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.

Will Smith smiles big at the premiere of “Gemini Man”

“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.

The cast of “The Matrix” enjoying the film’s success

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.