- [Interviewer] Three, two, one.
Hey, I'm Alex Winter, I play Bill.
- I'm Keanu Reeves, I play Ted.
- That was a good one, dude.
- [Director] OK, folks,
we're gonna shoot one now.
What you did just now during the rehearsal was great,
you wanna do the same thing.
- [Interviewer] Have Bill and Ted, as characters,
like, did they make them grow up at all?
- They didn't really make us grow up. We kind of -
- We drink beer. - Yeah.
We've, you know,
we've gotten a little bit older.
We made the characters a little bit older
in order to be able to play 'em.
But they still have the same innocence that they had
and the same -
- Joie de vivre.
- Yeah, the same, what he said, and -
I think that enthusiasm is intact, you know.
Even though they've kind of a had
a hard road of it the last four years
since the last movie, 'cause, you know.
- [Interviewer] What do you think's happened to them?
Well, they left, you know,
we left them and they were
handed down this incredible future,
this promise by Rufus,
and of course,
you know, they didn't have the first idea how to go about
creating this future, this destiny.
- [Interviewer] What happens
to Bill and Ted this time around?
- [Keanu] OK. What happens to us?
OK. First of all, Bill and Ted live in their own place.
They work at a place called Pretzels 'n' Cheese,
they're still with Wyld Stallyns,
the girlfriends,
the babes,
the princesses,
are living in another place.
We're still, you know, going out,
and our story
is based around -
there's this evil presence in the future named De Nomolos
who wants to have an alternative present.
So in order to effect that change,
'cause he hates his world
because in the future, you know, we're gods, right?
We just, I mean, not gods, but I mean we're deities?
- [Alex] Yeah, that'll work.
- And we've, you know,
produced a world that is most excellent
and he's just dark and he doesn't want that.
So what he does is he sends back evil robots to
effect a change in a moment
in the film, which is Battle of the Bands.
- [Alex] Which is where we're at right now.
- [Interviewer] So what happens tonight
at Battle of the Bands?
- Tonight? We -
the section we're gonna shoot tonight is
Bill and Ted go through this entire odyssey,
and they get to their -
their goal is to play at this big rock and roll festival
to make 25 grand and
and get out of this cloud of debt
and marry their girlfriends and have a wonderful life
and be the best rock and roll band on Earth.
- [Keanu] Yeah.
- And, or just at least be, you know,
a good rock and roll band.
And they get to this point
and they still don't know how to play.
So,
well, I don't really want to give it away.
- [Keanu] No, we don't.
- No, but this big rockin' scene at the end
is a big climactic finale.
- Yeah. And, and that moment that De Nomolos wants to avoid
is coming up.
- Yeah.
So he knows that on a certain day
that the Battle of the Band in San Dimas, California,
Bill and Ted will make a speech that will
create the legacy that will be his future.
And he doesn't want that to happen.
- [Interviewer] So you guys are going
to make the future today?
- Yeah. We are going to make the speech
that sets forth our future.
- [Keanu] Yeah.
- [Director] Rolling!
Action.
- Yo, what are we gonna say?
- I don't know, dude,
but it better be good.
- Kiss
your fears, dudes.
(crowd cheering)
- Yeah!
(crowd cheering)
Or just call 'em.
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- Or offer them a honey bun or something?
- [Crowd] Yeah!
- Then they'll get smaller
- [Alex] Totally.
- And maybe they'll even go away.
(crowd cheers)
All we can say is
let's rock!
(crowd cheers)
- [Interviewer] You guys actually play, yourselves?
- [Keanu] Sure.
- [Alex] I played bass,
and Keanu plays bass.
We're a duo of basses.
And it's kinda funny
because we have to play guitar, electric guitar
in this movie, but
we wrote our own song.
- Yeah, we did.
- Our own Wyld Stallyns song
and it's cool because
Keanu and I don't really know how to play,
though we do know a fair bit about -
we both like music and know a fair bit about guitar.
So we kind of come to it
from the same place Bill and Ted do,
who are really enthusiastic about musical instruments
but have no innate talent whatsoever.
- [Interviewer] You guys get to save the world in this one
or is that gonna be the next one?
- [Alex] Next one? Dude, did they tell you
there was gonna be another one of these things?
- [Keanu] Well, the kid, they just got off the phone
with the kid.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Keanu] Who just got the rights
and he's already interested
- [Alex] He's digging on another one?
- [Keanu] Yeah.
- [Alex] But doesn't he want his friends to be in that one?
- [Keanu] Yeah.
- Does he still want us to be Bill and Ted?
- Yeah.
- He does? Well that's cool.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we don't really - yeah. Well, yeah,
but we just hang out with them.
- Yeah, no, that's cool.
That'd be a great - that's the third one.
The third one is
Bill and Ted hang out in this kid's room.
- [Keanu] With John.
- Yeah, in Encino,
and he's got a bunch of guitars,
he's got some Nintendo, and some.
He's got some Fiddle Faddle and some Funyuns.
And we hang out there and we,
you know, we do our thing.
- [Interviewer] And that'd be it?
- Yeah.