"Six weeks ago, Alex Winter was on stage at the first night of previews for Waiting for Godot the latest Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece, in which Winter plays the puttering Vladimir to Keanu Reeves's equally aimless Estragon. Winter is an old pro at live performance: he spent almost all of his middle and high school years on Broadway, eight shows a week."
"I was like: Oh, holy shit! What if I'm wrong? he says, perched on a velvet sofa in a lounge at the theatre, a few hours before he goes on again. And I'm looking at Keanu, who's in a similar state of terror. And well, it would have worried me if either of us were like, whatever.' The show, of course, went on."
"One hundred percent. There should be a jumping-out-of-an-airplane [feeling] without, you know, jumping out of an airplane. I know I can trust Keanu and he can trust me. There's no bullshit Winter would know."
Alex Winter returned to Broadway in a revival of Waiting for Godot, playing Vladimir opposite Keanu Reeves's Estragon. He experienced panic on the first night of previews but performed through the fear and completed the show. Winter values creative risk and trusts Reeves as a co-performer. The run is part of a 16-week engagement, and the pair are one-third through that schedule. Concurrently, Winter released Adulthood, his first directed film in over a decade, in which he also appears as a stoner. Winter's career traverses roles as child actor, movie star, director, producer and tech documentarian, and has been varied and unconventional.
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