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Hugo Weaving: Why the Alt-Right’s Got ‘The Matrix’ All Wrong

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The Australian screen star opens up to Marlow Stern about Trump’s narcissism, Guy Fawkes masks, and how men’s rights activists have co-opted “The Matrix.”

Every so often, Hugo Weaving will slip into soliloquy—and when he does, it’s hard not to picture his Agent Smith, the AI-antagonist of The Matrix.

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