Lilly Wachowski Explains Why She's Not Involved with 'The Matrix 4'

Lilly Wachowski is opening up about the upcoming fourth The Matrix movie and she’s explaining why she’s not involved in the film.

Lilly and her sister Lana created the franchise and worked together on the first three films, but only Lana returned to make the fourth installment.

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While appearing on a panel for her new Showtime series Work in Progress, Lilly was asked about why she’s not involved in The Matrix: Resurrections.

“That’s a tough one,” Lilly said (via EW). “I got out of my transition [in 2016] and was just completely exhausted because we had made Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending, and the first season of Sense8 back-to-back-to-back. We were posting one, and prepping the other at the exact same time. So you’re talking about three 100-plus days of shooting for each project, and so, coming out and just being completely exhausted, my world was like, falling apart to some extent even while I was like, you know, cracking out of my egg. So I needed this time away from this industry. I needed to reconnect with myself as an artist and I did that by going back to school and painting and stuff.”

She continued, “[Lana] had come up with this idea for another Matrix movie, and we had this talk, and it was actually — we started talking about it in between [our] dad dying and [our] mom dying, which was like five weeks apart. And there was something about the idea of going backward and being a part of something that I had done before that was expressly unappealing. And, like, I didn’t want to have gone through my transition and gone through this massive upheaval in my life, the sense of loss from my mom and dad, to want to go back to something that I had done before, and sort of [walk] over old paths that I had walked in, felt emotionally unfulfilling, and really the opposite — like I was going to go back and live in these old shoes, in a way. And I didn’t want to do that.”

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