HOLLYWOOD -- Carrie-Anne Moss spent her holidays nursing a sprained knee.
"I injured the knee working out for the Matrix shoot. It promises to
be an even more strenuous shoot than the original because we're filming
Matrix 2 and Matrix 3 back to back," explains Moss, who has been
working non-stop since she played cyber-rebel Trinity opposite Keanu Reeves
in The Matrix.
She starred opposite Val Kilmer in Red Planet, Richard Dreyfuss in The
Crew and is currently starring as the young widow in the romantic drama
Chocolat.
Later this year, she will be seen in The Memento which she says is
"a truly intriguing film. It's the story of a guy who suffers memory
loss. The story is told backwards, so the audience feels they're
experiencing his disorder.
"I play the girl and Guy Pearce plays an insurance investigator.
It's the last film you'll see me in for quite a while because The Matrix
takes over my life and career starting in March."
Moss says her character Caroline in Chocolat is a woman who "lives a
life of extreme control because it's the easiest way to get through each
day.
"When Juliette Binoche's character comes to town, Caroline learns
how to be a free spirit and live her life for the moment."
Moss says she learned early how to be a free spirit person when she was
growing up in Vancouver.
"When I was 15, I lied about my age, so I could work as a waitress.
"All the other waiters took me under their wings and it helped me
mature quickly. It's what gave me the confidence to go off to Europe to work
as a model. I was very young when I was living and working on my own in
Belgium, France and Spain."