If Keanu Reeves is the best (which he is), Mel Gibson might be the worst. Dracula Starring : Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Richard Grant, Screenwriter : James V.

I was like, ‘He’s anti-Semitic and he’s homophobic.’ No one believed me!” He said something about ‘oven dodgers,’ but I didn’t get it. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. Actress Winona Ryder, darling of 1990s cinema, was crucial in getting the 1992 Dracula adaptation made, having brought the project to Coppola herself. “I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harkers fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land. Here’s how she described the incident to GQ in 2010: In the same interview with the Sunday Times, Ryder also discussed the anti-Semitism she’s faced in Hollywood, including the time a studio head told her she was “too Jewish” for a “blue-blooded family” role and when Mel Gibson called her an “over-dodger” at a party. I was, like, really? It kind of did the opposite.” Reeves’ refusal to verbally assault Ryder led to a decades-long friendship (they technically got married while shooting Dracula). But Keanu wouldn’t, Anthony wouldn’t… It just didn’t work. “Richard E Grant, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu… Francis was trying to get all of them to yell things that would make me cry. “I’m supposed to be crying,” Ryder told the Sunday Times about the scene from the 1992 gothic horror movie where Gary Oldman’s Dracula turns into a pile of rats. The filmmaker also tried to rally the film’s male stars, including noted mensch Keanu Reeves, to do the same in an abusive and misguided attempt at authenticity, but they refused. He had been fired not long after filming Frankenstein. While filming Bram Stoker’s Dracula, actress Winona Ryder claims that director Francis Ford Coppola yelled “you whore!” at her while standing off-camera to get her to cry. When John Carradine was cast as Dracula for Universal, Bela Lugosi was no longer working at the studio.

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