July 27, 2025
Winona Ryder Recalls Al Pacinoโ€™s 3-Word Response After She Said ‘I Love You’


Winona Ryder is getting candid about her relationship with Al Pacino.

During an interview with Elle that was published on July 23, she said there used to be a time when she was โ€œabsolutely in loveโ€ with the โ€œGodfatherโ€ actor. Ryder explained that she felt a great deal of feelings towards Pacino when they worked together on a “Richard III” workshop, which later turned into their 1996 film, “Looking for Richard.”

Al Pacino And Winona Ryder
Al Pacino And Winona Ryder in “Looking For Richard,” 1996.Getty Images

“We were doing that workshop for ‘Richard III,’ which I didnโ€™t know was gonna be a movie. I was actively in love with him,” she said. “He was obsessed with coffee, and he would take me all over New York โ€” like, to the weirdest places โ€” to try different coffees.”

“Iโ€™m 22, or whatever. Finally, heโ€™s dropping me off wherever Iโ€™m staying, and Iโ€™m like, ‘I love you, you know. I really am completely in love with you,'” she continued.

Ryder said Pacino then reached out to touch her hand and told her, “Aw, honey, noooo.”

“Then, like 10 years later, I meet his girlfriend, whoโ€™s younger than me,” she laughed. “Dude, Iโ€™m f—ing throwing myself at you.”

Ryder explained that she still has a good relationship with Pacino. She said that sometimes they play poker together.

“Itโ€™s the best,” she said.

Winona Ryder and Al Pacino
Winona Ryder and Al Pacino during the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award on June 7, 2007.Kevin Winter / Getty Images

Ryder has since moved on. She’s currently in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Scott Mackinlay Hahn. As for Pacino, he’s been in a couple of relationships since the ’90s, but like Ryder, he’s never been married.

Other than Hahn, Ryder has been linked to other famous men in Hollywood, such as Johnny Depp and her โ€œBram Stokerโ€™s Dracula” co-star Keanu Reeves.

In a 2018 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ryder talked about the long-running joke that she might actually be married to Reeves in real life because they had real priests at their fake wedding ceremony for their “Dracula” movie.

โ€œWe actually got married in โ€˜Dracula.โ€™ No, I swear to god I think weโ€™re married in real life,โ€ she joked.

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