Meg Ryan is back after a "giant break"
Meg Ryan is back and she has spilled it all, ahead of her first rom-com release in nearly 15 years.
In an interview with People Magazine, the When Harry Met Sally star revealed the reason why she took a step back from her career.
"I took a giant break because I felt like there's just so many other parts of my experience as a human being I wanted to develop," she told the outlet.
"It's nice to think of it as a job and not a lifestyle. And that is a great way of navigating it for me."
The 61-year-old also shared the inspiration behind her first rom-com What Happens Later, which she directed, wrote and starred in.
"It came to me during lockdown," she gushed.
"The essence of it is these two people who are stuck together. I just love that idea that we're held in a space, even if it feels conflicted, maybe for reasons that heal them."
This is the first rom-com that she has acted in for over a decade, with her last film in that genre being Serious Moonlight back in 2009.
In another another conversation with Interview magazine's Carol Burnett, she opened up about the process of making her film.
"Truly, the easiest part was acting in it," she told the publication.
"I want to direct again just so I can sit in the chair, because I’m sure there’s a lot of things I missed."
"I hadn’t done a role in a really long time, but it was fun with David," she added, referring to co-star David Duchovny, known for his role as Fox Mulder in The X Files.
"A lot of it was done in two shots. I’m proud of that. I set up everything beforehand so that once we were there, it was just David and I trying to tell the truth."
She revealed that the film was assembled together with a very "deliberate" process and a budget of only $3 million.
"We had to do it really quickly. A lot of those extras weren’t even ours, they were real people," she said.
"We went back in post and made everybody the same palette. There’s a lot of stuff you can do digitally now, thank god."
The actress first shot to fame in 1980 for her girl-next-door image, after playing the love interest in iconic films like the original Top Gun and When Harry Met Sally.
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