You were born in London but grew up in America. When do you feel most British? DonarudoToranpu
The UK is still my second home. I\u2019ve worked there a lot as an adult. When I\u2019m back in London, I like walking on Hampstead Heath, so I would say that\u2019s where I feel most at home.<\/p>\n
Having played Marko in The Lost Boys and then John Polidori in Haunted Summer, have you been tempted to take on another vampire-related role? And was getting staked to death while you were sleeping a bit of a disappointing end for Marko \u2013 what would have been your preferred way of going out in style? Death by stereo, perhaps? Finbarre and MoreorLesPaul
I\u2019d love to do another vampire movie. I love those characters. They\u2019re interesting and great fun to play. There are some really good vampire movies \u2013 I\u2019m grateful I was in one that has, for some reason that none of us can figure out, really stood the test of time. And I love Marko\u2019s death. As an actor, the first time you get staked is the most memorable.<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Bill & Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey (1994). Photograph: Cinematic\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Which Keanu Reeves was the most fun to work with: in Waiting for Godot on Broadway; as Ted \u201cTheodore\u201d Logan to your Bill S Preston, Esq in Bill & Ted; or as mutant Ortiz the Dog Boy when you directed him in Freaked? And following Waiting for Godot, what wildly inappropriate classic should Bill & Ted tackle next? FioreSebek and GunHarp
I just love performing with Keanu. The funny thing is we both play bass, so all through the first Bill & Ted, whenever we weren\u2019t shooting, we\u2019d be jamming. Keanu and I both have theatre backgrounds and have studied Shakespeare, so I\u2019d like to do some Shakespeare, maybe something like Measure for Measure. There\u2019s a few that we\u2019ve discussed. I\u2019m not sure if we\u2019ll get there, but who knows? Never say never.<\/p>\n
My kids (six and nine) have just discovered Ben 10 in all its incarnations and I saw you directed the live-action versions. If you could choose the powers of any of the aliens in the Omnitrix, which would it be and why? LethalLiaison
Heatblast was my favourite. He\u2019s a powerful fire character. My children were obsessed with Ben 10 at the time, and we worked on those together, which was something I don\u2019t often get to do, so it was a lovely experience. I met my wife on that project too. She was running Cartoon Network studios at the time.<\/p>\n
Michael Winner directed you in your first film, Death Wish 3. Say something nice about him \u2013 and where did you go out drinking when you were filming it in London? ExFi and OttoMaddox
I can absolutely say something nice about Michael Winner. He was the most erudite sociopath I\u2019ve ever met. That\u2019s a compliment. We used to drink in Brixton, largely. One of the people working on the show \u2013 I think he may have been involved in some criminal activity, so maybe the less said about him the better \u2013 owned a club there. They would close it and we would hang out there all night. I was 19 when I made Death Wish 3. It was a very fun, formidable summer.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve made documentaries about Napster, the dark web, blockchain and YouTube. Which part of the internet scares you most these days? Zenchi
The hasty, greed-oriented rush into the AI space is the most frightening thing happening right now. That\u2019s not to say all AI is bad, but a lot of the people running the AI companies are very bad. So what scares me the most is the tech oligarch takeover that\u2019s occurring in so many areas of business, politics and civic culture.<\/p>\n
Frank Zappa at the Amougies Festival in Belgium, October 1969. Photograph: Philippe Gras\/Alamy<\/p>\n
After directing your Frank Zappa documentary, for those, like me, who\u2019ve been immune to his charms, can you recommend a Zappa track or album? HenleyRegatta
I didn\u2019t make the doc as a big fan. I made it because I was very interested in Frank Zappa as a way into looking at American culture and artistic culture. He\u2019s a really good doc subject: someone who decided to live their life in a purely artistic way, and what the consequences of that were. If you want the quintessential Zappa album \u2013 unless you are just never going to like him \u2013 it\u2019s impossible not to enjoy Hot Rats. I\u2019m also very partial to the album he made at the very end of his life, The Yellow Shark, which is almost a classical, jazz-oriented album.<\/p>\n
The Bill & Ted movies feel like a beautiful, optimistic tribute to the idea that music created by ordinary people will save the world. Do you think it still could? venusdenico
I do think that good art will always help the world. It\u2019s not the only thing. But I do think that music and other art forms absolutely help the planet and help humanity.<\/p>\n
Reeves and Winter with William Sadler as the Grim Reaper, aka Death, in Bogus Journey (1991). Photograph: RGR Collection\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Thanks for that wonderful ending to Bill & Ted Face the Music. Will there be a Bill & Ted 4? brucevayne1000
Keanu and I would love to make a fourth movie. I think the stars have to align in a number of areas for that to happen. But we love playing these characters. We kind of are Bill and Ted. We started playing the characters so young, I don\u2019t really think they exist without us. We defined the characters from the very beginning, so I don\u2019t think it really matters how old we are. It becomes a question of how long can you act, and I think one can act until one is no longer breathing. I really hope they don\u2019t do a reboot. I don\u2019t really want anyone else to play Bill, because I am Bill. That would be a disaster.<\/p>\n
If you had access to Bill & Ted\u2019s phone booth, which non-bogus historical figures would you visit? TeeDubyaBee
I would like to go back to ancient Greece. I would love to meet Euripides or Aeschylus. Or go to Shakespeare\u2019s time. The future too. What is going to happen? Will there be a planet? I\u2019d be curious to go 40 or 50 years into the future and have a look at whether we pulled ourselves out of this climate disaster we\u2019re falling into, which I believe we will. I\u2019m not a nihilist. But I\u2019d be curious to see how we did it.<\/p>\n
If you could \u201cmelvin\u201d anyone in real life \u2013 as Bill & Ted do to Death in Bogus Journey \u2013 who would it be? Dr_J_A_Zoidberg
I grew up in the US, and I did not grow up with \u201cmelvin\u201d. I grew up with \u201cwedgie\u201d. It must be a coastal thing. Maybe on the west coast they say \u201cmelvin\u201d? In the midwest and the east coast they definitely say wedgie. Anyway, who would I most like to melvin or wedgie? Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
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