Post your questions for Alex Winter
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Key context: <p>The 80s icon and star of The Lost Boys and Bill & Ted has also had a storied career behind the camera and on stage. Now, he’ll answer your (non-bogus) questions </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/24/post-your-questions-for-alex-winter-the-lost-boys-and-bill-and-ted">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
The 80s icon and star of The Lost Boys and Bill & Ted has also had a storied career behind the camera and on stage. Now, he’ll answer your (non-bogus) questions 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. Continue reading...
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