Back in the early ’90s, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves filmed a wedding scene in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and turns out it might have been more real than fake.
It has been over 25 years since they made that movie and Ryder made a shocking confession to Entertainment Weekly and more importantly her husband, Keanu. What? She told the magazine, “We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to gd I think we’re married in real life.” Then she explained, “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.”
Reeves does not remember the Valentine’s Day, yes Valentine’s Day, nuptials, but eventually, he gave into the fact that he and Winona are Mr. & Mrs.
Good thing neither one of them ever got married or they would have a lot explaining to do to their new spouses. Plus, possibly the law.
No word if they will annul their marriage or stay married. Thankfully, they have a lot more press to do for their new movie Destination Wedding. With a movie title like that and this development, it will be hard not for the press to press them on this. Right?
Congrats to the couple?
UPDATE: The Guardian asked Francis Ford Coppola about the wedding and he confirmed they might be married. The director of the film said, “This is pretty authentic and I think very beautiful, because we actually did the ceremony and had the priest do the ceremony.” Then he added, “So in a sense, when we were all done, we realized that Keanu and Winona really are married as a result of this scene and this ceremony.”
Now that we know that they are married in the eyes of the Greek Orthodox Chuch, it will be interesting to see what happens next. I mean, do you stay married to the person you have unknowingly have been married to for 26 and half years or do you split up? If you think about it, they have been married longer than most of their friends combined. Now we know the secret to a long Hollywood marriage, secretly being married and not knowing about it.
