show ad

Brave Cassidy breaks down as six white coffins carrying her parents and four young siblings are carried from their funeral a week after they were gunned down in their Houston home
John McEnroe and ex-wife Tatum O'Neal's son Kevin, 28, arrested in the middle of drug deal carrying six envelopes of cocaine and more than two dozen prescription pills
Obama orders Putin to halt flow of weapons and fighters into Ukraine as he imposes tough new sanctions on Russia's energy companies and banks
Husband leaves his naked wife on sandbar after violent spat while jet-skiing because 'she caught him with another man'
Man, 49, arrested for flying a $1300 DRONE outside the windows of a new medical center where patients were being treated and says he will 'not stop droning'
Mommy blogger accused of fatally poisoning son with salt is on suicide watch as her lawyer urges public to 'keep an open mind'
Hillary's $2,777 PER MINUTE speaking contracts revealed: Clinton demands a teleprompter, can cancel 'for any reason whatsoever', and is the only person allowed on stage
On the path to recovery: Comedian Tracy Morgan pictured looking pained but determined on his way to a doctor's visit with help of a walker after crash with Wal- Mart truck that left his friend dead
Protein discovery that could reverse the damage of diabetes: Breakthrough could lead to cheap drug that would halt disease
Airbnb's new logo sparks ridicule on Twitter - so what part of the human anatomy do YOU think it looks like?
Police search for 'Devil' robber who held up Dairy Queen wearing red-horned demon mask
Mail photographer gets stamp of approval: Special set of souvenir stamps featuring his images go on sale for the Commonwealth Games
The dramatic moment a toddler is brought back to life by hero cop after nearly drowning in paddling pool captured by police body camera
Author Alexandra Tolstoy's Russian lover has $1.7bn assets frozen in court battle with liquidator of his failed bank
The controversial $700 gadget that lets you INHALE alcohol at home - despite health warnings
Search ends for Texas doctor who disappeared while shark-diving in the Bahamas after search crews find dive gear near where he was last seen
Member of French National Front jailed after she compared country's black justice minister to a monkey on Facebook
The boy who was HUGGED to death: Man charged with killing boy, 1, by embracing him so tightly he stopped breathing
From the world's tallest building to the red planet: First Arab spaceship set to blast to Mars in seven years
A Harry Potter rotunda, Willy Wonka glass lift and the 'most significant change to London's skyline since St Paul's' all in the running for UK's biggest architecture prize
This is no Mickey Mouse proposal! Comedian uses all his girlfriend's favorite things to ask her to marry him
More than 300 vials labeled influenza, dengue found at same government lab where scientists recently found forgotten samples of small pox
'She was begging for her life': Retired schoolteacher who 'shoved wife off 800-foot cliff' in $4M inheritance dispute goes to trial
'Treasure trove' of text messages between Aaron Hernandez and his former coach Bill Belichick to be revealed as part of murder trial

Meg Ryan looks gaunt and a little worn out while exiting New York hotel... as When Harry Met Sally turns 25

Published: 19:37 EST, 16 July 2014 | Updated: 19:38 EST, 16 July 2014

View
comments

She was full of charm and charisma in the hit 1989 film When Harry Met Sally.

And more than two decades on, Meg Ryan still looks beautiful, if not a little worn out.

The 52-year-old was gaunt in jeans and a white top as she left her New York City hotel on Wednesday amid the 25 year anniversary of the iconic romantic comedy.

Worn out: Meg Ryan looked gaunt and a little tired as she left her NYC hotel on Wednesday amid the 25 year anniversary of When Harry Met Sally

The actress slung a black bag over her shoulder and shielded her eyes with sunglasses.

She wore her blonde hair in its signature curly short style and appeared to wear little make-up.

Meg appeared to give a thumbs-up sign for the cameras as she made her way to her car.

Simple style: She wore her blonde hair in its signature curly short style and appeared to wear little make-up

A-okay: Meg appeared to give a thumbs-up sign for the cameras as she made her way to her car

Meg is currently celebrating the 25 year anniversary of When Harry Met Sally, co-starring Billy Crystal.

Director Rob Reiner

opened up about the film's most iconic scene in which Meg fakes an orgasm.

The actress was in fact nervous while filming it, he said, so much so that she had to be coached through it by him.

Iconic moment: Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in 1989's When Harry Met Sally, opposite Billy Crystal

Reiner Told HuffPost Live in an interview on Thursday: ‘Meg was nervous. 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.’

Reiner, now 67, recalled how he then proceeded to teach the romcom queen, who is 52, how best to fake it.

‘I sat down opposite Billy [Crystal] … And I’m sitting there and I’m pounding the table and I’m going, “Yes, yes, yes.”

Nervous: Director Rob Reiner had to coach the actress in how to deliver the fake orgasm, as hers was 'tepid'

‘I’m doing the whole thing and then I realise I’m having an orgasm in front of my mother. And I [think] “Oh god, what have I done here.” But Meg then did it way better than I did.’

Reiner added that there really is a Katz’s Deli, where the famous moment between the two characters took place, and a sign there says: ‘This is where Harry Met Sally.’

‘From what I understand people do go there and they act the scene out,’ he said. ‘And people just go along with it.’

Archive: When Harry Met Sally trailer

Teamwork: Meg, pictured last month, and Rob, seen here on Monday, eventually created the perfect scene together

Billy Crystal opened up about how that scene came to be in September, and recalled how Reiner delivered ‘an orgasm that King Kong would be jealous of’, adding that it looked like he was ‘on a date with Sebastian Cabot’.

Crystal revealed how the scene came to be in the first place, as the two leading actors did a spot of improvising.

‘It started in rehearsal, where Nora Ephron [the screenwriter], who was so great, said to Rob [Reiner], “You know, women fake orgasms.”

‘He was, like, shocked — “Well, they haven't faked one with me!”’

Together again!: Billy, Meg and Rob are pictured at an event together in April, almost 25 years after the release of the movie

The 65-year-old actor explained: ‘In the rehearsal, Meg said, “I should fake one. I should fake it in a public place,” And I said, “Yeah, like a restaurant with a lot of people.”

‘And she said, “I'll give a huge one.” And I said, “And then there should be an older woman who says, ‘Waiter, I'll have what she's having.’”’

The scene ended up playing out exactly as they planned, with Reiner’s mother Estelle taking on the role of the extra.