{"id":36460,"date":"2025-07-25T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36460\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:10:09","slug":"winona-ryder-kept-christopher-walkens-chicken-wishbone-for-a-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36460\/","title":{"rendered":"Winona Ryder kept Christopher Walken&#8217;s chicken wishbone for a necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-star-winona-ryder-reveals-soured-making-movies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winona Ryder<\/a> is happily settled now with boyfriend Scott Mackinlay Hahn, but the actress had a couple of movie star crushes while making her way in the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/uk\/life-and-culture\/culture\/a65473433\/winona-ryder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Elle U.K.<\/a> in an interview published Wednesday that Christopher Walken once gave her a store-bought rotisserie chicken, and because she was so enthralled by him at the time, she kept the carcass longer than normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still have the wishbone and am trying to make it into a necklace,&#8221; she confided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/christopher-walken-never-owned-cell-phone-computer-nice-borrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The pair worked together<\/a> on the 2014 political thriller &#8220;Turks &amp; Caicos.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/winona-ryder-says-a-list-actor-wouldnt-kiss-audition-because-too-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WYNONA RYDER SAYS A-LIST ACTOR WOULDN&#8217;T KISS HER IN AN AUDITION BECAUSE SHE WAS \u2018TOO YOUNG\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/winona-ryder.jpg\" alt=\"Winona Ryder smiling\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Winona Ryder is happily settled now with boyfriend Scott Mackinlay Hahn, but the actress had a couple of movie star crushes while making her way in the industry.\u00a0 (Yui Mok\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/christopher-walken-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Walken\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Winona Ryder once kept the remnants of a rotisserie chicken Christopher Walken bought for her because she found him interesting.\u00a0 (Vera Anderson\/WireImage)<\/p>\n<p>While she didn\u2019t clarify if her fascination with the &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; actor was romantic or platonic, she vividly described her former yearning for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/al-pacino-fell-unconscious-floor-near-death-experience-didnt-have-pulse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Al Pacino<\/a> when she was in her early 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was absolutely in love with Al Pacino when I was working with him,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We were doing that workshop for\u00a0\u2018Richard III,\u2019 which I didn\u2019t know was gonna be a movie. I was actively in love with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Beetlejuice&#8221; actress said the &#8220;Scarface&#8221; actor loved coffee and would take her around New York City to try different brews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m 22, or whatever,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Finally, he\u2019s dropping me off wherever I\u2019m staying, and I\u2019m like, \u2018I love you, you know. I really am completely in love with you.\u2019\u2019 And he was like: \u2018Aw, honey, noooo.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair still made &#8220;Looking for Richard&#8221; about the British monarch in 1996.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She laughed that 10 years later she met Pacino\u2019s girlfriend &#8220;who\u2019s younger than me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/al-pacino.jpg\" alt=\"Al Pacino\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Ryder said Al Pacino rejected her when she told him she was in love with him in her early 20s.\u00a0 (Justin Goff Photos\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Pacino, 85, is more than 30 years older than Ryder, 53.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018Dude, I\u2019m f&#8212;&#8212; throwing myself at you,\u2019&#8221; she said. &#8220;I still play poker with him sometimes. It\u2019s the best.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote-text\">&#8220;I still have the wishbone and am trying to make it into a necklace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Winona Ryder<\/p>\n<p>Ryder met her current love at the premiere of &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; in 2010, and he mistook her for actress Milla Jovovich.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was the most charming thing in the world,&#8221; she said, explaining that she found him later and once again didn\u2019t beat around the bush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/winona-ryder-scott-mackinlay-hahn-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Winona Ryder at a premiere with her boyfriend Scott Mackinlay Hahn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Ryder met her current love, Scott Mackinlay Hahn (pictured here at the &#8220;Beetlejuice Beetlejuice&#8221; premiere last year) at the premiere of &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; in 2010, and he mistook her for actress Milla Jovovich.\u00a0 (Daniele Venturelli\/WireImage)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very direct. I was like, \u2018Listen, do you want to go on a date?\u2019&#8221; she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryder told Elle she already thinks of Hahn as her husband, but they are planning to get married soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hahn is also the cook in the relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has this gift that my mom had, which is making healthy food delicious,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;He made a curry last night that was better than any curry I\u2019ve ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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