Winona Ryder Shares The place Her Relationship Stands With ‘Husband’ Keanu Reeves – The Boston Courier

Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are nonetheless head over heels in (platonic) love with one another.

The previous “Dracula” costars have identified one another because the Nineteen Eighties and, as they divulged throughout a 2018 press tour for “Destination Wedding,” their onscreen nuptials within the 1992 Bram Stoker adaptation would possibly’ve been legally binding.

On the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast Monday, host Josh Horowitz requested Ryder how “the two biggest luddites on the planet” even communicate.

“I know,” stated Ryder. “But we do text, and we always say who it is, even though it says it on the text … On his birthday, when I’m like, ‘Happy Birthday, my husband!’ and I put ‘Noni,’ he’s like, ‘Hey, wife! Love you, KR 57.’ On each birthday he’s like, ‘KR 57’ or whatever his age is.”

“He’s always done that,” she defined.

Ryder and Reeves had been conversant in one another lengthy earlier than they had been solid in “Dracula.”

“We met in the late ’80s, like ’87, ’88, at one of the early Independent Spirit Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel,” she instructed Folks in 2018. “It wasn’t televised. Buck Henry was the emcee, and we gave out Best Supporting Actor.”

Ryder additionally defined to the outlet that she had initiated their “Destination Wedding” collaboration.

“I emailed him,” she stated, including: “I was so happy because he responded.”

Throughout an Entertainment Weekly interview with Reeves in 2018, Ryder revealed that director Francis Ford Coppola had used “a real Romanian priest” for his or her “Dracula” marriage ceremony scene.

“We said yes?” Reeves requested Ryder, who confirmed as a lot. “Oh my gosh, we’re married,” he joked.

The Romanian nuptials presumably didn’t maintain, nonetheless, as Reeves and Ryder have each pursued varied different romantic pursuits over time.

They’re every at present in relationships with different folks: Reeves has been relationship artist Alexandra Grant since 2019, and Ryder’s longtime accomplice is clothier Scott Mackinlay Hahn. Nevertheless, neither actor has ever tied the knot — besides, after all, (doubtlessly) with one another.