“Whenever we weren’t shooting, we’d be jamming”: Alex Winter says he and Keanu Reeves would play bass together while filming Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Alex Winter has shared how he and co-star Keanu Reeves would kill time on the set of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The 61-year-old film star and documentarian explains in an interview with The Guardian how he and Reeves would jam together.
Fielding questions submitted by members of the public, one fan asks Winter how fun it is to work with Reeves and what they got up to between scenes.
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The fan asks: “Which Keanu Reeves was the most fun to work with: in Waiting for Godot on Broadway; as Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan to your Bill S Preston, Esq in Bill & Ted; or as mutant Ortiz the Dog Boy when you directed him in Freaked? And following Waiting for Godot, what wildly inappropriate classic should Bill & Ted tackle next?”
Winter responds: “I just love performing with Keanu. The funny thing is we both play bass, so all through the first Bill & Ted, whenever we weren’t shooting, we’d be jamming.
“Keanu and I both have theatre backgrounds and have studied Shakespeare, so I’d like to do some Shakespeare, maybe something like Measure for Measure. There’s a few that we’ve discussed. I’m not sure if we’ll get there, but who knows? Never say never.”
Winter’s musical background goes a step further than jamming with his co-stars, as the film star also directed a documentary on legendary musician Frank Zappa in 2020.
The documentary took Winter five years to make. Summarising Zappa in an interview with Vanity Fair, Winter said: “Here was this radical, long-haired freak, but also a patriarchal, macho, relatively conservative Italian dad….
“Now that he’s gone, and we live in such a politically fraught world, I see fans try to take ownership of Zappa. The far-left take ownership, the libertarians take ownership, and I think he was all of it and none.
“He was, though, rabidly anti-Bush and anti-Reagan. He maintained a powerful anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist streak, and pro-citizens rights. It carried through his whole life.”
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