Overview
- Speaking at the Marrakech Film Festival, Fishburne said Yuen Woo-ping trained the cast like professional athletes, leaving them in constant pain during preparation for the 1999 film.
- He noted the payoff of the regimen, saying the choreography remains in his body as lasting muscle memory more than 25 years later.
- Fishburne described his acting approach as aiming to surprise audiences, citing transformative turns such as Jimmy Jump in King of New York and Furious Styles in Boyz N the Hood.
- During technical glitches at the festival talk, he kept the room calm with a measured, fatherly demeanor.
- At a recent Matrix reunion event, he said he reached out to Lana Wachowski about Resurrections without success and added he would only consider returning as Morpheus if a new film is truly great; he also argued the original reshaped modern sci‑fi filmmaking.