{"id":267620,"date":"2019-02-15T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1015598"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:18:28","slug":"5-facts-you-never-knew-about-meg-ryans-best-rom-coms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/5-facts-you-never-knew-about-meg-ryans-best-rom-coms\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Facts You Never Knew About Meg Ryan’s Best Rom-Coms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She’s Meg Ryan<\/a><\/strong>, the Queen of Rom-Coms.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old actress rose to fame thanks to her leading role in the 1989 cult film\u00a0When Harry Met Sally<\/em>…, co-starring\u00a0Billy Crystal<\/a><\/strong>, written by the late\u00a0Nora Ephron<\/strong> and directed by\u00a0Rob Reiner<\/strong>. In the film,\u00a0Ryan and Crystal play a pair who navigate the awkwardness of maintaining a platonic relationship despite his attraction to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A year later, Ryan starred opposite\u00a0Tom Hanks<\/a><\/strong> in the romantic comedy\u00a0Joe Versus the Volcano<\/em>. In 1993, the two reunited for\u00a0Sleepless in Seattle<\/em>, directed by Ephron, which turned out to be a bit hit. The two reunited and played romantic love interests again in the 1998 film\u00a0You’ve Got Mail<\/em>, another hit, also directed by Ephron.<\/p>\n

Ryan is currently writing her own rom-com.<\/p>\n

“It’s at Working Title Films. I’ll just leave it at that,” she told the\u00a0New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in comments posted on Friday. “My God. You feel like you’re jinxing it if you’re talking about it. Hopefully it’s for me to direct. I’m aware now that romantic comedies are confections, but they have construction. There’s architecture. It’s not something I was aware of back then.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are five facts you never knew about the actress’ best romantic comedies:<\/p>\n

1. The Katz’s Delicatessen Orgasm Scene in When Harry Met Sally…<\/em> Was Her Idea:<\/strong>\u00a0“It was in the script that Harry and Sally talk about the fact that women fake orgasms. Then, when we were rehearsing that movie, we had a lot of time to chat about the script, and I said that since Sally is such a behavioral character, she should fake an orgasm,” Ryan told the New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0“That was my contribution.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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2. But Someone Had to Guide Her Through It:\u00a0<\/strong>“Meg was nervous,” Reiner said on HuffPost Live<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2014. “Obviously, you’re in front of extras and all the crew members and everything. So the first few times we did it, she did it kind of weak. It was a little tepid…I said, ‘Look, let me show you what I want’ after a few takes that weren’t so good. I sat down opposite Billy…and I’m sitting there pounding the table, doing the whole thing.”<\/p>\n

Ryan told the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> that she has never been back to the Katz’s since filming the movie.<\/p>\n

3. Tom Hanks Almost Played Harry and Molly Ringwald Almost Played Sally:<\/strong> Reiner told the Daily Beast<\/a> in 2014, “I talked to Albert Brooks<\/strong> about it. I talked to Tom Hanks about it. I talked to Richard Dreyfuss<\/strong> and Michael Keaton<\/a><\/strong> about it. The Meg role…We saw Molly Ringwald, but I can’t remember how many people we saw there. But Meg and Billy hit it off right away.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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4. Julia Roberts Almost Starred in\u00a0Sleepless in Seattle<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0 She was filming\u00a0Pretty Woman<\/em>, her breakout film,\u00a0at the time.\u00a0Roberts told InStyle<\/a><\/em> magazine in 2014. “I’d been offered Sleepless in Seattle<\/em>, but couldn’t do it. [Meg Ryan] and Tom Hanks are just such a jewel of a fit in that. I guess what they did for that moment in time is sort of what Richard Gere<\/a><\/strong> and I were doing across town, you know?”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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5.\u00a0You’ve Got a Computer!<\/strong>\u00a0Ryan got a special gift while making\u00a0You’ve Got Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Amy Sussman\/Variety\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She told Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2015, “I got my first computer when I did that movie. I think that the company gave us a computer.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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She’s Meg Ryan, the Queen of Rom-Coms. The 57-year-old actress rose to fame thanks to her leading role in the 1989 cult film\u00a0When Harry Met Sally…, co-starring\u00a0Billy Crystal, written by the late\u00a0Nora Ephron and directed by\u00a0Rob Reiner. In the film,\u00a0Ryan and Crystal play a pair who navigate the awkwardness of maintaining a platonic relationship despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 15:02:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}