Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock vow to work together again before they die

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock made magic together on the set of Speed (and, sorta kinda, on The Lake House—though their characters spend most of that time apart). For the 30th anniversary of their genre-defining action movie, the duo spoke with the 50 MPH podcast about their experience working together: “[Lightning] doesn’t strike like that twice, and it struck and no one expected it to strike like that, I don’t think,” Bullock reflected. “There’s no formula” for the kind of chemistry the two actors have, but both would be interested to see if they could capture the lightning once again.

“Before I die, before I leave this planet, I do think that Keanu and I need to do something in front of the camera,” Bullock proclaimed on the pod. “Are we, you know, in wheelchairs or with walkers? Maybe. Are we on little scooters at Disneyland?” She acknowledges that “you can’t force it,” but “if somebody writes something brilliant and it puts us in the right place at the right time,” she’d be open to doing Speed 3. (Bullock returned, sans-Reeves, for Speed 2, previously admitting she’s “still embarrassed I was in it.”)

Reeves believes that “we’d freakin’ knock it out of the park,” and agreed, “It does feel like there is a siren call to it, like there’s something that wasn’t done… and I think I would love to work with you again before our eyes close.”

Reeves and Bullock have both separately spoken about having crushes on each other on the set of Speed, and on the podcast The Matrix star noted that both the actors and the characters “had an affection.” He added, “I think, also, we kind of trusted each other right?”

“Yeah. I mean, people have full-blown affairs in movies, and you don’t feel something between them. And then people can hate each other in movies and you go, ‘That was electric,’ you know?” Bullock replied. “We didn’t really look at each other in this movie except for maybe three or four times, because we were constantly battling the elements. And I think that’s what made it so electric, too, is that, watching it, I guess you want them to connect. That was a really clever setup, to sort of keep people apart. Foreplay, I guess.”

She continued, “But I felt very comfortable with Keanu. There was nothing that I couldn’t try or do or say that he wouldn’t have, I felt, fought for me to do or say or try, and that kind of trust is very rare with actors. Anytime I threw something his way, he swatted it right back and you just go, ‘Okay, there’s my partner.’”