Counselor West?

A random tidbit: Cornel West is gonna be in the next two Matrix films!?!?

I, too, couldn't believe this, but apparently it was reported in the Washington Post a week and a half ago:

[Cornel West] even surfaced down in Sydney for the filming of "Matrix 2" and "Matrix 3," where he morphed into a character called Counselor West. He got a part in the movies, you see, at the invitation of Larry and Andy Wachowski, the movies' writer-director team, who'd read West's early philosophical writings and wanted to incorporate him into the script....

(NB: Originally noted by Nick Danger, via Instapundit.)