Keegan-Michael Key Says He Has 2 Top-Secret 'Bucket List' Projects He's Working on in 2025: 'If Only I Could Tell' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Keegan-Michael Key in September 2024.Photo:Arturo Holmes/WireImage

Arturo Holmes/WireImage

Keegan-Michael Keyis 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 very excited about. Both are checks on my bucket list,” he continues, then detailing, “One goes in the sports world direction and one goes in the action direction, which is very different than a lot of the work that I have done in the past.”

“I got a good feeling this is [going to be my year],” adds the star — who has partnered withJim Beamfor their “7 Stages of Defeat” care package. “We’ll see how it goes.”

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Keegan-Michael Key in February 2024.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

One upcoming project Key has lined up — that hecantalk about — is the audiobook version ofThe History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor, a book he and wifeElle Keyreleased in 2023.

According to Key, he played a very important part when it came time to record the audiobook version of the publication. “There’s lots of characters in the audiobook that I refer to, and I do the voices of all the characters,” he tells PEOPLE. “It was a blast.”

The idea to have him parody various comedy figureheads, Key says, came to fruition thanks to his wife — whom hemarriedin 2018. “I said, ‘Are we going to license the voices?’ and she said, ‘Oh, no, no. You’re doing it. You’re doingDudley Moore, you’re doingJohn Cleese, you’re doingCarol Burnett, you’re doingChris Rock. You’re doing all the voices,’ " he explains.

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“It was a lot of fun,” theKey & Peelestar says of the filming process for the movie, which is expected to hit theaters soon.

source: people.com