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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. Let's talk about the film When

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Speaker 1: Harry Met Sally. For many, it is their perfect rom

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Speaker 1: com film, their favorite. But interestingly, recently, the director, Rob

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Speaker 1: Reiner did an interview with CNN's Chris Wallace and spoke

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Speaker 1: about how different the film may have been, in particular

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Speaker 1: the ending of the film. Do you remember how the

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Speaker 1: film ends? It's New Year's Eve. Harry and Sally. They've

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Speaker 1: been friends, and the whole premise was can men and

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Speaker 1: women be friends without it turning to feelings or turning

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Speaker 1: to lust?

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Speaker 2: Whatever?

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Speaker 1: So the two of them, they've been up, they've been down,

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Speaker 1: they've heard each other, their friendship has survived. What's going

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Speaker 1: to happen? They're at a New Year's Eve party and

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Speaker 1: then this happens.

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Speaker 2: I have been doing a lot of things as a singer.

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Speaker 2: I love you what I love it?

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Speaker 1: How do you expect me to respond to this?

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Speaker 2: How bad you love me too?

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Speaker 1: That I'm moving?

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Speaker 2: Doesn't what I said mean anything to you? I'm sorry, Harry.

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Speaker 2: I know it's New Year's Eve, I know you're feeling lonely,

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Speaker 2: but you just can't show up here, tell me you

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Speaker 2: love me and expect that to make everything all right,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't work this way? Well, how does it work?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. We're not this way? How about this way.

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Speaker 2: I love that you get cold when it's seventy one degrees.

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Speaker 2: I love that it takes you an hour and a

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Speaker 2: half to order a sandwich. I love that you get

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Speaker 2: a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at

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Speaker 2: me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend

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Speaker 2: a day with you, I can still smell your perfume

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Speaker 2: on my clothes. And I love that you are the

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Speaker 2: last person I want to talk to before I go

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Speaker 2: to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely,

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Speaker 2: and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came

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Speaker 2: here tonight because when you realize you want to spend

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Speaker 2: the rest of your life with somebody, you want the

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Speaker 2: rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

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Speaker 3: You see, that is just like you, Harry. You say

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Speaker 3: things like that, and.

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Speaker 2: You make it impossible for me to hate you.

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Speaker 1: Oh so good, mush, do you know, really, Crystal? Improvise

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Speaker 1: a lot of that scene, those classic lines about I

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Speaker 1: love how you know it's criticles, etc. And I want

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Speaker 1: the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: He improvised all that. Well, that wasn't initially how the

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Speaker 1: film was going to end. Rob Ryiner says that he

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Speaker 1: had broken up with his wife, who's Penny Marshall from

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Speaker 1: la Vernon, Shirley, and he was feeling quite down about

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Speaker 1: romance and what he thought the film should be. And

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Speaker 1: the ending that they'd film was that the two of

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Speaker 1: them catch up again after a number of years, talk

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Speaker 1: to each other and walk away again, so that they

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Speaker 1: have gone their separate ways, come back together, walk away again,

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Speaker 1: and you're left wondering will they ever get together? And

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Speaker 1: the audience is the test audiences like it.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened in the movie the break up.

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Speaker 3: Remember that Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, and it was

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Speaker 3: exactly the same thing. And at the end of that movie,

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Speaker 3: I went.

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Speaker 1: On, but they shouldn't have ended up together. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think this one these two should. Yeah, And by the

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Speaker 1: time they came to film the ending of the movie,

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Speaker 1: Rob Ryner had fallen in love again. He met his

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Speaker 1: wife on the set and they've been together thirty five years,

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Speaker 1: and so he felt optimistic about love. So he and

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Speaker 1: Nora Efron who wrote the film, decided let's give it

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Speaker 1: this ending that it should have. And he's been asked

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Speaker 1: recently what he thought at the same time in that

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Speaker 1: interview what he thought would have happened to the couple,

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Speaker 1: and he said, I think they'd still be together. They'd

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Speaker 1: have had ups and downs, all that sort of stuff,

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Speaker 1: just like any relationship, but they'd still be together.

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Speaker 3: It's like I Am Legend. That's what they do with

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Speaker 3: Will Smith's I Am Legend. Have you seen the He had.

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Speaker 1: A romantic interlude at the end of the film.

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Speaker 3: And ending of that. Have you saen I am legend.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I was the last man.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like the Amiga man Cheltenhester and they take the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: kills everyone in the world who and at the end

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Speaker 3: of it, the zombie munches him and he gets munched.

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Speaker 3: But you know, they tried to get the serum out

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Speaker 3: there so I can cure mankind. In the alternate ending,

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Speaker 3: the zombie becomes his friend and gets him out of there.

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Speaker 1: All I remember is Liam had a sleepover with some

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Speaker 1: friends when they're about ten. Harley put, I wasn't there,

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Speaker 1: and Harley put that film might freak them all out.

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Speaker 3: Interestingly, that obviously not the alternative ending.

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Speaker 1: On that, Billy Cristal wasn't the first choice to play

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Speaker 1: Harry Michael Keaton turned it down, Tom Hanks turned it down,

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Speaker 1: but Brooks turned it down. Richard Dreyfus did. Billy Cristal

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Speaker 1: was a well known comedic actor, but wasn't known as

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Speaker 1: a lead for the romantic comedy and also for Meg

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Speaker 1: Ryan's character. Elizabeth McGovern was going to do it. Molly

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Speaker 1: Ringwood had been considered, Helen Hunt, Meg Tilly, Susan Dave,

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Speaker 1: and the Partridge family.

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Speaker 2: Was also in.

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Speaker 1: La Law and they ended up, of course with Meg.

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Speaker 1: So interestingly, because Meg took on that role, she had

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Speaker 1: been going to be in Stell Magnolia's. So she stepped

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Speaker 1: out of Stell Magnolia's to play the role of Sally

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Speaker 1: into Still Magnolia's steps little known actress Julia Roberts, whoa

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Speaker 1: Sliding Doors Who got that role? It's not on Sliding Doors,

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Speaker 1: that's right, Gwyneth Paltrow. So you know the most iconic

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Speaker 1: moment in that film. I think we either remember the

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Speaker 1: ending like that or we remember this famous scene.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, oh, oh, I'll have what She's happy.

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Speaker 3: That's when I am legend.

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Speaker 1: That's where Sally wants to say that women can fake

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Speaker 1: all gas. Yeah, so they're in Cat's ADELI. Apparently it

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Speaker 1: was Meg Ryan's idea to do the to act it out. Initially,

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Speaker 1: the scene was supposed to be just a conversation, and

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Speaker 1: she said, why don't we just do it, And then

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Speaker 1: the day that they came to do it, she got

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Speaker 1: nervous and kind of half heartedly do it. Did it

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Speaker 1: and Rob Ryaner said no, this is how I want

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Speaker 1: you to do it. He did it, and the whole

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Speaker 1: crew were brilliant and just apported. And the woman who

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Speaker 1: says I'll have what she's having, that's Rob Ryaner's mother.

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Speaker 1: There you go. And this was interesting too, is that

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Speaker 1: when asked Billy Crystal was asked recently if they'd ever

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Speaker 1: do a sequel, and he said no. He said, what

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Speaker 1: would the movie be about when Harry left Sally, when

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Speaker 1: Sally got sick? Let them just be happy and be

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Speaker 1: together forever. And you know whose favorite film it was,

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Speaker 1: Princess Diana. She at the premiere sat next to Billy

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Speaker 1: Crystal and when the orgasm scene started, this is what

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Speaker 1: he has said. She was laughing. So hard she was

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Speaker 1: belching it out. She had the kind of laugh where

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Speaker 1: if you're on a date, you'd never want to see

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Speaker 1: her again. And when the line came in, I'll have

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Speaker 1: what she is having, she grabbed my hand and said,

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Speaker 1: so naughty. Meg Ryan's son has admitted that he only

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Speaker 1: recently saw it because he said, you know what, guys,

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Speaker 1: when your mother is one of the most famous orgasm

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Speaker 1: scenes of all time. It's not the kind of film

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Speaker 1: you go straight to. Okay, So there you go, the

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Speaker 1: story behind when Harry met Sally. You're like Bill Collins,

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Speaker 1: look at me without the jacket. For few