You probably still think of Alex Winter as Kiefer Sutherland’s bloodsucking, peroxide-haired vampire biker mate Marko in 1987’s The Lost Boys, or the air-guitaring slacker Bill S Preston Esq alongside Keanu Reeves’s Ted “Theodore” Logan in the Bill & Ted franchise.
But Winter actually started out as a child actor on Broadway, appearing in The King and I with Yul Brynner before making his big-screen debut opposite Charles Bronson in 1985’s Death Wish 3. As well as the above, he played poet and physician John William Polidori in 1988’s Haunted Summer, and co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the 1993 cult comedy Freaked.
Since then, Winter has mainly been behind the camera: he wrote and directed the well-received psychological thriller Fever, starring ET the Extra-Terrestrial’s Henry Thomas, in 1999, and has made documentaries on everything from the dark web to child stardom and Frank Zappa. In 2020, he reunited with his old buddy Reeves for a third Bill & Ted film; and then reunited with him again in 2025, playing Vladimir opposite Reeves’s Estragon in Waiting for Godot on Broadway.
So, what to ask him? Post your questions below by 12pm this Thursday 27 August and we’ll publish his most triumphant answers as part of our readers’ interview series. And in the meantime, be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes! **Does air guitar**
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey 4K UHD is out now.
