- We've got Keanu Reeves
and Alex winter in
the zoom room.
Let's also welcome their co-stars from
Bill and Ted, Face The music right now,
on the line are Jayma
Mays, Aaron Hayes and
Bridget Lundy-Paine.
All right,
what's up everybody?
- Hello.
- Hi.
- So can you explain who you all play
in the movie?
- Oh, I can.
I can.
I can.
I know this one.
Um, uh, yes.
Well,
I play Princess Joanna
in the film and I will
keep saying princess as much as possible
in this segment.
Um,
yeah,
I play,
I play the wife of Bill, Alex's wife,
mother of Ted.
And,
I'm the sister, of
my sister, princess.
You're down there for me.
I don't know where she
is for everybody else.
- Yeah.I play Princess Elizabeth,
wife to Ted,
uh, and,
and mother to Bridget over there and uh,
yeah,
that's who I play.
- Okay. Awesome.
Bridget, who do you play?
- Um,
I'm Bridget.
I play Billy,
who's Ted's kid and Sam who is not here.
Um,
plays Thea.
Who's Bill's kid.
Um,
she's traveling.
I believe she's literally on a plane right
this minute, so,
- Oh my God,
and this seems like such a fun cast.
So, um
Jayma I'll ask you,
this is quite the iconic franchise
to be a part of.
Did you grow up on the originals?
- Oh yeah.
I mean,
yeah, a hundred percent.
I mean,
my entire generation, grew
up on these originals,
You know it like,
shaped our social interactions, you know
like I'm from the Appalachians,
So the Bill and Ted speak was like
a foreign language to us,
but it totally tried to
start changing the way
everyone was interacting
with good and excellent
and no,
yeah,
you would be living under
a rock if you didn't.
- Agreed.
Agreed.
Aaron,
what about you?
Like what,
what,
what about you? Did you
grow up watching these?
- Yes, of course.
There was like,
I don't know what went on in my childhood,
but my brother and I like
didn't have activities.
What we did is we watched movies and we
watched televisions in the summer
and we just got to,
it was like,
you know, questionable parenting,
but,
- It ended up all right,
- Loved these movies.
And also we played a tone
of board games and so
it was always referencing the like,
my favorite scene of the
second one is when they play
all the board games with death.
And it's like best three of the five,
like, it was always like
quoted around with me
and my brother.
So, I think he was
probably the first person
I called when I booked this movie.
I was like,
- That's so cool.
I guess you're right though.
It is such a nostalgic thing for so many,
cause it's such a major
thing and both movies are
such a major,
major thing in pop culture.
Um, that's,
it's gotta be a little intimidating
to be a part of,
but also just like so rad to be a part of,
cause it's something that you love,
like since you were,
you were younger and I,
Bridget you're,
uh,
you're probably a little
young to have seen
these in theaters.
So, um
you hadn't seen them,
but did you watch them
as soon as you've got
kind of the role?
Yeah,
I did.
I hadn't seen them when I was growing up,
which is crazy to me
because it really feels
like something I would like that
shaped my personality.
Um,
but I hadn't seen it.
Um,
and then,
and then I got it and then I,
and then I watched it and I was very,
very excited and I have
this fantasy that I like
wanted to not watch it
and just have you guys
tell me about it,
but then I thought that would be weird.
- Bridget I love you.
- That's what I did.
It worked really well.
- That's an awesome answer.
Um,
alright.
Well,
Alex,
clearly it's had a
lasting effect on people.
Um,
so at what moment did you
realize the first movie
was just such a phenomenon?
- Um, Well,
the,
we made the first movie,
uh,
and then,
uh,
the studio that we made
it for went bankrupt
and it was shelved and
Keanu and I were told
that it was never going to come out, ever.
Uh,
and so we had, kind of moved on
taking a deep breath and said,
okay, well that was a fun experience.
Uh,
and then it suddenly got picked up and
kind of put out.
uh,
and I think I was in Austin shooting
a music video, the
weekend that it came out.
And, uh,
I walked into like a road house,
I think,
just to get like a water or something.
I wasn't eating there.
And the whole place,
like hundreds of picnic
tables just went nuts.
Um,
- As Texans,
we love it,
- Like looking over my shoulder.
Um,
and, uh,
yeah,
and,
and I've been running from it ever since.
- Running to it.
- To it.
To it.
Yeah sorry.
- So Keanu, what about you?
Cause I mean,
I know a lot of times, you know,
in our careers,
all of us here,
you'll be in the bubble
of something and you're
not really realize the
impact of it or how broad
that the scope, like
how broad its reach is.
Um,
what about you,
when did you kind of first
realize this is like a big deal?
- I think it's when you're just walking it
when you're kind of just
walking down the street
and people are yelling out of cars at you.
Dude, the excellent.
Party on!
Dude, the excellent.
Party on! Yeah.
- That's me,
you know that right.
That I'm the one doing that.
- Yeah.
It's actually,
they paid your family to make
you feel good about yourself.
Um,
so I mean,
for,
for all,
all y'all Jayma,
Aaron, Bridget, be honest,
who is the bigger diva
on set Alex or Keanu?
- I can't answer that
until I know if the movie
has been locked and if there's a chance,
I could get cut out.
- She's like,
wait.
No,
I have heard though,
honestly,
that both of y'all are just such delights
to work with.
You're so respectful.
You're so kind,
you go out of your way.
That's honestly why I felt bold
enough to ask the question.
Um,
but that's so awesome.
Like, just people that
have been in the business
and you,
you know,
um, done what you've done
with your career. It's,
very easy for people to
drink their own kool aid
We all know those people,
but you still realize you're
not on a different level.
I think I feel like a lot of people that
gets lost on,
do you agree?
Oh,
everyone's afraid.
I'm the only one not afraid to get fired
or something.
- No let's be real.
Let's be real.
Okay.
How it was,
was we had to brush
Keanu's hair every day,
five times when he went on set.
I'm done lying.Like..
- This is so diva.
- I wanna go back Alex and Keanu to,
that first movie for a second though,
because it's based on history,
and I hear it, you guys
received letters from teachers,
right?
- I did.
Reeves did you?
- Looking back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
- I got kind of differing letters.
I got I,
and I still get them
to be honest with you.
I get history teachers
reaching out to me saying
that it made,
I didn't write it.
So I don't feel personally
responsible for this.
I think it's Chris and Ed's credit,
not ours,
but, um,
that, it you know,
the spirit of it really
made their kids want to
learn about history.
But then I would also
simultaneously get kind of
admonishing letters from English teachers,
saying that we had basically
dismantled like years
of hard work.
You know, they
everything would be bogus and excellent
and heinous or non, non,
non heinous or non, non,
non, non, non heinous.
Which I think is really
great to be honest with you.
So I don't necessarily sympathize,
but,
- I mean,
you can't lay that all on some movie.
Boo to that teacher.
Um, so, and you should know better.
My mom was a teacher.
Um,
so Bridget, um,
present company excluded, um,
who was one of your
favorite people to work with
on this film?
- Um,
well I think it has to
be, Bill, William Sadler.
Um,
he just,
when he stepped on set,
I guess when I stepped on set and saw him
having just tripped in
his big ass boots and like
just crying in pain,
but doing it anyway,
the whole set changed.
Like he is just,
he's an incredible actor.
He's so focused.
He's so dedicated.
He has this way of like,
I think there's sometimes
like actors were all
such freaks and like,
I think a lot,
like, just so shy a lot of the time,
like Bill just like
comes in a room and he is
that energy of like unity and like,
um,
he just,
he changed it for me.
Um,
yeah.
- That's so cool.
I love that you get that experience.
So just being around
people like that's so cool.
I love when I have a job like that
and you're round someone you're like,
Oh,
you make me want to be a better human.
Um,
that's really cool.
Also.
I just want to say side note,
Sally,
cause I'm a musician,
so you're in a band, right?
- I am.
Yes.Yes.
I'm in a band.
Um,
it's called Subtle Pride.
We are,
uh,
an improvisational voice band.
Um,
but we are,
we're inspired by scripted bands.
Um,
and so sometimes we will play
a song more than once.
Um,
- Wait, what does that mean?
You're an improvisational.
What?
what does that mean?
- Yeah,
so most of our shows we
have full four microphones
and we come to the front,
and it's a pop concert,
but all of the songs are made up.
Um,
and so..
- Like on the spot?
- Yes.
So, um,
yeah,
so it's four of us and
we just get to the front
and usually I'll start
with a beat and then,
someone else will come in and we just do
a concert like that.
- Yeah.
That's so cool.
I'm so impressed by that.
I would never even attempt to that.
Um, so,
uh,
for everybody, this is a question.
Um,
you shot in New Orleans ya'll telling ,
it was so hot, right?
Cause it's in July.
So that had to be pretty miserable,
right?
- Yes.
- I'm not sure.
It,
again, like,
doesn't really support human life.
I don't understand how
people are doing that.
- It was hot, and New
Orleans was really lovely.
It's like one of my favorite places
I've ever been,
but,
by the end of the day,
my face makeup had kind
of moved its way down to
my knees.
Shots of my knees with my eyes and lips.
You'll know why.
- That's what happens.
- In every single thing
like, Alex and Keanu,
and there's times when
they, like the suits
that you guys had to wear,
were,
I mean, just seemed,
it looks like the coolest
thing in the movie.
I still haven't seen it,
but like,
they just seemed like a,
like they were prepping
to be prized fighters.
They're probably the amount of sweat.
- Oh my God, that sounds,
I've had to do like,
uh,
music videos like that,
we were outside and everybody's like,
they keep wanting you to look like dry
and I'm like,
then maybe shoot it inside.
Like it's so hot right now.
Um,
I don't know an idea for next time.
Um,
all right.
So, um,
before we go,
could y'all give us your favorite famous,
parting words.
You know,
the thing you were talking
about earlier, Alex.
Can y'all do the thing..
- Yeah,
we wanna all do it.
- Yes!
- We should all do it.
- Okay.
I'm gonna watch you.
Go ahead.
- Okay.
One, two, three.
Be excellent to each other.
- You can never be a band together.
That was all like,
I imagine Bridget,
that's like when improv doesn't go well.
- That's like every show.
- That's amazing.
The timing in the zoom,
but I love it.
Be excellent to each
other and party on dudes.
I'll say it for us all.
Thank you so much,
everyone.
So excited for this movie.
So blessed that y'all all
came to visit us today.
Bill and Ted face the music is in theaters
and on demand right now.
