The Wachowskis Say They're Still Best Friends
The Wachowski siblings reveal there's been no change in their working relationship since Larry's transition to Lana.
BY Jeremy Kinser
August 10 2012 12:49 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/film/2012/08/10/wachowskis-say-theyre-still-best-friends

The Wachowski siblings reveal there's been no change in their working relationship since Larry's transition to Lana, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly.

The filmmakers, best-known for the Matrix trilogy and the lesbian-themed drama Bound, discuss their forthcoming epic Cloud Atlas, which marks the first time they've worked together as Andy and Lana instead of Andy and Larry. EW asks if Lana's transition had changed the way they work together.

"We're brother and sister," Andy says.

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Andy and Lana Wachowski on 'Cloud Atlas,' Tom Tykwer, and working as brother and sister
by Adam Markovitz

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/10/cloud-atlas-lana-wachowski/

The Wachowski siblings racked up plenty of firsts while making their new movie Cloud Atlas, out Oct. 26. The new time-jumping drama — starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Hugh Grant —  is the first movie of the decade for the pair, who became some of Hollywood's most respected and elusive filmmakers after the success of the Matrix trilogy. Cloud Atlas is their first crack at adapting a novel and working with a codirector, German auteur Tom Tykwer, who wrote and shot the epic film with them. And as plenty of sites including our own have already pointed out, it's also the first time the siblings are credited as Andy and Lana, rather than Andy and Larry. Lana identifies as female and made her first public appearance in a promotional Cloud Atlas interview, sporting a neon hairstyle reminiscent of Franke Potente in Tykwer's 1998 hit Run Lola Run. "We're brother and sister," says Andy Wachowski, who talked to EW alongside Lana and Tykwer for our Fall Movie Preview (on stands now). "It's different in the way people perceive it and the way that the media perceives it. But the set is our set, and we run it like we always run it." Read ahead to see what else the trio had to say about their Cloud Atlas collaboration.