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If The Matrix and Being John Malkovich were being pitched today,” says Cho, “they’d be pitched as television shows.” Cho, like many actors of his generation, now works in both film and television—a situation that some performers didn’t find too satisfying in 1999. “Television used to be the graveyard for filmmakers, actors, and writers,” notes Brendan Fraser, who earned some of the best reviews of his career for the small-screen roles he took on starting in the midaughts.
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Brian Raftery (Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen)