Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves call each other “husband” and “wife” three decades after tying the knot on-screen in a ceremony they suspect could have been the real deal. The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star, 52, revealed the cute tradition she shares with the John Wick star, 60, while appearing this week on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
After host Josh Horowitz joked that the actors seem like “the biggest Luddites on the planet,” Ryder concurred but noted they “do text.” “And we always say who it is even though it says it on the text,” said the Stranger Things star, noting she’ll say, “‘Happy birthday, my husband.’ … And I always put ‘Nonny.’ And he’s like, ‘Hey, wife! Love you, KR 57.’ On each birthday, he’s like, ‘KR 57’ or whatever the age is. And he’s always done that. He’s the best.”
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Winona says they got married on set.
While promoting their film, Destination Wedding, in 2018, Winona told Entertainment Weekly — and Keanu — that the two “actually got married in Dracula.” She added: “No, I swear to God, I think we’re married in real life.”
Winona and Keanu costarred in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic, during which she says “Francis used a real Romanian priest” to marry Mina (Winona) and Jonathan (Keanu).
“We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So I think we’re married,” she shared. “It’s lovely to see you again,” joked Keanu at the time, and, after Winona regaled him with the tale of their potentially very real nuptials, he asked, “We said yes?”
“Don’t you remember that? It was on Valentine’s Day.”
“Oh my gosh, we’re married,” said the Matrix star.
Neither has been married outside of their character roles.
To date, neither Winona nor Keanu has publicly married, though Keanu and artist Alexandra Grant have been together since 2019.
Also in 2018, Winona described herself as a “serial monogamist,” telling The Edit: “I’d rather never have been married than been divorced a few times.”
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News (TNS)
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