Rita Wilson reveals that her husband, Tom Hanks, balked at starring in “When Harry Met Sally,” because he couldn’t relate to the character of Harry.
Crystal also talked about the impact of that scene when he attended a screening of the movie at the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles in honor of the comedy’s 30th anniversary. He noted that heafter he and director Rob Reiner saw an advanced screening before it was released.
“ the first time people saw it and it was the first time the orgasm scene — I have to call it that — played, and the laughs were insanely great,” Crystal told “When that scene ended, we realized he and I were holding hands because it was so intense in the theater, the laughs were so amazing, that we knew that there was something special.”“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,” heHanks and Ryan, meanwhile, would go on to collaborate multiple times, starring together in the comedies “Joe Versus the Volcano,” “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You’ve Got Mail.
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