Alex Winter on reviving "Bill & Ted" and returning to acting

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In case you haven't heard: Bill and Ted are back! And today we're joined by Alex Winter. Alex talks with Carrie Poppy about his new movie Bill & Ted Face the Music, his documentary about former child stars, Showbiz Kids, and why he left acting for 25 years. Plus, he'll reveal what the "S" in Bill S. Preston Esq. stands for. San Dimas High School Football rules!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.5	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:21.8	Our guest this week is actor Alex Winter.
0:24.1	He's interviewed by Carrie Poppick, co-host of MaximumFun's own podcast, Oh No Ross and
0:28.8	Carrie.
0:29.9	Alex Winter is probably best known for his role as the time-traveling teenager Bill S. Preston
0:35.4	S. Quire in the iconic Bill and Ted movies from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
0:41.6	I mean, if you are listening to this and you are within the right age cohort, they are
0:48.1	intimately familiar to you.
0:50.6	These two dudes, Bill and Ted, travel back in time to meet historical figures, Mike Abraham
0:55.3	Lincoln, Billy the Kid and Socrates for their high school history presentation.
1:00.1	Then in the sequel, they go to heaven and hell, then of course give death a wedgie in an
1:06.4	elaborate Ingmar Bergman parody.
1:09.2	Obviously, these are silly movies.
1:11.5	What makes them work though is the chemistry and the probable friendship between Bill
1:16.0	and Ted.
1:17.1	These are two dudes who could not be more thrilled to be best friends with each other.
1:21.4	And with the way that Alex and Cano Reeves portray them, you really believe it.
1:26.3	After the success of the Bill and Ted movies, Cano Reeves went on to be, you know, Cano
1:31.9	Reeves.
1:32.9	But Alex Winter stepped away from acting and transitioned into work behind the scenes.
1:38.5	He's directed documentaries about the deep web, about the music industry.
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