Keegan-Michael Key is making 2025 his year.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the actor and comedian, 53, says he currently has two top-secret “bucket list” projects he’s working on.
“I don’t know how to answer without saying things I can’t say,” Key admits with a laugh. “If only I could tell you.”
“I have two projects in development that I’m really excited about. Both are checks on my bucket list,” he continues, then explains: “One goes in the sports direction and one goes in the action direction, which is very different. than a lot of the work I’ve done in the past.”
‘I have a good feeling about it [going to be my year]added the star, who has teamed up with Jim Beam for their ‘7 Stages of Defeat’ care package. “We’ll see how it goes.”
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One upcoming project that Key has lined up is that he can talk about — is the audiobook version of The history of sketch comedy: a journey through the art and craft of humora book he and his wife Elle Key published in 2023.
According to Key, he played a very important role when it came time to record the audiobook version of the publication. “There are a lot of characters in the audiobook that I reference, and I do the voices of all the characters,” he tells PEOPLE. “It was great.”
The idea to have him parody various comedic figureheads, Key says, came about thanks to his wife, whom he married in 2018. “I said, ‘Are we going to license the votes?’ and she said, ‘Oh, no, no. You do it. You do Dudley Moore, you do John Cleese, you do Carol Burnett, you do Chris Rock the voices,'” he explains.
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Another project Key can talk about is play dirty, a film directed by Shane Black, in which he stars opposite Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar and Dermot Mulroney, among others.
“It was a lot of fun,” he said Key & Peele says star about the filming process for the film, which is expected to hit theaters soon.