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Winona Ryder talks about her “husband” and is the envy of the world.
It was nicely over a decade in the past when Winona Ryder confirmed the Beetlejuice sequel. It was lastly launched final 12 months.
Whereas selling Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Winona mentioned one other basic movie of hers: the enduring 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Keanu Reeves.
A part of the legacy of that movie is that she calls Keanu her “husband” and he calls her his “wife.”
Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves attend a photograph name for Regatta’s “Destination Wedding” on the 4 Seasons Lodge Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on August 18, 2018. (Photograph Credit score: Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures)
Winona Ryder is the envy of the world for her ‘husband’
Earlier than you say “big deal, we all refer to Keanu Reeves as our ‘husband,’” keep in mind two issues:
One, that Winona Ryder is saying it in Keanu’s texts, not whispering it at her display.
Two, that he’s calling her “wife” in return.
As you possibly can see for your self within the video beneath, Winona Ryder spoke on the Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast and mirrored upon her decades-long “marriage” to Keanu.
Winona Ryder attends a pink carpet for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” throughout the 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant at on August 28, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Andreas Rentz/Getty Pictures)
“We do text,” Winona Ryder confirmed her her and her “husband,” Keanu Reeves.
“We always say who it is,” she added. “Even though it says it on the text.”
Although neither beloved actor is absolutely sufficiently old to elucidate such an ungainly texting behavior (until you’re a Keanu Reeves is immortal truther), they’re each considerably reluctant relating to plenty of know-how.
The quirk suits the overall vibe of each actors.
Winona Ryder attends a photocall for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” throughout the 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant at on August 28, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Pictures)
‘Happy birthday, my husband!’
Recalling a time when she wished him a contented birthday, Winona Ryder shared: “I was like, ‘Happy birthday, my husband!’”
She continued: “He’s like, ‘Hey, wife! Love you! KR, 57. On each birthday, he’s like, ‘KR, 57,’ or whatever his age is, and he’s always done that. He’s the best.”
We are able to admit that this would possibly sound cringe if this had been a narrative about much less likable folks.
As a substitute, it’s about two beloved leisure icons and it simply couldn’t be cuter.
To be clear, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves have by no means dated in actual life. Nonetheless, greater than three many years in the past, they each starred in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a panoramic adaptation of the novel.
It was, in reality, such an erotic adaptation that it’s unlikely that it could possibly be made in at this time’s alarmingly prudish movie tradition. (Public condemnation of sexuality is a significant canary within the coalmine for the rise of fascism, in order that’s a bit extra severe than it sounds)
Through the movie, Keanu and Winona’s characters, Jonathan Harker and Mina Harker (respectively), maintain a marriage.
As a result of an precise Romanian priest carried out the fictional marriage ceremony, the 2 have since joked that they’re married.
Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves attend a photograph name for Regatta’s “Destination Wedding” on the 4 Seasons Lodge Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on August 18, 2018. (Photograph Credit score: Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures)
They’re not ACTUALLY married
Although Winona Ryder has joked up to now that saying “yes” meant that they had been really married, one could be exhausting pressed to discover a single spiritual establishment or authorized system the place filming a pretend marriage ceremony for a film is legally or spiritually binding.
(Are you able to think about if it labored that manner? Movies must dance round marriage ceremony scenes the way in which that reveals used to need to keep away from “Happy Birthday”)
Nonetheless, it’s downright lovely to see that two of probably the most likeable actors of the previous century have such a cute rapport.
