More than 25 years after The Matrix , Lilly Wachowski is not surprised by the right-wing misinterpretation of her and sister Lana Wachowski’s magnum opus.

After the movie’s mind-opening “red pill” accidentally became a symbol for the MAGA movement, the co-writer/co-director chalked it up to an example of “what fascism does” as she opened up about separating herself from her work.

“You have to let go of your work. People are gonna interpret it however they interpret it,” she explained on the So True with Caleb Hearon podcast. “I look at all of the crazy, mutant theories around The Matrix films and the crazy ideologies that those films helped create and I just go, ‘What are you doing? No! That’s wrong!’ But I have to let it go to some extent … You’re never gonna be able to ma

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