The other character was the lead!"
He added, I was like, ‘No … just,Ineed to kill the bad guy!'"
Smith would clarify this further in a video he posted toYouTube.

“The Wachowskis came in and they had only done one movie,” Smith recalled.
“They came in and made a pitch for ‘The Matrix.’
As it turns out, they’re geniuses.

Smith would also admit confusion around the whole bullet moving in real-time thing.
“This is the actual pitch they made,” Smith shared.
“‘We’re thinking like, imagine you’re in a fight.
You jump, but imagine if you could stop jumping in the middle of the jump.
But then people could see around you 360 while you stop jumping.