Thirty-six years later, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have reunited for a “When Harry Met Sally” sequel — form of.
The 2 are starring in a Hellmann’s mayonnaise industrial that may premiere throughout the Tremendous Bowl and produce Harry and Sally again to Katz’s Deli, the place the 1989 film’s notorious “I’ll have what she’s having” scene was shot.
Delivering that iconic line this time? Sydney Sweeney.
“It smells exactly like it did 36 years ago when we made it,” Crystal, 75, stated of the Decrease East Facet pastrami palace. “It was so much fun to be out there at the same table.”
Within the 30-second advert, Ryan’s Sally turns into very passionate about her turkey sandwich after including a bit of mayo.
“What’s happening? Oh boy,” Crystal’s Harry character says within the industrial, whereas Ryan’s pleasure escalates — imitating how she demonstrated faking an orgasm within the film.
It didn’t take a lot to get again into character, Ryan, 63, advised The Publish.
“There was nothing weird about it — it didn’t feel like, ‘Woah surreal.’ We had … a whole room of people wanting to be in on the joke. That was really adorable,” she stated.
Additionally cute? Sweeney, who delivers the punchline first stated by film director Rob Reiner’s real-life mother, Estelle.
“I really had to hand it to [Sweeney]. She is game, and funny. Has terrific ideas. Not intimidated — respectful, silly and adorable. Beautiful. She was just great,” Ryan advised The Publish of assembly the “Euphoria” star for the primary time on set.
“Working with legends like Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal on this nostalgic and hilarious ad was such an honor,” Sweeney stated in an announcement, calling the film “a rom-com classic.”
However Crystal, who misplaced his residence within the Pacific Palisades wildfire earlier this month, admitted different Gen Z viewers may not get Harry’s Casanova methods.
“That [deli] scene is a comment on Harry’s dating style — [Sally is] upset with him … She’s offended and she teaches him a lesson in front of 200 people,” Crystal stated. “He’s a complicated guy. He’s a complicated character who finally gets it right at the stroke of midnight.”
Getting again into character additionally introduced again a wave of nostalgia for late co-star Carrie Fisher, who died in 2016 from cardiac arrest at age 60.
“I had a long friendship with Carrie. We were pregnant at the same time,” Ryan stated of Fisher, who performed Sally’s finest good friend Marie within the movie.
She recalled truly leaping on the cellphone with Fisher whereas giving beginning to her son Jack Quaid, now 32 and an actor himself.
The 2 have been “talking while I was delivering my son. I said, ‘This is what labor sounds like!’” Ryan advised The Publish.
And as beloved as “When Harry Met Sally” is to at the present time, Crystal advised The Publish he by no means understood why followers wished a sequel.
“We felt, why? They worked so hard for 12 years to get to happily ever after that that’s where they should be,” Crystal, 76, stated of the characters. “To me, they’re still together.”
