Real talk for a sec.
I am pretty sure that on 12/22, at the beginning of watching that movie, I'm going to have a moment.
When I say "a moment" I mean I'm going to have a minute of:
"Oh... wait, this isn't right... that's Keanu, and that's Carrie-Anne... those are NOT Neo and Trinity. They are just... NOT. Something is so wrong right now."
I think that is going to happen to me, to my brain, and here's why: I have spent the past 20 years of my life with a clear image of who Neo and Trinity are, and throughout all these years they have staid that way in my mind. I've also very closely followed both Keanu and Carrie-Anne's careers, so I'm used to see them portraying other characters and viewing them as those characters with no problem at all... but Neo and Trinity are (to this day) on a pedestal for me. They're just... they have their own existence in my mind.
Idk if I'm explaining myself here, it's complicated, but I think I see them this way because at the time I was really young and I had my fair share of problems irl that I clung to them almost as a lifeline.
So... I really hope that this moment I KNOW is coming won't last long and won't make my first viewing weird for me... it most likely won't but I have to say I'm curious to see how I'm gonna react, I honestly still don't know, it's so strange.