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Long live The Matrix

Actor Keanu Reeves, who stars in the science-fiction franchise, says the idea of training actors to do action was introduced by the 1999 film

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When science-fiction action movie The Matrix was released in 1999, its high-flying martial arts sequences were unlike anything audiences used to Hollywood films had seen.
Star Keanu Reeves, 57, tells The Straits Times in an online interview that the movie helped end the idea that stars could fake the fight.
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