Will Smith is not the only Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg had to convince, there is another star who rejected a film thrice ...

Despite a cryptic Instagram post, insiders have insisted Will Smith will not appear in the next 'Matrix' movie.

Turns out, it wasn’t the whole “saving the world” thing that turned him off ... It all came down to his past experience with Wild Wild West. In the film, Smith played Jim West, a wild ...

As Will Smith's Monday Instagram post mentioned, he turned down the opportunity to star as Neo in The Matrix franchise. It ultimately became Keanu Reeves' role in the 1999 action sci-fi ...

Smith turned it down. He chose Wild Wild West, believing it would be a better fit for him at the time. But the question remains: What would The Matrix have been like with Will Smith as Neo?

Will Smith may be entering "The Matrix." At least, that’s what the Oscar winner hinted at in a mysterious video posted on social media Jan. 6, which addressed his decision to turn down the lead ...

In 2019, Smith posted a YouTube video to explain why he turned down a role in The Matrix to star in Wild Wild West. After making Men in Black, a movie Smith initially passed on, the Wachowskis ...

“In 1997, the Wachowskis offered Will Smith the role of Neo in ‘The Matrix.’ Smith turned it down,” Smith’s video post, which he uploaded Monday, read. “He chose ‘Wild Wild West ...

Follow the white rabbit.” “I’m not proud of it, but it’s the truth: I did turn down Neo in The Matrix,” Smith said in a 2019 video posted to his YouTube channel titled “Why I Turned ...

“Smith turned it down. He chose "Wild Wild West," believing it was a better fit for him at the time. But the question remains: What would "The Matrix" have been like with Will Smith as Neo?