Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder have opened up about their “marriage” to one another.
Yes, some actors will go a long way to ensure that the scenes they are shooting and the characters they are portraying are as real as possible – but it sounds like Ryder and Reeves may have taken things too far.
You see, back in 1992, the iconic pair both starred alongside each other in Francis Ford Coppola’s camp horror classic, Bram Stoker’s Dracula – based on the 1897 gothic horror novel of the same name.
Coppola’s flick starred Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Anthony Hopkins as Abraham Van Helsing, Ryder as Elisabeta/Mina Harker, and Reeves as Jonathan Harker.
It is during the ’92 film that Reeves and Ryder’s characters are married in a religious ceremony. However, in Coppola’s typical strive for realism – even in a film about a blood-sucking vampire – the priest hired for the film was actually a genuine man of the cloth.
In a previous interview with Esquire, 59-year-old 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.”
Ryder, 52, also commented on her three-decade-long marriage to the Matrix star, telling Entertainment Weekly back in 2018: “We actually got married in Dracula.”
The actress – who was once engaged in real-life to Johnny Depp – added: “No, I swear to god I think we’re married in real life. In that scene, Francis [Ford Coppola] used a real Romanian priest. We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So, I think we’re married.”
But the two stars never signed any official documents relating to their marriage so, as Reeves stated, the wedding is only binding in the “eyes of God”.
Despite being close friends, Reeves and Ryder have never been romantically linked, although they did reunite on-screen in the 2018 movie Destination Wedding.
Of course, Reeves is clearly over-the-moon in his relationship with 51-year-old artist Alexandra Grant – with the pair making several public appearances together over the past year or so.
The couple first met in 2011 and collaborated on a number of different projects. Grant provided the art for the Reeves’ volumes of poetry Ode To Happiness and Shadows.
Per the Daily Mail, Grant hails from Ohio, but grew up in various different parts of the world. As an artist, she’s been working in the arts since graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994. Since then, Grant has had her work exhibited in various prestigious spaces across the world, including the LACMA in Los Angeles, the Galerie Gradiva in Paris, and The Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York.
In an interview with PEOPLE, Reeves shared a rare and tender insight into his relationship with Grant that left fans swooning.
When asked about the last moment of bliss he’d experienced, the actor replied: “A couple of days ago with my honey. We were in bed. We were connected. We were smiling and laughing and giggling. Feeling great. It was just really nice to be together.”
