a load of intellectual legwork to prepare for the role of Neo, reading a stack of books recommended to him by “Matrix” creators Lana and Lily Wachowski. “What we do know about Trinity, because The Oracle told her, was that she would know who The One was because she would love him,” Moss continues in between sips of chai from a giant thermos she’s brought from home, remembering the journal entry. But that was about the extent of the Trinity story.Īs an actor, this didn’t give Moss much to work with, so she took the matter of Trinity’s life into her own hands-envisioning some biographical details that she committed to her journal. We know she had a closet full of impossibly well-fitting latex and leather garments, a killer kung-fu kick, and that she would help Neo embody his powers as The One by falling in love with him. While the film took pains to lay out Neo’s backstory as a computer programmer named Thomas Anderson, it gave the audience almost no biographical information about Trinity. “I had written a letter in my journal about my talk with The Oracle,” Moss tells me. After the move, while she was unpacking her renovated farmhouse, she started digging through old notebooks, and stumbled through a portal into her past: A journal entry from 22 years ago, written during the making of the original “Matrix” film, at a moment when she was still trying to understand the Trinity character. Last year, Moss moved her family from Los Angeles to rural New Hampshire, where she spends most of her time taking care of her children, meditating, and sitting by the fire. Moss’s own life has changed enormously-and this hectic week spent in New York is, to use the most obvious possible metaphor, about as far from her typical day-to-day experience as the Matrix is to the real world. “All of us who were watching those things 20 years ago have aged too, so we can feel some comfort in seeing where their lives are now, and looking at where our lives are now and what’s happening with us.”
“I remember what was hot when ‘The Matrix’ was out: ‘Friends,’ ‘Sex and the City,’” she continues. is the studio behind the film franchise.) “That’s the thing about stories: They never really end,” Neo is told. For instance, the movie kicks off with Keanu Reeves as Neo-now back in the Matrix, unaware of the real world-being tasked with developing a new “Matrix” video game by “our beloved parent company, Warner Bros.” (Warner Bros. The project is a massive commercial undertaking and an exercise in global nostalgia that contains a blizzard of fight scenes, absurd conceptual loopholes and winking meta-commentary about the nature of reboot culture. This next chapter in the saga-arriving 22 years after the premiere of the original-is the first Matrix film in some 18 years. Moss, who is now 54, is in New York City this week on a whirlwind promotional tour for “The Matrix Resurrections,” the franchise’s fourth installment.
Black tank top, dark-wash jeans, black hair cropped short and swept back, unspoiled Snow-White complexion and gemstone-blue eyes, Moss looks as if she’s been preserved in alien goop in one of those human-harvesting pods made famous in the film. Big, returning to her infamous bachelorette pad in the reboot of “Sex and the City.” Our TVs will not let us escape the past.Īnd there, standing in front of me, is Trinity from “The Matrix.” Actually, it’s Carrie-Anne Moss, the actress who has played Trinity since the franchise began back in 1999, but the woman who genially invites me into her hotel room has such an immutable essence that it’s disorienting.
There’s Michael Gandolfini, acting out Tony Soprano’s origin story in “The Many Saints of Newark.” There’s Sarah Jessica Parker, somehow still in crisis over Mr. Everywhere you look, there’s another lucrative time warp, lulling us back into the pre-social media bliss of 20 years ago: There’s the cast of “Friends,” reuniting on the sets where the show was shot. We may be living on the cusp of 2022, but our brains are inexorably stuck at the turn of the millennium.
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