Chapter 440 - The Filming in Austrália 2 (1/2)

Jake soon went to where Keanu Reeves was because he wanted to talk to him more, Keanu Reeves was famous even before the movie The Matrix, Jake watched some of his films Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Speed.

But the films that Keanu Reeves made that Jake liked the most were the Matrix, Speed, Constantine, The Lake House, and John Wick franchise, even so, Jake watched almost every Keanu Reeves film and in the future, he would be one of the most beloved actors in the world.

”Mr. Reeves, it is a great pleasure for me to meet you in person, I am a huge fan who has watched several films that you have made and I really enjoyed.”

”You must be Jake Smith, I heard a lot from you too, you don't have to be so formal with me and you can call me Keanu, did I hear that this is your first supporting character in a movie?”

”Yes Mr. Reeves, this is the first film that I will have a character that is important for the film, I am very happy to work with you, I am sure that this film will be a success.”

”It is good to see that you are excited, you learned in the last few months with Woo-ping, so if he said that you are prepared you will have a good performance in this film, don't be nervous and do what the directors say and everything will be fine.”

”Thank you, Mr. Reeves, I will speak to the other actors and then we will meet at the scene of the shooting.”

Jake was happy that Keanu Reeves was as nice and kind as he had heard in the media, Jake admired Keanu Reeves for many things, one of which was because he was filming this movie and doing fights even with a spinal injury.

After that Jake told Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving that he was also a fan for their work on The Matrix and also in other films, the two had a very successful career and Hugo Weaving mainly for being part of The Lord of the trilogy Rings, V for Vendetta and part of the Marvel films.

Jake was also happy to meet Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano who had outstanding characters in this film, the other actors did not know that Jake was a fan of them because of the film The Matrix and just thought he was polite and excited and liked him.

The other actors were not bothered by Jake coming to Sydney after them for filming because they knew that all of this was the directors 'decision and the actors normally did not question the directors' decision unless they were big names in Hollywood and so they could pressure the director.

Jake was calm because he already knew the film very well and seeing his script Jake can see why the character he would play did not exist in the movie The Matrix he watched because his character would only change the story of the film a little, but the end of the film would be the same.

Jake's character could make the story more realistic and acceptable to the audience, the name of the character Jake would make was Jev, some critics said the story was meaningless because the crew of Morpheus' ship to Nebuchadnezzar always survived by escaping from the agents.

But in the film, it is shown that not even Morpheus can fight the agents and so there was no logic that they could survive so long by invading the Matrix, even more, because they had other sh.i.p.s that could also enter the Matrix without problems.

So Jake's character would be the only one of the sh.i.p.s that could fight against the agents to help his team escape in the most dangerous missions, of course, Jev could not dodge bullets and always had to be taken care of in fights.

So also when Neo who was Keanu Reeves' character appeared as ”The One” and Cypher decides to betray them, the crew would suspect that in fact, Jake's character could be the traitor because Jev always fights the agents and finds a way to escape alive.

So even though Jake's character was important, it didn't have much relevance to the story and was cut to make Neo more special as the only one who can fight the agents.

Even so in the changed story, Jake would have an important character who would have a highlight and would be one of the few who would survive Cypher's betrayal at the end of the film, Jake's character would not die in the first film.

But Jake worried about that because he remembered that the second and third films would be shot together and he would not have time to participate in the other films so the story could have a problem in the future.

But Jake wasn't going to talk to the Wachowskis about it because they could just change their mind and make the two films in two separate years outside the NBA season and Jake would definitely be on the record.

Or the Wachowskis could simply give Jake a small part in the next film and kill his character so as not to cause trouble for the shoot, anyway Jake was happy to be in that first film.

As Jake's part was more in the fights and in the action scenes he didn't have many lines in one day of recording and with his photographic memory, he could decorate after reading a few times, as Jake knew the film well he had to train the speaks a few times to look like the other characters in the film.