Greater than 30 years after saying “I do” in a scene for 1992’s Dracula, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves nonetheless name one another husband and spouse.
“We do textual content, and we at all times say who it’s regardless that it says it on the textual content,” Ryder, 52, revealed on the Monday, September 2, episode of the “Joyful Unhappy Confused” podcast. “So, like, on his birthday I’m going: ‘Joyful birthday, my husband.’ After which he’s like, ‘Hey, my spouse, I really like you. KR 57. Like, on every birthday he’s like, ‘KR 57’ or no matter his age is. He’s at all times performed that.”
Ryder had followers swooning when she claimed a number of years again that she and Reeves, now 62, may need by chance gotten married whereas filming Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the 1992 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
“We truly received married in Dracula,” Ryder instructed Leisure Weekly in August 2018. “No, I swear to God, I feel we’re married in actual life. In that scene, Francis used an actual Romanian priest. We shot the grasp and he did the entire thing. So, I feel we’re married.”
Whereas the pair aren’t romantically concerned, Ryder began calling Reeves “husband” once they chat.
Reeves famous that Ford Coppola even confirmed that they carried out an genuine ceremony.
“Occasionally, I’ll get a textual content: ‘Hey, husband,’” Reeves shared throughout a January 2019 look on The Speak. “I didn’t actually imagine her, after which Francis Ford Coppola, the director of Dracula, contacted Winona and stated publicly that, ‘Yeah, that actually occurred, the priest did a full ceremony,’ and Winona and I received married.”
Reeves later instructed Esquire in November 2021, “Winona says we’re. Coppola says we’re. So, I assume we’re married beneath the eyes of God.”
After their possibly-real wedding ceremony, the friends reunited for the animated 2006 thriller A Scanner Darkly and the 2018 rom-com Vacation spot Wedding ceremony. In Monday’s interview, she stated that their subsequent reunion most likely wouldn’t be in Reeves’ upcoming John Wick sequel.
“I imply, if it concerned a whole lot of stunts — I’m, like, considering of my bones,” Ryder stated with amusing when requested about becoming a member of the fifth installment of the motion franchise.
Nevertheless, she wouldn’t be too choosy when it got here to choosing the proper venture. She added, “Oh, my God, I’d actually do something although with him. Like, he’s so particular.”
Most lately, Ryder has reunited along with her Beetlejuice costars Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara for a sequel to the 1986 flick. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits theaters on Friday, September 6.