Keanu Reeves refused to shout insults at Winona Ryder to make her cry

Keanu Reeves proved his 'good guy' reputation was for a reason after he refused to make Winona Ryder cry on the set of a film they starred in together.

Hollywood legends Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder worked together on the 1992 film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula and have remained friends ever since.

Speaking to the Sunday Times, the Stranger Things actress shared a story from the film set that further cements the widely known Hollywood secret that her pal is a genuinely lovely guy.

In one scene, Gary Oldman's Dracula was meant to turn into a pile of rats, leaving Mina Harker (played by Ryder) in tears. But on the day of filming, the actress just couldn't get the waterworks going.

So, director Francis Ford Coppola brutally suggested that her co-stars should shout insults at the actress to make her cry and, himself, called her a 'whore'. How delightful.

When Coppola asked Reeves to join in on the name-calling, the Matrix actor apparently refused.

Keanu Reeves refused to make Winona Ryder cry on the set of the 1992 film Dracula. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

"To put it in context, I’m supposed to be crying," she said. "Literally, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu [Reeves]… Francis was trying to get all of them to yell things that would make me cry. But Keanu wouldn’t, Anthony wouldn’t.

"It just didn’t work. I was, like, really? It kind of did the opposite."

She went on to explain that she and Coppola are on good terms now and her friendship with Reeves blossomed following the incident.

The friends have worked together on a number of occasions also starring in Destination Wedding, A Scanner Darkly and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

And, in another bizarre incident from the filming of Dracula, it turns out Reeves and Ryder might have accidentally gotten married.

The pair have remained good friends ever since (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Explaining what might have happened in an interview with Esquire, Reeves said: "We did a whole take of a marriage ceremony with real priests [during the filming of Dracula].

"Winona says we are. Coppola says we are. So, I guess we’re married under the eyes of God."

Ryder has confirmed the pair are married during an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

"We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to god I think we’re married in real life. In that scene, Francis used a real Romanian priest," she said. "We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So, I think we’re married."

The pair have admitted to having 'big healthy' crushes on one another over the years, so being hitched wouldn't exactly be a bad thing.

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