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TIL Will Smith was offered the role in The Matrix but turned down the role of Neo to make Wild Wild West, because of skepticism over the film's ambitious bullet time special effects. Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt , Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio Johnny Depp also turned down the part.

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