Keanu Reeves stripped down to his underwear while covered in fake blood during his latest Broadway performance.
The Matrix star, 61, joined Alex Winter, 60, on stage at the Hudson Theatre on Halloween night. The two are currently appearing together in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
After completing their normal bows, they returned to the stage in just their underwear and covered in fake blood.
The bloody encore was a reference to recent Lloyd productions where his leading men end the show scantily clad and covered in bloody liquids.
Reeves, who recently denied rumors he had wed his longtime partner Alexandra Grant, 52, showed off his muscular physique beneath the fake blood.
The actor — who was chased by an obsessive fan following his performance last month — sported shaggy hair and a beard for the performance.
Keanu Reeves, 61, stripped down to his underwear while covered in fake blood during his latest Broadway performance
The Matrix star joined Alex Winter, 60, on stage at the Hudson Theatre on Halloween night. The two are currently appearing together in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
At one point both he and Winter raised their arms in the air as they interacted with the audience.
Last year, Lloyd’s revival of Sunset Blvd. concluded with star Tom Francis taking his final bow in black boxer briefs, drenched in red fluid.
Lloyd repeated the headline-making artistic choice this summer in his revival of Evita, where leading man Diego Andres Rodriguez took his bows in his underwear covered in blue fluid.
Speed star Reeves officially made his Broadway debut as the hapless Estragon in Lloyd’s revival of the 1952 Beckett surrealist tragicomedy, which runs through January 4, 2026.
In September, Reeves was branded ‘stiff’ on stage by New York Post‘s Johnny Oleksinski, as it was claimed he ‘struggled’ through the performance as Estragon.
In the New York Post review, the performance landed a meager two star rating with criticism leveled at Reeves, with the review reading: ‘He doesn’t imbue any of Gogo’s lines with meaning — only speed and breathiness.’
‘They’re just memorized words that are read with the investment of stating one’s Social Security number. The actor relies on a vacant stare that’s money when he’s playing an assassin on the big screen. Not so much in live theater.’
The Guardian critic Adrian Horton gave the production three stars, and praised Reeves’s chemistry with his Bill & Ted co-star Winter.
After completing their normal bows, they returned to the stage in just their underwear and covered in fake blood
The bloody encore was a reference to recent Lloyd productions where his leading men end the show scantily clad and covered in bloody liquids
Both actors showed off their muscular physiques beneath the fake blood
The play sees Reeves reunite with his his Bill & Ted co-star Winter
In September, Reeves was branded ‘stiff’ on stage by New York Post’s Johnny Oleksinski, as it was claimed he ‘struggled’ through his performance
Speed star Reeves officially made his Broadway debut as the hapless Estragon in director Lloyd’s revival of the 1952 Beckett surrealist tragicomedy, which runs through January 4
The production hasn’t been without drama. Last month, Reeves was chased by an obsessive fan who called herself his ‘divine’ wife as he left his Broadway show; Seen in October
‘Luckily, there’s Bill & Ted to save the day. The reunion of Winter and Reeves provides a shiny, pleasing lacquer of nostalgia over the proceedings, their comedic chemistry still unmatched and irreproducible. The two longtime friends lend lines such as “together again at last …” a jolt of delight, with a couple extra-textual treats to boot.’
Last month Reeves was chased by an obsessive fan who called herself his ‘divine’ wife as he left his Broadway show.
The shocking footage saw the woman try to break into Keanu’s car and scream that she is his ‘divine wife’ before being dragged away bodyguards and falling to the ground.
In September, Reeves addressed speculation that he married his girlfriend Alexandra. He originally met Alexandra at a dinner party in 2009 before contributing poetry to two of her books, Ode to Happiness in 2011 and Shadows in 2016.
His representative told E! News: ‘It is not true. They are not married.’
Reeves first went public with Grant in 2019.
