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What if I told you...
... that the Wachowskis first contacted Will Smith to be Neo, but he turned it down as he was working on Wild Wild West at the time?
But uh yeah, it is absurd and infuriating that 'red pill' now means "become a misogynist douchebag scam artist bullshit guru to maximize profits" in a movie series that is entirely about defying the world as constructed by orientation around the profit motive.
I still use red pill to mean estrogen and if a misogynist tells me he took the red pill, I congratulate her on starting her transition.
Wow that's a bombshell piece of trivia, can you imagine if Smith said yes? Thank god it turned out this way.
To prove I am not making this up:
https://people.com/movies/why-will-smith-turned-down-the-matrix/
https://screenrant.com/will-smith-matrix-neo/
The term “Agent Smith” within the movies would become very confusing.
Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?
Also the Red Pill in the movie is literally estrogen. The Wachowskis based it off perscribed estrogen pills for trans women in the 90s.
So Maga idiots saying "take the red pill" today are literally saying they want to be women.