Keanu Reeves is reuniting with a former co-star for his next project — and it’s bound to be anything but bogus.
35 years after they starred in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure together, Reeves and Alex Winter will appear in Waiting for Godot on Broadway this fall.
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In a recent video conversation shared on YouTube, Reeves, Winter and director Jamie Lloyd talked about what makes this production of the classic Samuel Beckett play so spec
“It’s like being in a band together. We kind of know each other’s rhythms,” Winter, 59, said of working with Reeves, 60, again. “Being able to bring that into, onto a stage, that’s sort of our fundamental. That’s in our bones away.”
“The films that we did together, the Bill & Ted films, the language in those films had the architecture and their rhythms,” Reeves agreed. “And I think that even from early days, we approached them theatrically or even commedia dell’arte…Okay, I do something, you do something, I get the ball, you get the ball.”
“That’s why in the audition we were so vibed,” Winter remembered. “Because you didn’t get that from other actors so much.”
Lloyd, 45, called the bond between Reeves and Winter “a great strength.”
“I was so struck when we read the play for the first time about that, that instinct connection between the two of you; that kind of shorthand,” he told the actors. “The way that you know each other so intimately, I was amazed. Normally with that kind of rhythm, you have to discover that in rehearsal. You have to almost like, learn the music, like, learn a score. You were just getting that instantly.”
Reeves and Winter both expressed their appreciation for having the opportunity to work together again.
“Being able to hang out with Keanus and throw stuff at the wall, or just talk or just vibe or whatever whenever we feel like, that’s amazing,” Winter said. “What a great gift.”
“I’m really excited about all the different ways, and how you and I are going to work privately… Like, all off that,” Reeves told Winter, noting the similarities between Waiting for Godot and Bill & Ted‘s. “The dialogue [of the play] is literally, ‘Bill my friend,’ ‘Yes, Ted my friend?'”
Waiting for Godot starts preview performances at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 13, with an official opening scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 28.
