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- Keanu Reeves was asked onstage at The New Yorker Festival whether he intentionally watches old movies starring himself
- The 61-year-old actor is currently starring in Waiting for Godot on Broadway alongside longtime friend Alex Winter
- The pair first costarred in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Keanu Reeves dodges his movies like Neo in The Matrix dodges bullets.
During a discussion at The New Yorker Festival — alongside his Waiting for Godot on Broadway costar Alex Winter and culture critic Naomi Fry — on Oct. 26, the actor revealed whether he watches old movies he stars in.
“No, I mean, maybe while I’m scrolling or moving and thinking, ‘There, oh yes, Point Break is on,’ ” Reeves, 61, explained onstage, referring to his 1991 action film in which he played an undercover FBI agent.
“Or, ‘Oh wow, Matrix, all right. [The Matrix] Reloaded, f— yes,’ ” he added with a laugh, name-dropping the 1999 and 2003 films from The Matrix franchise in which he starred as computer-hacker-turned-superhero Neo.
He continued, “Anyway, not yes, no. … I haven’t like just put one on.”
Winter, who previously starred with Reeves in the Bill & Ted film franchise, also answered Fry’s question about watching himself in old movies.
“I don’t really, I don’t. I don’t like watching myself much, so I don’t tend to watch stuff I’ve done,” Winter, 60, said.
Winter added, “With my last film, actually I did watch. It was just an incredible theater in Toronto, and I wanted to see the audience response, but I don’t tend to do that. And when I do, I feel like a complete, almost like a complete disconnection from the whole thing, you know? So I don’t end up with an analytical response to whatever it is … sort of dissociative.”
Reeves and Winter have reunited for Waiting for Godot, 35 years after their first collaboration in 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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In the Broadway revival, they play Estragon and Vladimir, who wait by a tree for a person named Godot to arrive, passing time with one-on-one conversations, as well as with encounters with strangers.
Tickets for Waiting for Godot are now on sale.
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