One of Winona Ryder’s most remembered roles is that of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). The film adaptation of the famous novel was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, and Richard E. Grant. Coppola went so far as to make Ryder cry in one scene, but was unsuccessful.
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That story was first revealed by the Stranger Things star to the paper. the sunday times And some confusion arose. According to Ryder, Coppola asked his co-stars to insult him during filming in order to elicit an emotional response. But Reeves, who played Jonathan Harker, and Anthony Hopkins, who played Van Helsing, declined.
The moment is where Mina is in bed with Draculaura and he turns into a horde of rats. As Ryder remembers, Coppola kept yelling behind the camera, “You bitch! Bitch!” Due to which she started crying bitterly.
Ryder continued, “Literally Richard, Anthony, Keanu… Francis was trying to get everyone to yell things at me that would make me cry. But Keanu wouldn’t do it. Anthony wouldn’t.” “As this was happening, I thought, ‘This doesn’t work. Is this really true?’ It somehow provoked a contradiction in me.”
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