Meg Ryan returns to rom-coms in What Happens Later first look, talks Nora Ephron inspiration

https://ew.com ^ | August 29, 2023 | Maureen Lee Lenker

[Beowulf9]

It may not be fall yet, but we're ready to send Meg Ryan a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils.

Ryan, beloved in rom-com classics such as When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail, is returning to the genre that made her a star. In What Happens Later, which Ryan also co-wrote and directed, she stars as Willa, who ends up snowed in at a regional airport with ex-lover Bill (David Duchovny), whom she has not seen in years.

[Rummyfan]

When Harry Met Sally is one of my favorite movies. I watch it every New Years Eve.

I'm sorry, but I can't take Billy Crystal as a romantic lead. No way.

[JZelle]

I thought that ended a while ago.

[Albion Wilde]

I remember Meg Ryan when she was 21 years old on the soap opera As the World Turns. She was a great ingenue, very memorable.

Frank Runyeon, Meg Ryan

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Later, which Ryan also co-wrote and directed, she stars as Willa, who ends up snowed in at a regional airport with ex-lover Bill (David Duchovny), whom she has not seen in years.

Does she still have that strange beak?

Is he still a porn addict?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Never watched that soap. Of course, her playing the same age as Billy Crystal in “When Harry Met Sally” was a little hard to take. Unfortunately, she got the “surgery” when she hit the wall, and last I saw had a face that could scare small children (and grown men, too). Well, at least she didn’t go full Joan Van Ark. You never go full Joan Van Ark.

[SuperLuminal]

Meg Ryan?
She must be getting work-release time from that old folks retirement home...

[Sioux-san]

👍

[leaning conservative]

Agree. She looks pretty back to normal.

[Albion Wilde]

never go full Joan Van Ark.

LOL!

[MayflowerMadam]

“Willa, is a magical thinker and ... Bill, is a catastrophic thinker,”

Both should run from each other as quickly as possible. (Don’t ask me how I know.)

[MayflowerMadam]

She didn’t have a huge part in Top Gun, but she did a great job. For me, that was her best.

Her face. So cute. WHAT WAS SHE THINKING? Just leave it alone and age naturally. I think Diane Keaton has avoided the surgeon’s knife and she always looks good.

[MayflowerMadam]

I thought Van Ark’s face looked “off” way before plastic surgery. Always, really.

[Joe 6-pack]

I liked her in The Presidio, with Mark Harmon playing Gibbs long before he was cast as Gibbs.

[Sirius Lee]

who? what?

[Seruzawa]

Lindsay Wagner also aged naturally. It takes guts for an entertainer to do that. Kate Winslet and Halle Berry. Still gorgeous to my 74 year old eyes.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP Markie Post.

[1Old Pro]

So she’s finally over that Gladiator guy?

I thought she was stuck on John Mellencamp

[JZelle]

Yes, that was more recent but I believe she broke up with him because he’s a self admitted overbearing narcissistic jerk. I remember her being really torn up when Crowe broke up with her.

[wildbill]

I think Top Gun was where I fell in love with her as a fan. Hope her new venture will work out.

[NetAddicted]

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