Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Got a ‘Very Warm’ Welcome into the World of Broadway — but They Both Had 1 Initial Thought

The pair, who are friends successful existent life, are starring successful Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at nan Hudson Theatre from Oct. 31 to Jan. 4. According to a synopsis, nan accumulation is astir “two friends searching for meaning successful an absurd world.”

Panel big Naomi Fry asked Winter if he gave Reeves immoderate proposal for his Broadway debut, having been successful productions since his early teens.

“I kept saying, which he conscionable kept laughing astatine maine about, which deserved laughter, was it's conscionable a stage,” Winter recalled of Reeves. “It's conscionable different stage. I mean, Keanu had done Hamlet, backmost successful nan time [and] we were doing Bogus Journey. He was doing each this, you know, Shakespeare workshops, for illustration he knows theatre very well.”

Winter said he reassured Reeves not to overthink performing connected Broadway, and thankfully, others successful nan manufacture person been conscionable arsenic easy-going.

“Don't fto it zap your head. Like it's an assemblage and it's a stage,” Winter said. “It does person significance. It's Broadway. 

“They've been very lukewarm to us. We came and did that Tony point successful June and everyone has been really lovely,” he continued, referring to them presenting an grant astatine nan Tony Awards. 

Winter, who antecedently starred pinch Reeves successful the Bill & Ted film franchise, said “there’s a circumstantial Broadway world” pinch its ain culture, but everyone has been “quite inviting” astir Reeves' debut successful Waiting for Godot.

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“But, that's not to opportunity that we didn't, you know, some quietly,” he added, trailing off, arsenic Reeves chimed in, “What nan f---"

“Exactly. Thank you. I didn't want to do that, but I'm gladsome personification did,” Winter said. 

Despite nan pleasant welcome, Winter confessed they were some “panicking.”

“I looked up astatine him and I was like, ‘Oh, he's likewise paralyzed,’” Winter said of Reeves. “That's good. 

“And past nan point that went up and we did nan show and it was honestly 1 of my favourite shows we've done,” he concluded.