Did Hugo Weaving do the fight scenes in The Matrix 1, 2, & 3?
I mean I've seen him in V for Vendetta and the fight scenes were done by a few other stunt doubles. I know the copies are not the real Weaving, but I was wondering about the fights themselves.
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Weaving and the other major actors spent months learning stunt choreography before filming began on both projects (the two sequels were filmed at the same time). So they did a large amount of the actual stunt work, though not all. (Stuntmen were called in for particularly dangerous effects.) In the Matrix Reloaded Burly Brawl sequence, Weaving is always the focal/central Smith if there are many in the frame-- the others are readily identified as stuntmen if you look closely. The final part of that sequence-- once Neo starts fighting with the pole-- is all CG. You probably know that the "background Smiths" in the final Matrix Revolutions fights were dummies.
In V for Vendetta, Hugo didn't have time to learn the stunts (he replaced another actor after filming began). David Leitch did V's stunts. (He also did some Smith stunts in the Matrix films.)
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Weaving and the other major actors spent months learning stunt choreography before filming began on both projects (the two sequels were filmed at the same time). So they did a large amount of the actual stunt work, though not all. (Stuntmen were called in for particularly dangerous effects.) In the Matrix Reloaded Burly Brawl sequence, Weaving is always the focal/central Smith if there are many in the frame-- the others are readily identified as stuntmen if you look closely. The final part of that sequence-- once Neo starts fighting with the pole-- is all CG. You probably know that the "background Smiths" in the final Matrix Revolutions fights were dummies.
In V for Vendetta, Hugo didn't have time to learn the stunts (he replaced another actor after filming began). David Leitch did V's stunts. (He also did some Smith stunts in the Matrix films.)
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