{"id":20798,"date":"2025-07-25T09:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20798\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:43:14","slug":"winona-ryder-admits-to-throwing-herself-at-oscar-winning-actor-32-years-her-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20798\/","title":{"rendered":"Winona Ryder Admits to ‘Throwing Herself’ at Oscar-Winning Actor 32 Years Her Senior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winona Ryder Admits to ‘Throwing Herself’ at Oscar-Winning Actor 32 Years Her Senior<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

’90s icon Winona Ryder just made one of the most candid admissions of her career. In a new interview, the Stranger Things star revealed she was “absolutely in love” with an Oscar-winning actor, 32 years her senior. She admits to “throwing herself” at him, eliciting a surprising response.<\/p>\n

In the mid-’90s, Ryder was working alongside Al Pacino in a workshop for Richard III, later turned into the 1996 documentary Looking For Richard. She soon realized her feelings went way beyond a friendly connection.<\/p>\n

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She told Elle<\/a> she was “absolutely in love” with Pacino. Ryder claimed they were friendly and often visited coffee houses around New York City to try different beverages.<\/p>\n

However, Ryder couldn’t contain her growing feelings, blurting them out toThe Godfather star. She explained, “I\u2019m 22, or whatever. Finally, he\u2019s dropping me off wherever I\u2019m staying, and I\u2019m like, ‘I love you, you know. I really am completely in love with you.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

“He was like, ‘aw, honey, noooo.’ Then, like 10 years later, I meet his girlfriend, who\u2019s younger than me,” she quipped.<\/p>\n

While Ryder admitted to “throwing” herself at the actor, a romantic relationship didn’t develop. Today, they remain friendly. “I still play poker with him sometimes. It\u2019s the best.”<\/p>\n

Winona Ryder is currently dating Scott Mackinlay Hahn, a fashion designer and the co-founder of the green and socially-conscious line Loomstate. They have been in a relationship since 2011.<\/p>\n

The actress’s career continues to trend upward as the final season of Stranger Things debuts. Per Netflix<\/a>, Season 5 will drop in three parts.<\/p>\n

The full synopsis for Stranger Things 5reads, \u201cThe fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished \u2014 his whereabouts and plans unknown.”<\/p>\n

“Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.\u00a0As the anniversary of Will\u2019s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread.”<\/p>\n

It concludes, “The final battle is looming \u2014 and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they\u2019ve faced before.\u00a0To end this nightmare, they\u2019ll need everyone \u2014 the full party \u2014 standing together, one last time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stranger Things Volume 1 airs Nov. 26, 2025, followed by Volume 2 on Dec. 25, 2025. The finale, which concludes the series, airs on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

Winona Ryder Admits to ‘Throwing Herself’ at Oscar-Winning Actor 32 Years Her Senior<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Jul 24, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Jul 24, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winona Ryder Admits to ‘Throwing Herself’ at Oscar-Winning Actor 32 Years Her Senior originally appeared on Parade. ’90s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,21436,21437,21435],"class_list":["post-20798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-oscar-winning-actor","tag-richard-iii","tag-winona-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}