Birth Movies Death has posted Scott Wampler’s interview with William Sadler for VFW. Towards the end he was asked about Bill and Ted Face the Music.
I would be remiss if I did not talk to you a little bit about what may be your most iconic role, The Grim Reaper, which you’ll be returning to soon in Bill & Ted Face The Music. People are insanely excited for this movie.
I know! I worry that the anticipation is so great that there’s no way on Earth that it can live up to their expectations.
They were trying to get this movie off the ground for years and it kept stalling out right before crossing the starting line. Were you privy to all that back and forth?
I wasn’t directly involved in any of those conversations, no. I would hear about it, certainly. Ed Solomon, one of the writers, contacted me years ago and said, “Hey, I’m writing the Reaper into Bill & Ted 3, would you be interested?” And I said, “Of course I would!” So I was very excited to be asked back, once it got off the ground.
Well, we’re all excited, too.
Thank you! And I’m excited to see it. Y’know, the Reaper isn’t all the way through it, like he is in Bogus Journey. So there’s a bunch of this movie that I wasn’t even there for the filming of. But I love the script and I know what Alex [Winter] and Keanu [Reeves] are capable of, so I’m as jazzed to see it as everyone else.