More than 25 years after The Matrix, Lilly Wachowski is not surprised by the right-wing misinterpretation of her and sister Lana Wachowski’s magnum opus.

After the movie’s mind-opening “red pill” accidentally became a symbol for the MAGA movement, the co-writer/co-director chalked it up to an example of “what fascism does” as she opened up about separating herself from her work.

“You have to let go of your work. People are gonna interpret it however they interpret it,” she explained on the So True with Caleb Hearon podcast. “I look at all of the crazy, mutant theories around The Matrix films and the crazy ideologies that those films helped create and I just go, ‘What are you doing? No! That’s wrong!’ But I have to let it go to some extent … You’re never gonna be able to make absolutely every person believe what you initially intended.”

In the now iconic scene from The Matrix, Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) the option between taking a blue pill, which will keep him in blissful ignorance of the simulated reality in which he’s living, and red pill, which will unplug him from the Matrix and open his eyes to the truth.

Having previously noted that the trilogy was a metaphor for the transgender experience, Wachowski told Hearon, “Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything. They appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda, for their own to obfuscate what the real message is. This is what fascism does. And so, of course, that’s going to happen.”

Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in ‘The Matrix’ (1999)

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“That is what fascism does,” she added. “It takes these things, these ideas that are generally acknowledged as questions or investigations or truisms about humanity and life, and they turn them to something else so that they remove the weight of what those things represent.”

With The Matrix‘s red pill being warped into a symbol for Donald Trump‘s followers during his presidential career, Wachowski has called out his followers, like Elon Musk and daughter Ivanka Trump, for misinterpreting the film.