Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal are together again and, after much excitement from When Harry Met Sally fans, we finally know the reason for their reunion.
Ryan, 63, and Crystal, 76, reunited for a Super Bowl commercial for Hellmann’s more than 30 years after When Harry Met Sally was released. The pair reprised their roles as Sally Albright and Harry Burns, respectively, at Katz’s Deli — and they even recreated that iconic fake orgasm scene.
“I can’t believe they let us back in this place,” Harry tells Sally, who replies, “Nobody remembers that.” After using Hellmann’s mayonnaise to improve her sandwich, actress Sydney Sweeney made a cameo to deliver the “I’ll have what she’s having” catchphrase.
Ryan and Crystal teased their reunion via Instagram on January 22, sitting beside each other on a couch in a near replica of the set from the couple’s interview scenes in the 1989 romantic comedy.
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal created romantic-comedy perfection in When Harry Met Sally — and viewers are still falling in love with their performances today. The Rob Reiner-directed film follows Harry Burns (Crystal) and Sally Albright (Ryan) from the time they meet in Chicago through more than a decade of friendship and missed connections. Written […]
“It’s finally happening, we’re reuniting for something iconic,” Ryan captioned the photo. “Can’t wait to show you all soon 💙.”
Ryan and Crystal starred as Sally Albright and Harry Burns, respectively, in the film, which chronicled their years-long journey from friends to lovers. The movie was directed by Rob Reiner and written by the late Nora Ephron.
In recent years, the pair have reunited on multiple occasions. Crystal and Ryan watched When Harry Met Sally together in front of a live audience in 2014, holding hands throughout the emotional experience. In 2019, they joined Reiner, 77, at the TCM Classic Film Festival to celebrate the movie’s 30th anniversary.
In 2023, Crystal reflected on his dynamic with Ryan, telling People, “We were thrown together by [Reiner and Ephron], chosen to be this couple and you never know — almost 35 years later, we’re still a couple to everybody.”
Crystal also speculated on the enduring legacy of the beloved rom-com.
“As you get further along and new generations see this movie and feel it and watch it over and over again on Valentine’s Day, on New Year’s Eve, whatever it is,” he continued. “You know, people fall in love every day, and people fall out of love every day. This movie is an evergreen that way. It’s a beautiful thing.”
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The following year, Crystal told People that he knew When Harry Met Sally was “special” from the get-go, but he didn’t immediately realize that it was “35 years special.”
“All you can control is the experience,” he said, citing his “fantastic chemistry” with Ryan as one of the reasons the film worked. “And it was a great script, phenomenal director, great director of photography, Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a terrific director himself. It came at a perfect time for us in our lives, and it just felt good. But you don’t know what’s good until you see it all put together.”