Winona Ryder says she and Keanu Reeves still call each other 'husband' and 'wife' (2025)

Over 30 years after marrying one another in 1992’s Dracula, Winona Ryder says she and Keanu Reeves still call each other husband and wife.

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While the two have never been romantically involved, Ryder, 52, said she still calls Reeves, 60, “husband” when they chat.

“We do text, and we always say who it is even though it says it on the text,” Ryder revealed this week on an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “So, like, on his birthday I go: ‘Happy birthday, my husband.’ And then he’s like, ‘Hey, my wife, I love you. KR 57. Like, on each birthday he’s like, ‘KR 57’ or whatever his age is. He’s always done that.”

Back in 2018 with the pair were promoting their romantic-comedy Destination Wedding, Ryder told Entertainment Weeklythat she and Reeves are technically married because a real-life priest was on the set when their characters’ wedding in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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“We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to god I think we’re married in real life,” she said in 2018. “In that scene, (director) Francis (Ford Coppola) used a real Romanian priest. We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So I think we’re married,” Ryder revealed.

After Reeves asked Ryder if they actually said “I do” during the scene, Ryder replied: “Don’t you remember that? It was on Valentine’s Day.” Reeves, then realized, “Oh my gosh, we’re married.”

When he appeared on The Talk in 2019, Reeves joked that Ryder refers to him as her “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 of Dracula, contacted Winona and said publicly that, yeah, that really happened, the priest did a full ceremony and Winona and I got married.”

AskedbyEsquire to clarify the potential marriage back in 2021, Reeves said, “We did a whole take of a marriage ceremony with real priests. Winona says we are. Coppola says we are. So I guess we’re married under the eyes of God.”

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After acting together in Dracula, the two appeared in several other films together including the 2006 thrillerA Scanner Darkly and 2009’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

When he was promoting Destination Wedding in a chat with PEOPLE back in 2018, Reeves called Ryder a “lovely person and a talented actress.” He added, “I think we make a good couple.”

Ryder told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that she “would literally do anything with him,” with one exception: she doesn’t think she’ll ever be able to join Reeves’ John Wick franchise because of the stunts.

“I’m, like, thinking of my bones,” she said.

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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