“But honestly, it was a small price to pay for being part of something so special,” Anthony Carrigan says of “Bill & Ted Face the Music”
The day Anthony Carrigan learned that he was nominated for an Emmy for the second season of “Barry,” he was arriving for his first day on set for “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” where news about his honor had already spread, including to Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves. He was already humbled, to say the least, but he then put on a hulking,40-pound robot suit in the summer heat of New Orleans. Carrigan’s role as a futuristic robot sent back in time to assassinate Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan is a sleek white, athletic, full body armor suit, with blue machinery bulging from his chest, shoulders and skull and his face encased in all white. Carrigan told TheWrap in an interview he donned not one, but two latex masks glued to his face in addition to the 40 pounds of costume he’s encased in. In fact, the only way he could keep cool while wearing his suit was to dunk his hands up to his wrists in two separate ice buckets in order to cool down his blood flow. Carrigan praised the design as “brilliant” even as he admitted the “real discomfort” he had while wearing it, let alone trying to act in it, but he said it was all worth it to be able to star in “Bill & Ted Face the Music.” Also Read: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Thought ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Was ‘Never Going to Happen’ (Video) “I was essentially in like a silicone oven, heating in my own juices,” Carrigan told TheWrap. “But honestly, it was a small price to pay for being part of something so special.” Carrigan may have been riding high from his Emmy nomination when he made it to set, but he still had to audition for the villain role in the film, and he said he was so excited about learning he even got an audition that he actually had to pull over in his car to process the news.
