Alex Winter said acting with Keanu Reeves on Broadway was “trippy and uncommon”.
The actors star in Waiting for Godot, and the experience felt surreal and unusual for Alex, 60, because he tried to juggle playing Vladimir while drawing on the emotions and memories he and 61-year-old Keanu, who portrays Estragon, have shared in their decades-long friendship.
Appearing on the latest episode of The Small Bow podcast, Alex explained: “It helped that we’re really good friends and we give each other space.
“Not in a serious way, but I think we both laughed about it, like, ‘Will we both be friends when we come out the other end?’
“It was stressful, so we had each other. And pretty early on it was like ‘Great, I’m doing this with someone who I get along with, that’s really helpful in this situation.'”
He added: “It’s a play about an intimate relationship with a long-term friend, and we can use so much stuff.”
Waiting for Godot, directed by Samuel Beckett, follows two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who wait by a tree for the mysterious Godot to arrive, but never does.
Alex said: “There are times when I’m looking at him on stage and he’s Estragon and he’s Keanu and I’m thinking about stuff that happened between us almost 40… 35 years ago.
“The dialogue I’m saying, the emotions that I have to conjure up, and they are literally about this guy, and it was very trippy and uncommon.”
Alex and Keanu’s close friendship started on the 1989 comedy, Bill + Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and the latter was thrilled to reunite with his pal in Waiting for Godot.
In September 2025, Keanu told People: “[It was] amazing [and a] dream come true, more than I can ever dream of.
“It’s been an amazing process. To be having an opening on Broadway doing Waiting for Godot with [Alex] is [mind-blowing].”
And Alex added that Waiting for Godot was the perfect project for them both to star in.
He said: “We’ve known each other a very long time. It’s a play about two people who have known each other a very long time, which actually matters, I think, to the play.
“And Keanu had this crazy, inspired idea that suddenly turned into reality, for both of us. … It became a show we had to do.”
Keanu added: “This is the step into the reality. It’s fantastic.”
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