Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock remember “they really hit cars” in ‘Speed’

Although the 1994 blockbuster Speed was filled with meticulously planned stunts, one scene seemed too real for its stars.

Marking the Jan de Bont 30th anniversary of the action movie, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock met with the director on Tuesday in Beyond the festivalwhere the actors recalled being “a little uninformed” about where the bus was headed.

“But don’t you remember that day on the bus?” Reeves asked, according to IndieWire. “When we were hitting all the cars on the street? I remember that we were a little uninformed. We were all on the bus and then we were driving to San Diego or something like that. We were located by the ocean and suddenly we crashed into cars. Boom! Boom! Everyone on the bus lost their minds. “People were screaming.”

Although he noted that “I got my bus driver’s license from Santa Monica,” Bullock noted that he “never, ever” drove in the film. “It is not an easy vehicle to maneuver,” he added.

The actress said: “The funny part was that I was at the helm of the bus, but in the back there was someone driving on the roof. Someone was driving and I was being dragged towards whatever. [director] Jan [de Bont] I felt like I needed to crash.”

In SpeedReeves plays Los Angeles police officer Jack Traven, who has to prevent a city bus from exploding with the help of passenger Annie Porter (Bullock), as a bomb on board will detonate if the vehicle drops below 50 mph. The film also stars Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck, Joe Morton and Beth Grant.

Although Bullock returned for the 1997 sequel Speed ​​2: Cruise ControlReeves did not reprise his role. Jason Patrick He played Annie’s new cop boyfriend, Alex Shaw, who has to take control of a cruise ship hijacked by crazed passenger John Geiger (Willem Dafoe).

Of the possibility of another sequel, Bullock said: “It would take a lot from everyone. I don’t know if we’re in an industry anymore that’s willing to tolerate it and be brave enough to do it. Maybe I could be wrong. … Yeah [Jan de Bont] I can’t do [what’s in his brain] for the audience, then it failed… I don’t know what we could do that would be good enough for the audience.”