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.”
While promoting their film, Destination Wedding, in 2018, Ryder told Entertainment Weekly – and Reeves – that the two “actually got married in Dracula.
“No, I swear to God, I think we’re married in real life,” she continued at the time.
Ryder and Reeves co-starred 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 (Ryder) and Jonathan (Reeves).
“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 Reeves at the time, and, after Ryder 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.
To date, neither Ryder nor Reeves has publicly married, though he and artist Alexandra Grant have been together since 2019.
Also in 2018, Ryder described herself as a “serial monogamist,” telling The Edit: “I’d rather never have been married than been divorced a few times.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
