Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves still call each other husband and wife in text messages years after they were married by real priests in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.
The two actors played Jonathan and Mina Harker in the 1992 horror film and previously Ryder made similar comments while promoting Destination Wedding with the John Wick actor.
“We actually got married in Dracula,” she told said at the time. “No, I swear to god I think we’re married in real life.”
“In that scene, Francis [Ford Coppola] used a real Romanian priest,” she added. “We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So I think we’re married.”
Now, speaking in a new interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Ryder said she and Reeves call each other husband and wife in their text messages.
She said: “We always say who it is, even though it says it on the text. 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.”
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Ryder is currently promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the follow-up to the 1988 cult classic, which comes out in cinemas this Friday (September 6). It sees director Tim Burton and stars Michael Keaton, Ryder and Catherine O’Hara returning to the franchise alongside newcomers Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci.
Ortega plays the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia, and recently sparked memories of one of her on-screen mother’s iconic looks from the film by recreating it during the press tour.
The Wednesday star also spoke about the fast friendship she formed with Ryder on the set of the movie. “It just felt like a free and collaborative space, but Winona and I — I swear we just started talking one day on set and then never stopped,” Ortega said. “You could find us in the same position four hours later never having moved. She’s the best.”