THE MATRIX has guarded its biggest mystery until now. What was all that indecipherable green code running down the screen. Did it hold the secrets to the very essence of reality itself? Apparently ...

If you remember, the film featured a cascading green code that rained down the screen. Source of The Matrix’s Digital Rain That code has a surprising, rather weird, origin story behind it.

"I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," Whiteley reveals. There you have it: mystery solved. The digital rain equates to some delicious sushi.

"Without that code, there is no Matrix." Film and TV has a rich history of concealing through translation, Game of Thrones having previously hid a Monty Python line in its Low Valyrian language.

He said: “I like to tell everybody that The Matrix’s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes. Without that code, there is no Matrix.” ...

“I like to tell everybody that The Matrix’s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes,” Whiteley muses. To quote Neo, “ whoa. ” The recipes could literally be anything.

Munchies spotted a CNET report on the origins of the green code that waterfalls down the screen as the movie—and its successors—opens by way of Simon Whiteley.