Rain hampers filming

   LOS ANGELES (KRT)—It’s the day of the final showdown in the The Matrix Revolutions between Neo and Agent Smith. The problem: actors Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving realized they were flying blind.
   “On the first take where Smith and Neo fight, the rain came down and we realized that we couldn’t see each other,” explained Reeves. “But we had fought so much together that we actually didn’t really have to see each other, which was kind of a cool thing.”
   The scene, shot entirely in the rain, was so wet that the actors had full wet suits underneath their costumes.
   “It was like a ton of water a minute or something like that, so we were wet for a couple weeks … six weeks,” Reeves added.
   In the end, the trouble was well worth it, as the scene is one of the most visually spectacular in the film.
   The Matrix Revolutions opens this week.
   The film is being released in an IMAX version at the same time. See related story adjacent to this story.