When I got the script for the first Bill & Ted movie, I was, like, ‘I can’t really tell if this is a straight-up sex comedy or something else.’ But the thing that struck me was that you had these two guys in high school who were more like elementary schoolers, with this affinity for music and language. It reminded me of being 11 or 12, having that friend’s older brother who turned you on to Rush. Listening to 2112 in someone’s attic and thinking, ‘Wow!’
I very much identified with the character, especially the way I was in elementary and middle school. I was obsessed with Kiss when I was 10, 11, 12 years old – my entry point was the Destroyer, Alive, Love Gun-era. Sure, I was a member of the Kiss Army. They were so larger than life – they were like superheroes. I had my room festooned with Kiss posters and other paraphernaliao. And all my friends had the same – we kind of entered that world together.
