"Keanu Reeves sent hearts racing in the theater and on social media when he stripped down to his underwear and allowed his lean, muscled torso to be covered in fake blood at the end of his Halloween night performance of Waiting for Godot on Broadway. The 61-year-old Matrix actor was joined in this exhibition by Alex Winter, his co-star in Waiting for Godot and his past co-star in their Bill and Ted teen time-travel movies, the Daily Mail reported."
"After completing their normal bows, the actors returned to the stage, each in black boxer briefs and covered in red liquid. So, what was the purpose of this bloody encore, artistic or otherwise? While the display of blood could be Halloween-related, the Daily Mail said the actors actually wanted to pay tribute, in an inside-theater way, to Jamie Lloyd, the show's hotshot British director."
"Lloyd worked with Reeves in mounting a Broadway revival of this classic play and, apparently, he has a thing about his leading men appearing at the end of his shows, stripped down and covered in some kind of liquid, according to the Daily Mail. Footage from the curtain call for Lloyd's recent adaptation of Evita on the West End in London showed actor Diego Andres Rodriguez, who portrays Che, coming out on stage in boxer briefs and dripping in paint, according to MSN."
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter ended a Halloween-night performance of Waiting for Godot on Broadway by stripping to black boxer briefs and emerging covered in fake blood during the curtain call at the Hudson Theatre. The action was not part of Samuel Beckett's play but a post-bow encore. The actors aimed to honor director Jamie Lloyd, who has previously staged similar stripped-down, liquid-covered curtain calls in productions like Evita and Sunset Boulevard. Footage from Lloyd's West End Evita showed Diego Andres Rodriguez dripping in paint, and Lloyd's Sunset Boulevard revival featured Tom Francis appearing similarly. Images of these curtain calls have become social media memes.
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