Alex Winter revealed that acting onstage with longtime pal Keanu Reeves after 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was “very trippy.”
As Alex and Keanu reunited after more than 3 decades for the Broadway play Waiting for Godot, Alex said during an appearance on The Small Bow podcast on Wednesday, that their friendship helped them during the acting and as they “give each other space.”
“Not in a serious way, but I think we both laughed about it, like, ‘Will we both be friends when we come out the other end?'” he continued.
Alex also noted that acting onstage was “stressful, but they had “each other.”
”And pretty early on it was like ‘Great, I’m doing this with someone who I get along with, that’s really helpful in this situation,'” he added.
And as the storyline of the “play about an intimate relationship with a long-term friend,” Alex added they “can use so much stuff.”
“There are times when I’m looking at him on stage and he’s Estragon and he’s Keanu and I’m thinking about stuff that happened between us almost 40… 35 years ago,” said Winter. “The dialogue I’m saying, the emotions that I have to conjure up, and they are literally about this guy, and it was very trippy and uncommon.”
As per the synopsis of the play, Alex’s character, Vladimir and Keanu’s character Estragon, two homeless people, wait uncertainly for a person named Godot who never arrives.
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