Will Smith may be choosing between the red and blue pill, but the Oscar-winning actor isn’t entering the Matrix for a movie. Warner Bros. previously announced a fifth “Matrix” installment ...

Will Smith Stars in ‘The Matrix’ Parody 27 Years After Rejecting Neo Role. Watch Smith in the music video for "Beautiful Scars," where the actor-rapper finally gets to take the red pill.

Will Smith explained how confusion over “The Matrix” screenplay led him to pass on the role of Neo after a weird pitch by the directors.

In any case, Smith and Kilmer aren’t the only casting near-misses from those early production days, when the many now-iconic elements of The Matrix were still mere matters of conjecture.

Laurence Fishburne hasn’t seen Will Smith play Neo in the “Matrix”-inspired music video for Smith’s single “Beautiful Scars” with rapper Big Sean.