- Well, it's time for my first guest.
One is a writer, director, an actor
whom you've seen in Freaked and Lost Boys.
The other is an actor,
producer and musician
who has blown us away in the
John Wick and Matrix franchises
along with many other movies
talking about you Lake House.
That's right.
It's a good flick.
I'm just saying.
I'm talking about Bill
Preston and Ted Theodore Logan
together they're wild stallions.
Bill and Ted Face the music isn't theaters
and on demand right now.
Let's give it up for Alex
Winter and Keanu Reeves.
How are you doing?
I'm so good.
What's up Keanu, how you doing?
Well where are you each calling from?
Alex, I'll start with you.
- I am in beautiful downtown
South Pasadena, California.
- Oh, right, that is literally
where my career started in
L.A at an idol audition.
I was there so often.
That's so funny.
I don't think I've been back
since then, that's amazing.
Well, where are you calling from Keanu?
- I am in Berlin, hot stem Germany.
- Oh my gosh that's so funny.
My sister and I were saying
how many times we've been to Berlin?
We've been to Berlin,
like a thousand times.
Every time I go to Germany
for a private event, it's in Berlin.
I love Berlin though.
Germany is so beautiful.
- Yeah, a great city, great people.
- So I mean, y'all both,
everybody's been in quarantine.
Have y'all learned anything
new about yourselves?
I feel like we're all kind
of, we're having to dive
into ourselves 'cause we're
forced to with isolation.
So have anything new
happening in y'all's world?
Oh well, the thinking man,
I'm want to know your answer Keanu.
- Yeah, it's a pose I struck once.
- Okay.
- It's very popular.
- It is.
It's a statue, but it's fine.
- Yeah, I mean, you find resilience.
I think there was this kind of hope going
into the early days of it.
Everyone took it very seriously.
I took it very seriously, but
there was a hope we'd come
through it much sooner than
we obviously are going to.
And immediate huge concern
for family and friends
who were very vulnerable to this thing
that was just like overnight,
everything kind of locked
and loaded it into that world.
I've got kids, so I immediately
was very badly instructing
them in school and.
- Why I know I'm like,
gosh, my mom is the teacher.
I'm not the teacher.
Like this is not my lane.
- And now I'm a really bad camp counselor
so I know what I'm not good at.
I found many things
I'm really not good at,
- You know, honesty is the best.
And being an honest
parent is the best kind.
That's what I say.
Well that's have you been doing
anything Keanu, anything
other than, or have you been,
you haven't obviously
been working on matrix
the whole time because
of us being locked down.
So have you done anything cool?
- I was in Germany and then
everything was shutting down
when I moved back to Los Angeles
and I was there for about eight weeks.
I maintained training with the people
that I was working with in Berlin.
So we had a private gym facility.
- Wow.
- A couple of instructors kept training
kind of so keeping the role alive.
I've been back in Germany
now for, I guess a month.
So when I was in L.A, it
was great to spend time
with friends and family
'cause I've been away
for a little bit and also kind
of take some motorcycle rides.
And it also want to kind
of keep working on working,
you know, it's just people
were home and was able
to just keep developing
things and be creative.
- Yeah, I as well started
this pandemic off in a gym
and then I slowly wasn't in a gym.
I was like, you know what?
Everything's going to crap my die.
I'm not going to spend my time doing this.
- Greetings my excellent friends.
- Do we know you?
- I'm Kelly.
- Wait you're Rufus's daughter.
- I'm and I've been wanting
to meet you my whole life.
- It must be very disappointing.
- Not at all.
We have a problem gentlemen potentially
a very serious problem.
- About the music?
- About the music, they
just want to talk to you.
- Dude, I got a very bad feeling.
- It'd be fine, Ted.
They totally love us in the future, dude.
- Welcome back everybody.
I'm here with Alex
Winter and Keanu Reeves.
That was a look at their new movie Bill
and Ted Face the music.
So well, we've waited almost 30 years
for this third Bill and Ted installment.
So how did it end up coming together?
'Cause that's a long time.
You probably thought that
wasn't going to happen, right?
- Yeah.
- I'll start a start.
I'll start with you Keanu.
Let's start with you.
What it, how did it come about?
- It came about, I think
because the writers at Solomon
and Chris Matheson had
an idea for how the story
could continue and had a
passion for telling that story.
And that was about eight, nine years ago.
And I think that really
was the launch, you know,
and they came over and met
with Alex and I and said,
"Hey, you guys want to do this?"
And so I think they're really, you know,
they kind of broke the
champagne bottle on pitch.
- Yeah, they spearheaded it.
So Alex, what did you think,
were you kind of like, okay,
or like maybe leave it alone.
Like what were you thinking?
- Well, for 25 years it was,
let's leave it alone, you know.
(narrators laughing)
We were good with that.
You know, we love making the movies.
I don't think Keanu
and I really felt a need to make a third.
But you know to Keanu's point the guys,
we've all been really good
friends all this time.
And, you know, I've seen a
lot of add over the years,
Chris lives further away but, you know,
so we would talk over the
years, but they had an idea
that just seems so sweet and genuine and,
but also rich and comic possibility.
And the idea kind of baked
into the idea of it was the
way to play them our age.
And I think for me, that was the key.
- I love that.
- Yeah, I just listened to it,
thought okay, this actually works.
Even if it takes us another 10 years
to make it, which it did.
This works with us older.
Like I see how to come
at these guys, it's not.
Let's pretend we're 19, 20 years old.
You know, it's not like,
let's just open the door
and it's been closed since
the last time we saw them.
It gave us room as actors
to evolve the characters
and it was also very funny
at its heart the whole idea.
So, you know, it was worth trying to do,
but it was hard to get it done.
- I think that that's clever though.
It's more clever to go the
real route of like y'all aging
because we've all aged as fans with you.
So I think it's, you know, I'm
saying, I think everybody's
on that same ride and we're
all at different places.
Our humor is different.
Everything is, you know, and
I think that that's cool too,
that there's the younger aspect in it too.
So I think it's really brilliant.
So you, is it true that you guys met
at the original Bill
and Ted like audition?
Is that when you first met?
- Yeah.
- Oh my gosh, and you seem like so close.
That's amazing.
I mean, it's amazing to
be a part of something
that is a huge franchise and
people are really into it
and you're talented, it pays off.
But at the same time, it's kinda cool
to like have these cultivated
friendships for that long.
That's a really remarkable thing.
Not every cast gets along, you know.
- It's you don't often
times, you know, you might go
through and experience having
a wonderful experience,
but not maintain a friendship.
And Alex and I have certainly done that.
And yeah, we met at the
audition, the crucible,
it was an audition process
that I had never experienced
and have never experienced
since where you had.
And this might not be so accurate,
but I remembered like 10
actors and everybody kind
of playing the roles
and changing, you know,
kind of you played Ted, he
played Bill and all of that.
Alex and I just, I don't know.
I think we had, what do you think out,
like we kind of had to be both
played them kind of straight.
- We did.
- What a cool thing.
So young people today
still love Bill and Ted.
Why do you think it
crosses over generations?
Do you think it's because, I mean I guess
I think it's because the
purity of the characters
and just how, you know, raw it is.
And I also think as a
young kid that watched it,
I found it cool.
How, you know, historical
moments were kind of brought
in that I honestly never
paid attention to in school.
You know, it's like watching Hamilton now,
like, you know, on Broadway.
I didn't know a bunch of that.
I didn't know, like a lot of
those players 'cause you know,
you're a kid and you're
like, this is not important
of this will not help
me get money at my job.
So, you know, do you think it kind of was,
what do you think it was?
- I mean I think that the
character is often get referred
to as donors or you know,
surfer, stoners or whatever.
And they're really not there
they're very, very innocent.
And, you know, what we're
tapping into is kind of like
what it was like to be nine
or 10 years old and have
a super best friend that you
went into imaginative worlds
within your backyard or out
on the street or whatever.
And, you know, for certain
people, they grow up still kind
of in lockstep with that friend.
So I think that there's
kind of two and I don't know
for sure, but like I know
when playing them without
what I find very sweet is
that they are very childlike
and they are really good friends.
So it's sort of a representation
of both the childlike innocence
of youth and what it's like
to have a really, really tight friendship
and a lot of kids really
respond to that I think.
- Definitely.
- And they're fun, there's
historical gears and.
- Adventures.
- Yeah, and outrageous and
some bright colors, language
and yeah, and I think, you
know, I mean, and they have
the language of the callback,
you know, the whole idea
of like playing air guitar
or, you know, feeling happy
and playing air guitar or going excellent.
You know, something's bad,
bodacious so no, I'm heinous.
That's kind of fun to do.
And I think, you know, kids
even naturally, you know,
will hook into certain
words and have words
that they can use with
their friends to express,
you know, like a kind of short hand.
- Yeah.
- And I think maybe they see
weird way maybe not cautiously,
but themselves in weird
way like, "Oh wow."
Like that they're doing that.
And I do that.
And also, you know, they're
all they're very fun.
