Berlin: Keanu Reeves is eager to clear up a common misconception about the character that made him a star.
"I'd like to get one thing straight. Bill and Ted are not stoners. OK, let's get that clear. Not that being a stoner is bad. But Bill and Ted, you know, they have a particular look on life. They like people, their friendship," Reeves told to The Associated Press in an interview.
In the upcoming comedy, Bill and Ted Face the Music, the 55-year-old actor returns to the role of Southern California slacker Ted Logan that he originated in 1989's Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Speaking from Berlin where he is filming The Matrix 4, Reeves said that he was drawn to the film's A Christmas Carol-type structure where the two music-loving friends visit themselves at various points in the future.
"In the course of the film, they're given this kind of Herculean task of saving the universe and time as we know it. And they go into their future selves to try and find - I don't want to give too much away, but - it was actually for me one of the most exciting kind of aspects of this Bill and Ted story was getting the chance to play different incarnations of ourselves," he said.
Alex Winter who also returns to his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the film, said: "It seemed like a fun, fun world to inhabit and a fun way to come back to the characters all these years later. They're very physical roles. And the language is very fun."
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Winter said that while he and Reeves haven't worked together since the 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, they've remained friends.
"There's a real separation in my brain between Keanu, the person that I know, and Ted. And so we had to kind of find - re-find that version of our interplay," Winter said.
Reeves stated that he considers Winter as his 'brother and kindred spirit."
"I have such respect and appreciation for Alex as an artist - back in the day as a performer, now as a writer and director and as a friend. We've had some years together and some experiences," he added.
"And it's been cool to, in a way, grow up together," concluded Reeves.
With inputs from APTN
