Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Adult Ted Costume - XS

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If you watch Shawshank carefully, that funny side of myself, I can’t keep a lid on it. It’s a serious film, but I feel like I’m the comic relief in that. The performance is even more surprising given that Sadler, a veteran character actor, has primarily made his name in dramas, playing either creeps (a rogue colonel in Die Hard 2, a pedophile in Kinsey) or authority figures (a sheriff in Roswell, the president in the MCU). Before Sadler reprises the role in the long-awaited Bill & Ted Face the Music, he spoke to Vulture about the origin of Death’s Czech accent, creating some of the character’s most famous lines, and bonding with George Carlin between takes.

It was brilliantly written. The other interesting thing about that sequence was that it was my first day of filming. The first day I had all the makeup and the robes, the first time I had met Alex [Winter] and Keanu [Reeves], it was the day that we shot the game sequence, “best two out of three.” There’s always some nerves around the first day, and I think the producers, the director, and so on, they were a little bit nervous that this was all going to work. I remember everybody gathering around the set as we shot the game sequences. Then, the next day, when they had seen the dailies, there was a noticeable relaxation. Everybody went, “Oh yeah, that’s going to work.” I could finally relax. I guess I did. I had seen Excellent Adventure and thought it was terrific. The Reaper was an opportunity to make this wonderful transition, because the Reaper himself starts out as this scary figure. He’s Death, the most frightening image you can imagine. And then, almost immediately, as he starts to lose the games with Bill and Ted, he starts to unravel. And in the unraveling he becomes more human and more likable. I thought that was pretty wonderful, so I went for it. I put myself on tape with [casting director] Karen Rea, and I did the Czechoslovakian accent too. I told them ahead of time I was going to do an accent, and they said, “That’s probably not a good idea,” I think because they don’t think American actors do accents very well, but I knew I could nail that one because I had done it before. The Protagonist in Christopher Nolan's Tenetmay not have a name, but he (along with the rest of the film's characters) has impeccable style. John David Washington's lead character learns about time inversion and works to save the world, all while wearing a collection of incredibly dapper suits. Tenet 's costumes were heavily influenced by James Bond , dressing the time-bending protagonist and those around him to the nines.

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I had seen a number of his films. I think I may have seen The Seventh Seal. When I was a younger actor, I made it a point to watch the Bergman movies. I felt that was part of my training. The takeoff on The Seventh Seal, that’s all the writers, Ed [Solomon] and Chris [Matheson]. That was their humor — he’s not playing chess; he’s going to play Battleship and Twister and Clue.

Yeah. I would love to have sat with the rest of the cast and the crew and eat. You know what I mean? You had to drink from a straw, and you had to be careful. It takes so damn long to get it all on that I was always really super-careful not to screw it up. In fact, by the time we got to the wrap party, there were people in the crew who didn’t recognize me. They had never seen me without the bald cap and the boots that made me six-foot-two. That was fun. I feel like that’s the Bill and Ted joke in a nutshell: You take a highbrow reference and filter it through these California dudes. Well, I was better at it. And I was reading the words of people much wiser and more experienced than me. The second play that I did, The Subject Was Roses — it’s a Pulitzer Prize–winning play about this dysfunctional three-person family — it just ripped my eyes open. I had so much to learn from these great writers that telling corny jokes and playing the banjo paled in comparison. The director called you “unstoppable.” He said you came up with all of his favorite stuff in the movie. The game sequence was always there. I didn’t really bring anything to it except that silly Czechoslovakian character. I made him more vulnerable. I made him needy. At the end of it, when they’re admiring Station’s butt, I added that line, “Don’t overlook my butt.”

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Once I got in this character, I couldn’t turn him off,” says William Sadler of playing Death in Bogus Journey.

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The cast of HBO's critically acclaimed, award-winning series Watchmenfeatures several potential costumes. In an alternate world where police wear masks to protect their identities and masked vigilantes used to fight crime, Detective Angela Abar, also known as Sister Night, investigates the white supremacist organization the Seventh Kavalry and discovers a vast and insidious conspiracy. Masks — and what they do to their wearers — are explored throughout the show, and there is a reasonable amount of skepticism surrounding masks' roles in vigilante justice. That opening sequence, the following day, when they had seen the dailies and everybody relaxed, I think that was one of my favorite moments.