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- Winona Ryder Was 'Absolutely in Love with Al Pacino' in Her Early 20s: I Was 'Throwing Myself' at Him</p>
<p>Jen JuneauJuly 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM</p>
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<p>Winona Ryder and Al Pacino in Hollywood, California, on June 7, 2007</p>
<p>Winona Ryder once harbored a big (albeit unrequited) crush on Al Pacino.</p>
<p>The Stranger Things actress recalled in a new interview with Elle how she was "actively in love with" the Hollywood legend while they were doing a workshop for Richard III in her early 20s, which later was leveraged into their 1996 documentary film Looking for Richard.</p>
<p>"I was absolutely in love with Al Pacino when I was working with him," recalled Ryder, now 53, of her time with Pacino, now 85, in the mid-'90s.</p>
<p>She continued, "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."</p>
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<p>Winona Ryder and Al Pacino in Looking for Richard (1996)</p>
<p>And when he would drop her off wherever she was staying in the city following their coffee hangs, "I'm like, 'I love you, you know. I really am completely in love with you,' " Ryder added. "And he was like, 'Aw, honey, noooo.' "</p>
<p>"Then, like 10 years later, I meet his girlfriend, who's younger than me," she told Elle with a laugh, seemingly referring to Argentine actress Lucila Solá, whom Pacino dated from 2008 to 2018.</p>
<p>Continued Ryder of her infatuation with Pacino, " 'Dude, I'm f---ing throwing myself at you.' "</p>
<p>And despite them not working out romantically, "I still play poker with him sometimes," the Girl, Interrupted actress shared. "It's the best."</p>
<p>Pacino and Ryder would go on to star together once more after Looking for Richard — in 2002's S1m0ne — and were photographed as they hung out together during the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Pacino back in June 2007.</p>
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<p>Winona Ryder and Al Pacino in S1m0ne (2002)</p>
<p>Of course, Ryder has since moved on. She and partner Scott Mackinlay Hahn have been together for 14 years, after first crossing paths at the premiere of her 2010 film Black Swan.</p>
<p>Asked whether she ever considered having children, Ryder told Elle, "There was a time that I was really thinking about it, but I hadn't met Scott."</p>
<p>And while she was "never the girl who dreamt of a wedding," the two-time Academy Award nominee told the magazine that she and Hahn do plan to marry, but she already considers him her husband.</p>
<p>As for one skill from her beau that she can't resist? "He has this gift that my mom had, which is making healthy food delicious," Ryder said. "He made a curry last night that was better than any curry I've ever had."</p>
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