He would come up and laugh and say, “That’s great, try this.” [Parisot and Hewitt] both worked with a loose enough hand that you never felt like you were constrained. [teasing repeatedly]  This one’s got some serious anti-police / pro-Black Lives Matter vibes. I was actually surprised at how fast and easy it came back to me. And they weren’t just caricatures. I was keeping my eyes peeled for you in Face the Music, but I didn’t see you. Grim Reaper We gotta try! I’m older now, so physically, it’s a little bit harder. He was also a series regular on the television series Roswell as Sheriff Jim Valenti and in Wonderfalls as Darrin Tyler. But if you lose, you will stay in hell, forever. I heard that. : He was really great and supportive. : [he smiles terrifyingly]. HEH HEH HEH! If you go on YouTube I think you can see it. How does one go about preparing to play Death? : [laughs] It never occurred to me in this one. Definitely! Ted : ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Sadler_(actor)&oldid=982838229, State University of New York at Geneseo alumni, BLP articles lacking sources from December 2009, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2016, Articles needing additional references from December 2017, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2017, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Episode: "Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare", Episodes: "Blind Spot: Part 1" & "Blind Spot: Part 2", Episode: "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble", This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 17:37. Sadler took his first post-school role in Florida and soon relocated to Boston, moving in with his sister while scrubbing the floors of a lobster boat by day and performing his acting roles at night. : We gotta get back to the babes! It’s me doing the Reaper for the first time. Bill & Ted Face the Music is filled with new faces and returning champions, including William Sadler, who reprises his role as Death himself, the Grim Reaper. In addition to appearing in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as the Grim Reaper, Sadler also appears as himself with his real-life wife and 5-year-old daughter in scenes where families around world respond to Bill and Ted's actions. : Heh heh! You have a fun, make-up free cameo in Bogus Journey. What? Grim Reaper A chance meeting with an old schoolmate on a trip into the city resulted in Sadler's casting in an off-off-Broadway production of Chekhov's Ivanov. Colonel Oates I told Pete I’d love to be in the movie somewhere, as a clerk in a store or something, without the make-up on. Excuse us, dude, but is there any way back? Ted Ted But to metalheads around the world, he shall forever known for his hilarious work as the Grim Reaper from Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. What was it like working Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving [who play Bill and Ted’s respective daughters, Billie and Thea] in comparison to working with Keanu and Alex? You hit it over the fence to them, and they hit it back to you. HEH HEH HEH HEH! : [citation needed], Sadler took his first post-school role in Florida and soon relocated to Boston, moving in with his sister while scrubbing the floors of a lobster boat by day and performing his acting roles at night. He appeared in three episodes as Sloan in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's final two seasons. Would you be interested in playing the role again?” I said “Yes!”, because I had so much fun on Bogus Journey. : Sadler's TV guest appearances include In the Heat of the Night, Roseanne, Tru Calling, Tour of Duty, CSI, Numb3rs, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. No, I didn’t do a make-up free cameo in this one. Good thinking, Ted. We get a lot of backstory as to what death has been up to since we last saw him. : The Easter Bunny was in Bogus Journey, so this kind of makes sense…? : Bill Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon 's Tony Award winning play "Biloxi Blues". The movie is directed by Dean Parisot and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. [8][9], Sadler appeared as the president of the United States in Iron Man 3 that was released in May 2013. : We are now transmitting on every television channel throughout the world! [to Bill]  Technical Specs, [the Reaper enters Bill and Ted in the Darkness]. Excellent! Video: Lamb of God’s Mark Morton Watches Fan YouTube Covers, Video: Devin Townsend Watches Fan YouTube Covers, Detailed Analysis: Vest Metal is Officially the Next Annoying Trend in Metal, Peep These Awesome Pop Stars Gone Metal Shirts. Can you tell us a little bit about the differences in working with [Bogus Journey director] Pete Hewitt and [Face the Music director] Dean Parisot? They weren’t just doing imitations of Bill and Ted. : : I would ad-lib and I would go places that weren’t quite in the script. : : : Luckily, they won’t have to! Don't "Fear the Reaper"! MetalSucks recently caught up with Sadler via phone to discuss what it was like to return to the role after all these years, the differences between working with new and old members of the creative team, the relevance of the movie’s message in 2020, and more. "Final 'Iron Man' is more violent, Stark more fiery". DAMN RIGHT! : All content created & copyright © 2020 Metal Sucks. : Dead Bill Op-Ed: Metal Vocalists Have Become Irrelevant, The Hard R: God Forbid’s Dallas Coyle Blogs on Life, Liberty, Hilary Clinton, and The Pursuit of Chicken. No way! Toomey" in the Broadway run of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, opposite Matthew Broderick in 1985. Grim Reaper Filming & Production : Hell Sucks! Dean and Pete are similar in this regard: once the scene was on its feet, and Alex was there and Keanu was there and I was there and the girls were there, once the machine was set in motion, Dean is a cheerleader. Official Sites A hit. : Moore, Roger (May 2, 2013). : Dead Ted They actually came up with their own versions. Then he described the backstory we just discussed. Thematically, though, it also fits in with the movie’s theme about unity… I mean, the Bill & Ted movies have always been about unity, but there’s something especially relevant about it now. Deacon's Easter Basket, NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH! : The Grim Reaper returns for another excellent adventure with Bill S. Preston, Esq.