Laurence Fishburne has plenty of sore memories from his time in “The Matrix.”
“We were essentially the first Western actors to work in the Hong Kong style,” he says of himself and co-stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. “And so [martial arts choreographer] Yuen Woo-ping was very concerned that we weren’t going to be able to [pull it off]. So he trained us really hard—training us like professional athletes. And it was in the middle of that training I realized why they pay professional athletes so much money: Because professional athletes are always in pain. Not in pain sometimes—like when you go to the gym and then you’re
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