In one of his interviews, the producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura said that in the early stages of producing The Matrix, Neo almost ended up becoming a woman. According to him, while trying to find the right celebrity, they considered Sandra Bullock for the main role and it was even offered to her. " We sent her the script to see if she was interested in it. And if she was interested in it, we would try to make the change," he added. However, Bullock wasn’t interested in taking part in the trilogy.