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Keanu Reeves didn’t just have to push his body to the limits to film “The Matrix Reloaded”–he also had to stretch his mind.
The directors not only wanted Reeves to do stunts and fight scenes, but they also actually asked the former “Bill and Ted” star to read a really hard book. Reeves took a most excellent stab at digesting the “Simulacra and Simulation” by French postmodernist sociologist/gynecologist/
anesthesiologist Jean Baudrillard, who argues that society is just one big fake.
And here’s what came out of Mr. Reeves’ noggin: “They wanted me to understand the aspect of simulation and reality and get a feel for what happens digitally in other systems that resemble and can create naturalistic elements.”
Whoa.
