Winona Ryder once had a devastating crush on Al Pacino.
The star of “Stranger Things” confessed her unrequited obsession in a new interview for Elle magazine published Wednesday, saying she was “absolutely in love” with the “Scarface” star while they were part of an actors workshop of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” back in the ’90s.
“I was actively in love with him,” Ryder told the magazine. “He was obsessed with coffee, and he would take me all over New York – like, to the weirdest places – to try different coffees.”
“I’m 22, or whatever,” she recalled. “Finally, he’s dropping me off wherever I’m staying, and I’m like, ‘I love you, you know. I really am completely in love with you.’”
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Recreating Pacino’s reaction for interviewer Jeff Giles, she touched his hand and mercifully said, “Aw, honey, noooo.”
“Then, like 10 years later, I meet his girlfriend, who’s younger than me,” Ryder apparently laughed, adding that she remembered thinking, “Dude, I’m fucking throwing myself at you.”
But the “Girl, Interrupted” actor’s infatuation didn’t make things awkward for the two… at least in the long run.
“I still play poker with him sometimes,” she told Elle. “It’s the best.”
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While Ryder and Pacino’s romance wasn’t meant to be, the pair reunited for another acting project.
The duo starred opposite one another in the prescient 2002 sci-fi comedy “S1m0ne,” in which Pacino plays a washed up Hollywood director who finds himself in over his head after crafting a computer-generated actress to star in his latest film.
