Taking her place alongside Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley and Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Moss played Trinity in “The Matrix” , defying gravity with a martial-arts ballet.
22, “Resurrections” required the now-54-year-old Moss to undergo weeks of intensive training before embarking on a demanding shoot that took the cast to San Francisco and Germany, among other locations.
Additionally, she had to shoulder the tremendous weight of expectation — it’s exceedingly rare for a woman over 50 to be both an action star and the romantic lead in a major studio film.
I always wanted to play characters that were so different than me, yet when she showed me that, it gave me permission to step into what I did well.
I thought, At the end of my life, will it matter to me that I have another movie on my résumé or will it matter to me that I held my babies? It was an easy decision.
Lately, you’ve been working in television — as an F.B.I.
It also helped me to see that I could do it, I could leave and I could work, and it all could coexist together.
It doesn’t happen often, so to get to do it again, to be in that creative space with all these amazing artists.
Someone would take a little video, and I’d look at it and be like, “Oh my God, I don’t look cool at all!” I would just have to constantly relax that part of my brain.
When I watch the first, second and third, the moments that aren’t me is actually too powerful for someone as inexperienced as me.
It was like playing a different person with in there — but can’t we all relate to that? I’m not the same person I was at 30.