Carrie-Anne Moss learned to ride a motorcycle with NO HELMET for this. Hollywood is unhinged.
This thirty-minute documentary follows the Wachowski sisters and the film's crew through production on the film's famed highway chase sequence. We get interviews with the visual effects supervisors, the stunt coordinators and even are taken through aspects of pre-production and planning for the scene. Then the documentary moves into production, the scariest aspect of which is certainly Carrie Anne-Moss trying to learn to ride a motorcycle good enough to do so safely without helmet for the scene. We also watch as the stretch of freeway used in the film is being built.
Practical Effects
They BUILT a fake freeway. Not CGI. A whole highway.
Stunts
Moss's motorcycle training will give you secondhand anxiety.
Direction
Wachowskis' micromanagement is fascinating and mildly terrifying.
Director
Josh Oreck
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'freeway' was built on a decommissioned naval base in Alameda, California, and cost over $2.5 million.
This doc reveals the Wachowskis' obsessive hands-on approach—John Gaeta mentions they storyboarded frame-by-frame like animators, which explains why the sequels feel so visually controlled yet narratively chaotic.
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