Ellen Hollman Tells A Great Matrix Resurrections Behind The Scenes Story About Carrie-Anne Moss

The story begins with Hollman sitting between the two stars of the movie. "I was sitting in the hair and makeup trailer," she said to set up the story. "To my left is Keanu with Alexandra, his girlfriend, who is awesome. He's listening to his hardcore rock music and getting his hair done, I'm sitting in the chair, and then beside me is Carrie-Anne, getting her hair done." Hollman has naturally long, blonde, curly hair, which needed to be cut off for the role and dyed "black hole" dark. "I felt like I was about to go into the guillotine," Hollman said with a laugh, "because as a woman, your hair is like an extension of you, it is part of your identity, and that is something that I was willing to sacrifice."

The hairstylist put Hollman's long hair in a ponytail and chopped it off, and Hollman had a brief moment of panic –- one subsided by the original Trinity: "It was like this gasp, and I had a hard time breathing. Then, all of a sudden I feel this hand holding me, and I look over and Carrie-Anne's like, 'It's going to be okay. I was where you once were, and it's going to be okay.' I'm like, 'Thank you Carrie-Anne Moss, thank you, Trinity!'"

Hollman promptly thought about this "surreal moment," saying that Moss "had such an incredible soothing presence. She is a deity among mere mortals ... she's like a lioness, and she just really calms me."

"The Matrix Resurrections" is now playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.