00:01Jet Li is a martial arts master of cinema, but do you know why he turned down the role of
00:06Seraph
00:07in the Matrix franchise? Seraph is played brilliantly by Colin Chow. However, the Wachowskis
00:13originally offered the role to Jet Li, who turned it down due to producers wanting to record his
00:18martial arts movements and claim them as intellectual property. In an article from
00:23the South China Morning Post, Li explains that, quote,
00:26I realized the Americans wanted me to film for three months, but be with the crew for nine.
00:32And for six months, they wanted to record and copy all of my moves into a digital library.
00:38By the end of the recording, the rights to these moves would go to them.
00:42After his lifetime martial arts training, Li understandably expressed disdain for the idea
00:47of a company digitally owning his moves. In a modern world of AI content and actors' faces
00:53scanned for digital replicas, it's wild to think how far back these ideas truly go.
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