30 Secrets from When Harry Met Sally: What She’s Having
13. While filming, Ryan had just started dating Dennis Quaid, her D.O.A. co-star. “They were going out,” one crew member spilled to Erin Carlson in I’ll Have What She’s Having. “She said, ‘I know this guy Dennis. He’s really crazy about me. But I don’t know what to do. Should I get married? Or, what should I do?'”
They wed in 1991, with the couple having son Jack Quaid before divorcing in 2001. The actor later admitted he struggled with Ryan’s rise to fame during their relationship.
“When we met I was the big deal,” the Frequency star said on Today in 2018. “We’d go out on the streets of New York and it would be like, ‘Meg! Meg!’ And I have to admit it, I actually did feel like I disappeared. I didn’t think I was that small, but I was. It was a growth opportunity—I learned from that.”
14. That four-way phone call that takes place between Harry and Jess and Sally and Marie after Harry and Sally finally sleep together took dozens of takes to get right as one mistake could ruin the whole strategically choreographed scene.
“We shot it 61 times! If you remember at the end, they each hang up their phone—boom, boom, boom boom—in rhythm. It took forever to get it right,” Reiner told EW. “We did one I think 54 in, and we did it: They hung up the phones perfectly. Then Bruno blew his last line. So we had to start over again!”
15. Sally’s boyfriend Joe, the one who took her to the airport, was played by Steven Ford, the son of President Gerald Ford.