Madonna turned down appearing on 'The Matrix' (and regrets it)

The star also did not want to be Catwoman or have a leading role in 'Showgirls'.

The Queen of Pop has succeeded in every creative field that she has set out to do, so that at this point in her career there seems to be only one thing left for her to do: bring her own life to the movies, and on her own terms. she. Madonna is currently involved in the preparations for an autobiographical film written and directed by her ("There is no one on this planet who can write or direct a film about me better than me," she has declared with great discretion), so that It has been a good opportunity to remember the ups and downs of his career, and he recently went on television with some of them fresh. Specifically, to the Tonight Show presented by Jimmy Fallon, where this Thursday he began to review the great mistakes of her cinematographic facet.

This autobiography will not mean Madonna's jump to directing (she has already played this role on two previous occasions), but it is possible that it echoes in some way the big mistake she made at the end of the 90s, when she refused to appear in a quirky movie called The Matrix. “I turned down a role in The Matrix, can you believe it? I wanted to kill myself”, he confided to Fallon, directly paralleling the lamentations of another star, Will Smith: this actor also refused to appear in the Wachowski sisters' film, with the aggravating circumstance that he did so to star in Wild Wild West, a great failure of critics and audiences that he recently described as the biggest mistake of his career.

Instead of The Matrix, Madonna didn't do any westerns with giant spiders, but that doesn't mean she hurts him any less. “It's like one of the best movies ever made. A tiny part of me regrets just that moment in my life.” The star has not come to identify the character that the Wachowskis had offered her, nor has she commented on the imminence of the fourth installment of the saga, Matrix Resurrections, which opens on December 22. She has, for her part, revealed other roles she regrets not taking on during the '90s: playing Catwoman in Tim Burton's Batman Returns, and one of the leads in Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls.

"I saw both and I regret rejecting Catwoman, that's also half angry," declares Madonna, without directly referring to Verhoeven's eccentric film (perhaps because she considers it a relief to have stayed out of one of the most discussed films of that decade). The role of Catwoman ended up in the hands of Michelle Pfeiffer, later being interpreted for the cinema by Anne Hathaway (in The Dark Knight Rises) and Zoë Kravitz (in the next The Batman that opens on March 4, 2022).