{"id":2203562,"date":"2025-12-18T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2203562"},"modified":"2025-12-18T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:04:13","slug":"waiting-for-godot-breakout-michael-patrick-thornton-on-keanu-reeves-what-happened-to-the-savant-and-sian-heders-next-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/waiting-for-godot-breakout-michael-patrick-thornton-on-keanu-reeves-what-happened-to-the-savant-and-sian-heders-next-film\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Waiting for Godot\u2019 Breakout Michael Patrick Thornton on Keanu Reeves, What Happened to \u2018The Savant,\u2019 and Sian Heder\u2019s Next Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">One of the most iconic moments of 20th century theater isn\u2019t two men sitting under a tree, waiting for a God that won\u2019t come, in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0065716\/\">Samuel Beckett<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14507448\/\">Waiting for Godot<\/a>\u201d: It\u2019s a long, unpunctuated speech delivered by the character Lucky that makes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004656\/\">James Joyce<\/a>\u2019s \u201cFinnegans Wake\u201d look like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002133\/\">Ernest Hemingway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cSunset Blvd.,\u201d director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4670143\/\">Jamie Lloyd<\/a>\u2019s ongoing Broadway mounting of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14507448\/\">Waiting for Godot<\/a>,\u201d also starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000206\/\">Keanu Reeves<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0935664\/\">Alex Winter<\/a> aka Bill and Ted, that speech is delivered by actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3694753\/\">Michael Patrick Thornton<\/a>, who plays Lucky as the mostly silent, muzzled end of a slave-master relationship with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0694865\/\">Pozzo<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3089125\/\">Brandon J. Dirden<\/a>). But the twist here is that, with Thornton being a wheelchair user himself, so is Lucky, which casts the character into a new 21st century perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat speech is typically looked at as a speed and volume parlor game, like, \u2018Holy shit,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most iconic moments of 20th century theater isn\u2019t two men sitting under a tree, waiting for a God that won\u2019t come, in Samuel Beckett\u2019s \u201cWaiting for Godot\u201d: It\u2019s a long, unpunctuated speech delivered by the character Lucky that makes James Joyce\u2019s \u201cFinnegans Wake\u201d look like Ernest Hemingway. 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