In The Matrix (1999), the club where Neo meets Trinity is an actual BDSM club in Sydney. The extras were all patrons of the club who wore their own gear.
Huh I found this ancient article from 1998 and this seems to check out, it's called "The Hellfire Club".
The Sydney Star Observer has reported (and the film's publicist has confirmed) that the Keanu Reeves future-thriller Matrix recently wrapped a sequence at the Hellfire Club, one of Sydney's local S&M clubs. Another report in the Sydney Morning Herald described a recent shoot featuring Keanu Reeves in "black boots, black combat-cool kit [?], white shining teeth and a blood-red wound sewn into the shoulder of his battle-torn black T-shirt."
Meanwhile the cast has been receiving training from kung-fu filmmaking king Woo-ping Yuen in how to lay the leather on the ominous Bad Guy (played by Australian Hugo Weaving) who leads a legion of 'Agents' against those who are aware that the Matrix exists. Variety, meanwhile, reports that the production recently completed an elaborate stunt involving a helicopter that crashes and sends two men spinning through the air like a pendulum.
The paper also reports (possibly confirming Cinescape Online's source last week?) that the Wachowski brothers have picked up the alias "the Wacko brothers" on the set.
BoiIedFrogs on January 4th, 2021 at 19:14 UTC »
Dragula is a jam
lordofpurple on January 4th, 2021 at 19:25 UTC »
Huh I found this ancient article from 1998 and this seems to check out, it's called "The Hellfire Club".
Hey_Hoot on January 4th, 2021 at 19:36 UTC »
The Wachowskis were big into that scene. No one found it to be strange because the Cyberpunk world is a lot of leather and rock.