Rivers Edge (1986)

“It was a great script. I remember going to the audition, where I met Crispin Glover. That was an exciting day. And then I got the role and that was an even better day!

“Working with Crispin, meeting Dennis Hopper… It was one o🅺f my first jobs in Losꦐ Angeles and a great artistic experience.”

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

“I’d just driven across the country from Los Angeles to New York and I got the role. I guess I was about 23.

“I mean, I was so excited. I didn’t know the novel before I auditioned, but after, I eventually read it.

“I didn’t get any rehearsal and my first day was with𒆙 Malkovich. I rea꧟lly was a fish out of water. But then, I think I got hired for my innocence.”

Bill and Ted (1989)

“Well, the material was just… funny. The heart of the film was good and Stephen Herek was a really good director for it.

“I met Alex Winter and he and I got along famously but, did I know it was going to be so popular? No. When I got the audition, I probably didn’t even have the whole script.

Bonus! On Bill and Ted 3:

“Way back when I was in my thirties, Alex and I would talk about playing Bill and Ted in our forties. But now he and I are in our mid-forties, so maybe he and I need to talk about playing B🦋ill and Ted in their fift🔴ies.

I wouldn’t say 𝄹no, but it would have to be a good idea and they would have t🐲o be a reason to do it. And we don’t have one right now”

Point Break (1991)

"K♓athryn Bigelow – what was she thinking? She obviously saw something that no one else c🍰ould see, god bless her heart, and she cast me in Point Break. opposite Patrick Swayze!

"Who would have thought of me as an FBI agent? But, you know, I grew up playing sports so I was physically able and kind of coordinated.

"I didn’t think of it as an action movie. ꧙I thought of it as a drama, a kind of fun movie with a great role in it."

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

"I was approached with that project by Winona ryder and then I met up with Francis. I remember being psychologically really beat up after three films in close succession bℱut, again, it was a great opportunity and there was francis and he liked me.

"Then I met garyꦰ [Oldman] and then they said “Yes” – that was another good day! We went to napa and started rehearsals"

Speed (1994)

"I tried to bring a character into it – an everyman kind of thing. I mean that was the story. that was Jan de Bont’s take and for me, I guess I took that and ran with it.

"And I also had a great stunt coordinator in gary Hives, who really put me there. Then I kind of knew a little bit more about what I was doing so I could say, 'Okay, let’s get me under t🗹he bus. Let’s hang me upside down on a wire in the elevator shaft. Yeah, I can shoot guns.'"

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

"I had a great experience with that, worki♛ng with [director] Robert Longo. the film got taken out of his hands a little bit, but if you look back on that movie it’s really ahead of its time. [Laughs] It is!"

The Matrix (1999)

"I didn’t know how other people were going to receive it, but I knew how I did. I was absolutely taken with🌺 it. the construct, you know, the platform that they had of reality and what you perceive of reality from a science fiction aspect, the idea of the agents – and then there was kung-fu thrown in!

"It was like, 'How come no one else ever thought of this? It&rsq💙uo;s just so perfect…' And then meeting Andrew and Larry Wachowski… those guys were such visionaries, you know, with the ‘bullettime’ e🌠ffects."

The Replacements (2000)

"Gene Hackman and I had lighter, much lighter, scenes to do. But to hang out with him and to see how – [He and Al Pacino] – just see how they go aౠbout tꦺheir craft… they’re both just such beautiful actors.

"We don’t think of Al pacino now with economy, but that’s what he has. He’s just a beautiful actor and gene Hackman is anoth✤er nonpareil, you know?"

Something's Gotta Give (2003)

"[Jack nicholson] is a generous actor. He offers so much variety and the director decides to pick. He’s very practical too – like there’s a scene between he and I where he’s just had his heart attack and it’s kind of sensi🍌tive.

"He’s crying and he doesn’t know why he’s crying. He told me later: 'I💖 was driving to the studio and I had to take a piss desperately, so I took a piss on the highway.'

"When I asked why he was so desperate, he said, 'Because you gotta dꦍrink a lot of water when you’ve got a crying scene. If you don’t have a lot of water in your body the tears won’t come.'"

Constantine (2005)

"I think Francis Lawrence [the director] did a great job. And yes, I did have a blast playi🥀ng that rolܫe.

"I know that we went from blond to brunette and from English to American, but I hope that fans of the piece thought that we captured at least some of that ‘Constantinian’ edge. His anger, his world😼-weariness, his circumstances."

The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)

“What appealed to me was Scott’s [Scott Derrickson, director] ‘why’ to do it. The Earth being at a crisis point, a cross-roads. Humanity as well. Looking at that as a story.

“I thought that 🦄was a good start… and I thought it would be fun to play an alien.”