The Matrix Resurrections - Lexi's actress, Eréndira Ibarra: "When the casting call I cried for an hour and a half"
The Matrix Resurrections arrives at HBO Max, Warner Home and Blu-ray.In that context, we speak with Eréndira Ibarra, who gives life to Lexi in the last installment of the franchise.Find out what he said about his experience with Wachowski and Keanu Reeves in this note!
The Matrix Resurrections, the last film of the renowned franchise (at least until now?), It was released in cinemas just over a month ago.It was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated deliveries in 2021 and surprised many, both for better and bad.
Directed by Wachowski Lana, this sequel brings back to the iconic neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and presents a new team: Bugs, as the captain of the ship, and her crew formed by Sequoia, Bergand Lexy.The latter is played by Mexican actress Eréndira Ibarra, who told us how it was to participate in Matrix and return to work with Wachowski, after giving life to Daniela Velázquez in the Sense8 series.
A month after its premiere, The Matrix Resurrections is close to raising 150 million dollars worldwide.This number that is not good news for Warner Bros since they spent 190 million to make the movie.For now, to wait to see if they get to recover the lost money and if their next premiere at HBO Max helps lift the figures.
For those who still did not see The Matrix Resurrections we leave them the synopsis here: “In a world of two realities, everyday life and what is behind it, Thomas Anderson will have to choose whether to follow the white rabbit once again.The choice, although it is an illusion, remains the only way to leave or enter the Matrix, which is stronger, safe and dangerous than ever ”.If you like the history of Neo, keep in mind that this film 28 will be available on the HBO Max streaming platform, and thus complete the entire franchise.
As we said at the beginning, Eréndira Ibarra already has experience with the direction of Wachowski wool, but it is not the only.Part of the Sense8 team also participated in The Matrix Resurrections, some in costumes, others in photography and a pair more in the cast, such as Toby Onwumere (Sequoia), Brian J.Smith (Berg) and Max Riemelt (Sheperd).Having shared screen with Ibarra years before, the idea of forming a team was nothing new.
Volver a trabajar con Lana Wachowski
"It was like returning home.The truth is that I always tell Lana as a lovingly mom and have the opportunity to return to her hands, to her magical world, especially this in particular (referring to Matrix).If she had spoken to me for anything, I do it, but when Matrix tells you ... the words do not fit, ”said the actress.Then, he added: “It was one of the best experiences.Reach the set and meet Lindsay Pugh of costumes, with John Toll, the photographer, with Daniele Massaccesi (both photography directors).The entire team so extraordinary with which we had the opportunity to create this family in Sense8, because, it was to return home with my family to play in a project that also defined all of us who were standing there ”.
Next to Ibarra, Onwumere, Smith, Riemelt, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, The Matrix Resurrections also has renowned actors.We find Jada Pinkett Smith, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris and Priyanka Chopra, who give life to both new characters and old.
Because of the confidence between Wachowski and Ibarra, the actress told us that when the director informed her and the other Sense8 actors that some characters had written to them, Ibarra, with a laugh, replied: “Ok, what father, what doLet's do now, mom? ".Without expecting the answer would be nothing more or nothing less than Matrix.
-¿Cómo te enteraste que ibas a ser parte de Matrix Resurrections?
“We were in New York for a friend's wedding, who came out right in Sense8 (Marc Jacobs) and invited us all.Wool parents had just died and told us that he had written again to heal his heart and that, curiously, he had returned to those characters that were so important to his dad and his mother, that they were Neo and Trinity, and that he hadmade some little people who see what they seemed to us ”.
"And the truth is that we went very much with the idea of‘ I will be tree 2, and I will be the most chingón tree that they have seen ’.And when the call arrived - many months later, I had almost forgotten - that there was a significant role in the new movie, I cried like for an hour and a half.I shouted, I called my mother and my dad, as if Lana had never told me in New York.I couldn't believe it, really.And I still, deeply grateful to Lana to see in me the ability to load a character like Lexy and be in a movie like Matrix ”.
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La creación del personaje
Lexy, the character of Eréndira Ibarra, although it does not come out so much in the movie, it makes it clear that he is not in the Bugs ship because he follows Neo, but because of the admiration he has Trinity.The 36-year-old actress had commented that the character of Carrie-Anne Moss influenced her since I was a child and apparently that feeling was transported to the screen.
When asked about how it was to become Lexy, Ibarra replied: "It was a super delicious metamorphosis".While the actress said that in general she really enjoys the creative process of the creation of the character, since she is usually quite involved, with Wachowski wool it was not so like that."Wool is very clear about her ideas and how she wants.Then I felt like a piece of plasticine and every time I went to the set and put tattoos and saw these yes, these did not, or the hair tried in a way and it was like that not.I was simply silent and saying ‘Thank you, thanks, thanks, whatever you want, as you want,” he explained.
“The hair was a bit a conflict for me because that hairstyle is difficult and can obviously be controversial, but the idea of the metal armor in the hair, like a hull to go to war was also incredible.It took six hours in my hair, three hours in makeup, but every time I put me in character I felt like the warrior who is Lexy and that moved me a lot ”.
Cómo es filmar con Lana Wachowski
At the time of talking about Wachowski's work method, Eréndira Ibarra explained that she felt as a translator of the new way of filming the director.While Matrix 1, 2 and 3 family had already worked with Wachowski, the last time they shared Set was nine years ago and were accustomed to filming "in a more traditional way".
Instead, Ibarra and those who come from Sense8 already had clear "how is the way to dance with the camera that has wool".The actress added: “It is very interactive, very different.Suddenly you pull a knee to get closer to the camera, you never know what lens it has because all the time has super zooms, all the time is changing and playing with open and closing, we go to the open, then we go to the closed one, then thenLet's go here or I'm using such a lens ".
“With wool it is to dance around you and, as in theater, you simply have to be present 200% and aware of the camera too.So we were the translator band of this new way of filming wool and it was very fun to see how others reacted differently or did they have: ‘Is this going well?How will this come out?I've only seen a claque in all the time ’and it was like:‘ Yes, there is no claque ’.Joseph Jett Sally, the editor, who is the Sense8 editor too, is a great editor and knows how to understand the Dails de Lana ”.
A phrase that summarizes the actress's work experience with Lana Wachowski is: "Very beautiful, very interactive, it inspires a lot to be in a set with her, the truth".
¿Y Keanu Reeves?
Finally, we could not miss the opportunity to know a little more about the protagonist of the film: Neo and the actor who plays it, Keanu Reeves.
-How was it sharing Set with Keanu Reeves?Is it true what they say about him is super generous and good vibes?
"Is the most.I think all media are right even if he says otherwise.Suddenly it is like a very private person, but very generous.Wool does not like to wait at the Camas, we are always sitting on the set around her, and a lot of the new band saidThere sitting with his best attitude and his hat, ready to go to the set, and if he does not complain, which is the most madrizas took everyone, how are you going to complain?It was a love.All the fights, all the scenes turned and said ‘super good, so what if you do this?’.I gave you tips and supported you.He is a great person and I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him.
Toda una experiencia
While The Matrix Resurrections premiered more than a month ago, Eréndira Ibarra still can believe that it is part of this innovative franchise: “I already went to see her three times.I am crazy to have her at home and start seeing her again and again, stop it and say, is me? If I leave? ".
Luckily, Matrix's fourth movie is released this Friday, January 28 at HBO Max.So it is a good opportunity not only for those who still did not see it, but also for those who want to see it again.