Keanu Reeves isn’t the type to parade his partner around town. Having that many people have an opinion is problematic. Reeves publicly stated that he and Winona Ryder were still married. “We’d been married for 30 years.”
We’re Married, I Guess”
It wasn’t your typical wedding with the white dress, the bouquet, and enough relatives and friends to keep you from being lonely for quite some time. They even had a ceremony, but instead of doing it in a church with all of their friends and family, they did it on a movie set with a full crew. Obviously, this did not take place in “real life,” but rather, it occurred during the making of the 1992 picture Dracula
.For the wedding scene, “we did a whole take of a marriage ceremony with real priests,” Reeves revealed. When questioned if they remain legally wed, Reeves said, “Winona says we are. Coppola says we are. So I guess we’re married, under the eyes of God.”
Francis Ford Coppola helmed the new “Dracula” film. Using a real church as the location would be aesthetically beautiful and help him achieve his goal of making the scene feel as real as possible. When talking about what was important to the director, he stressed the importance of being genuine. “Having the real wedding ceremony as it might be in that religion [Greek Orthodox Christianity] would be beautiful,” he said.
He himself has conceded that the wedding scene may be more plausible than was originally believed. “This is pretty authentic and I think very beautiful, because we actually did the ceremony and had the priest do the ceremony,” Coppola said. “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.”
