Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Call Each Other 'Husband' and 'Wife' in Texts 32 Years AfterDraculaWedding

Mar. 15, 2025

Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves on Aug. 18, 2018.Photo:Michael Tran/FilmMagic

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More than 30 years afterWinona RyderandKeanu ReevesmadeBram Stoker’sDraculatogether, the pair still like to call each other husband and wife.

While Ryder, 52, promoted her movieBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceon an episode of theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast, the actress said she and Reeves, 60, jokingly refer to each other as spouses when they text each other.

The pair previously said theymay be technically marriedafter they filmed a wedding scene for the 1992 horror movie with real priests who delivered a full ceremony.

“We always say who it is even though it says it on the text,” Ryder said, while speaking to her friendship with Reeves. “So he’s always like— like, on his birthday, I’ll write ‘Happy birthday, my husband,’ and I put ‘Noni,’ and he’s like, ‘Hey, wife, love you! KR57,’ like on each birthday, he’s like ‘KR57,’ or whatever his age is, and he’s always done that. He’s the best.”

“If it involved a lot of stunts, I’m, like, thinking of my bones,” she said with a laugh. “Oh my God, I would literally do anything with him though. He is so special.”

Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in 1992’s Dracula.Snap/Shutterstock

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Reeves and Ryder played Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray in director Francis Ford Coppola’sDraculamovie, based on the classic vampire novel.

Ryder previously said she and Reeves actually got married while filming the wedding scene when she toldEntertainment Weeklyin 2018 that the movie “used a real Romanian priest” to perform an entire wedding ceremony.

“We did a whole take of a marriage ceremony with real priests. Winona says we are,” Reeves later toldEsquirein 2021. “Coppola says we are.So I guess we’re married under the eyes of God.”

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Ryder’sHappy Sad Confusedpodcast is not the first time she and Reeves (who also starred together in the 2018 filmDestination Wedding) have spoken about playing up their apparent marriage. When Reeves appeared onThe Talkin 2019, he said Ryder occasionallyrefers to him as “husband.”

“Once in a while, I will get a text: ‘Hello, husband,’ " he said at the time. “I didn’t really believe her, and then Francis Ford Coppola, the director ofDracula, contacted Winona and said publicly that, yeah, that really happened, the priest did a full ceremony and Winona and I got married.”

Ryder iscurrently with longtime partnerScott Mackinlay Hahn, while Reeves is dating girlfriendAlexandra Grant.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceis in theaters Sept. 6.

source: people.com