The long-awaited reunion between Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter finally happened. The actors who first worked together on the hit comedy Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure in 1989 were back together on Sunday, this time on stage.
A Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot officially opened on Sunday. Keanu portrays the role of Estragon in the Samuel Beckett adaptation, with Alex taking on the part of Vladimir.
Keanu says he’s thrilled to be working with Alex once again. “It’s been an amazing process,” he said.
Since playing opposite each other on the big screen in the late 80s, the pair have done two Bill and Ted sequels, with Bill and Ted Face the Music coming out in 2020.
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunited on Broadway at the Waiting for Godot revival
This stage project may differ from what fans are accustomed to seeing from the two actors. In another way, though, their familiarity with one another makes them both ideally cast for this show.
“We’ve known each other a very long time,” Alex told People about Keanu.“It’s a play about two people who have known each other a very long time, which actually matters,” he adds. Among other things, Waiting for Godot explores themes such as hope, uncertainty, and the human condition.
In the play, the characters of Keanu and Alex pass the time through conversations, random encounters with strangers, and a mix of bizarre humor and despair, as they await Godot, a mysterious person who never arrives. The play was originally written in French in the late 1940s. It premiered in Paris around that time before being translated into English and debuting at theatres in London and the United States in 1955.
The show has been redone countless times on Broadway since then. It marks Keanu’s Broadway debut, with Alex previously featured in The King and I and Peter Pan.
Waiting for Godot is currently playing at the Hudson Theatre in New York.
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