Matrix Moms: Jada Pinkett-Smith and Carrie Ann Moss
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When you think of The Matrix, you usually think of Neo: Keanu Reeves. He's certainly the superstar, but Neo wouldn't be half the man he is without Trinity (Carrie Anne Moss).
In fact, there was a trio of very powerful, and empowered, women in 2003's Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions (Moss, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Monica Belluci). Since those movies came out, two of the stars have become mothers for the first time.
Monica, who most recently starred as Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ, celebrated the birth of her daughter Deva with her husband, French director Vincent Cassell, on September 12, 2004. Carrie Anne had her baby, a son, in September of '03.
Jada has two children (a son, Jaden Christopher Syre, and a daughter, Willow Camille Reign) with her husband, Will Smith. (By the way, in Jada's next film, the animated Madagascar, she gives voice to a pregnant hippo named Gloria.)
What with The Ultimate Matrix Collection Limited Edition Collector's Set (The Matrix / Reloaded / Revolutions / Revisited / The Animatrix) (which came out Dec. 7, 2004) She Knows thought it might be fun to revisit an interview we did with a (then pregnant) Carrie Ann, and Jada on the set of The Matrix Reloaded.
She Knows: Tell us about how love has changed your life.
Carrie Anne Moss: Yes, I'm having a baby. It's going great, I'm so on a whole other part of my journey.
SK: While you were filming the Matrix movies, did you get some practice with Jada's kids?
CAM: Yeah. I'm really interested in watching how people live their lives. I've always wanted to write a book on a day in the life of different kinds of people. I think it's so interesting: How do people spend their Sundays, or how do they spend their workday? One of the things I loved about working on the Matrix was watching Jada with her children. How this professional woman with this high-powered husband and she's this successful actress herself, how does she manage? How does she have two children and continue to work? She was very inspiring to watch her with her kids. They're such beautiful kids and just does such a great job. I can only hope that I can.
SK: Did you get any advice from her?
CAM: One thing she really showed me was that your kids come in being who they are. You really have to.
SK: Jada, how has having the kids changed your romantic relationship with Will?
Jada Pinkett-Smith: Oh, you're trying to go there, huh? Well, do you have any kids?
SK: No. Just cats.
JPS: Okay, well, you know what, I'm going to school you in something. It does. It does change your romantic relationship because they are in the bed with you all the time. But it changes it in a very exciting way because then you have to find new and wonderful places to make love, which is great. Where I was used to being in the bedroom and comfortable, now it's in the closet, or on steps, in the bathroom, or you know. It's exciting though, but it does change it because they're usually right there with you all the time.
SK: How many kids fit in the bed?
JPS: There's four of us that fit in the bed at the same time. Willow, Jaden, myself and Will. If Trey's home [Trey is Smith's son from his first marriage], I'm just glad thank God he's 10 and he's outgrown that. He understands it's not cool to be in the bedroom anymore, but it took him a while. I think we'd literally just gotten Trey out of the bed where he would lay… he would either get the blow-up mattress and lay on the blow-up mattress or across the bottom of the bed. But now he's like 'It's not cool to be in there. Let the little kids be in there with y'all.'
SK: How do you keep your kids grounded?
JPS: They have to clean their rooms. They have to do all the stuff that I had to do when I was growing up. That's how -- if we're not at the Kids Choice Awards or we're not at the premieres, it's the same regular stuff that goes on in everybody else's home. It's like 'Listen, we go to the movies, we're going to stand in this line like everybody else. We're going to get our tickets like everybody else instead of getting whisked in the back. We're not going to take Daddy today. Daddy's going to stay home.'
SK: Do you have to do that with Daddy?
JPS: In certain areas it is [tough]. Where we live, people are over it, like 'Hey, whatever.' So, we can do it in those areas and it really just depends on where we are. There are some people that are really cool about it and some people that are just insane about it.
SK: Where can't you go?
JPS: Disneyland. Even though he went this year. He went this year [2003] for Willow's birthday party. We had a Disneyland trip in Florida. We went during the week. Daddy took the boys and I took the girls.
