{"id":110586,"date":"2019-10-17T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=110586"},"modified":"2019-10-17T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:39:18","slug":"the-matrix-4-adds-jessica-henwick-to-the-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-matrix-4-adds-jessica-henwick-to-the-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix 4 adds Jessica Henwick to the cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em><strong>Matrix 4<\/strong><\/em> casting news just won&#8217;t quit, with the latest addition to the ensemble being Jessica Henwick. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/10\/matrix-4-jessica-henwick-cast-iron-fist-game-of-thrones-actress-1202760995\/\">Deadline<\/a>, she is in talks for a lead role in the film.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes shortly after casting announcements for Neil Patrick Harris and Jada Pinkett Smith, who will be reprising her role as\u00a0<em><strong>Matrix\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>franchise regular Niobe.<\/p>\n<p>English actress Henwick is best known for playing Colleen Wing in\u00a0<em><strong>Marvel&#8217;s Iron Fist<\/strong><\/em>, as well as X-wing pilot Jessika Pava in\u00a0<em><strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and Nymeria Sand in\u00a0<em><strong>Game Of Thrones<\/strong><\/em>. We&#8217;re sure her action skills will come into play somehow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/source-2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/source-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new cast members join\u00a0Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, who will be reprising their\u00a0<em><strong>Matrix\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>trilogy roles as Neo and Trinity respectively.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Matrix 4\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is being directed by franchise co-creator Lana Wachowski, from a script written by Wachowski, Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell.\u00a0The film will be the first in the series that Wachowski hasn\u2019t worked on with her sister Lily.<\/p>\n<p>Lana Wachowski is also producing with her long-time collaborator Grant Hill, and filming is expected to begin at the start of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Matrix 4\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>will hit cinemas in 2022. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Fist&#8217;s Jessica Henwick has joined The Matrix 4 in a lead role <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[6565],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-17-at-11.35.48.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127610,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110586\/revisions\/127610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}