Fans of Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail could also be stunned to know that Tom Hanks had one other likelihood to star alongside Meg Ryan in a rom-com years earlier than these movies launched – within the Nora Ephron traditional When Harry Met Sally.
The movie, which options the plain chemistry between Ryan’s character Sally Albright and Harry Burns, in the end performed by Billy Crystal, tackles the query “Can men and women ever be just friends?”
According to Hanks’ present spouse, Rita Wilson, Hanks was supplied the position whereas he was within the midst of a divorce in 1987 from his first spouse of 9 years, Samantha Lewes. Wilson shared the story whereas being interviewed on iHeart’s podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi.
“People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered When Harry Met Sally and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to not be married,” Wilson instructed Bozzi.
Wilson, who has been married to Hanks since 1988, went on to say, “And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy.’ But I loved that script.”
According to IndieWire, different actors allegedly thought-about for the position together with Hanks and Crystal, included Albert Brooks, Bill Murray, Harrison Ford, Michael Keaton, and Richard Dreyfuss. Director Rob Reiner, a very good good friend of Crystal, shared with Variety that he was initially nervous that their friendship could be compromised by working collectively.
“It turned out way better than anything I could have imagined because not only was he great in the part, it made our friendship better,” Reiner instructed Variety.
While each Ephron and Reiner have been within the midst of divorces whereas making the movie, the heartwarming ending of When Harry Met Sally was Reiner’s choice, which he made after assembly his future spouse, Michele Singer. The final scene initially featured Harry and Sally parting methods.
“Because at that time, I couldn’t figure out how I was going to get with anybody, so I just had them walking in opposite directions at the end,” Reiner revealed to The A.V. Club again in 2016.
“And then I met the woman who became my wife during the making of the movie, and I changed the ending.”
This article initially appeared in Decider and was reproduced with permission
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