Winter (jokingly) defined how advanced the hairdo was, explaining that it was Reeves’ concept:
“Ted Hair was actually onerous to do. I’ve to present Keanu credit score for that. Ted Hair needed to be out like — and this was all his design — it needed to be out of this sort of bodily inconceivable degree. Like, not too excessive. ‘Trigger the make-up folks could be like, ‘Oh, I am going to simply spray it. I am going to put it up within the air.’ He’d be like ‘No, that is not what I need.’ It must be between ‘down right here’ and ‘up right here.’ […] It’s type of genius. You understand, I needed to undergo for months with him making an attempt to get it the place it wanted to be. We would be ready for the digicam to roll, and Ted Hair would ask for a mirror.”
Winter was, after all, exaggerating. He did, nonetheless, discover Reeves’ look to be genuinely humorous. “It does make you giggle your butt off,” he added.
Winter then famous that the right shot of Ted’s hair got here close to the movie’s climax. After receiving psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud on stage in entrance of his highschool class, Ted sits up from the remedy sofa and easily says his trademark “Woah.” Reeves was lit from the again, silhouetting his hair, which was nonetheless a bit of frizzy from having laid down. It was a second of magnificence.
Winter and Reeves reprised their roles within the 1990 “Invoice & Ted” animated collection in addition to the 1991 follow-up, “Invoice & Ted’s Bogus Journey,” and the 2020 long-in-the-tooth sequel “Invoice & Ted Face the Music.” Ted Hair didn’t seem within the 2020 movie. Winter and Reeves additionally didn’t seem within the 1992 live-action TV collection “Invoice & Ted’s Glorious Adventures,” nonetheless, having turned over their roles to Evan Richards and Christopher Kennedy, respectively.
