My Brain Literally Cannot Process 'When Harry Met Sally...' The Same Way After Learning These 40 Mind-Blowing Facts

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The archetypal ending was VERY different.

Rob Reiner's tragic death has had maine reasoning astir the movie a batch — truthful I took a heavy dive into the making of When Harry Met Sally..., and discovered a batch of interesting, hilarious, and heartwarming facts on the way:

1. Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron initially met implicit luncheon truthful Rob could transportation her a antithetic movie, but she rejected it earlier they'd adjacent ordered.

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The adjacent clip they met, she rejected different thought of his. When helium past concisely mentioned helium was funny successful exploring the mode enactment tin ruin a relationship betwixt a consecutive antheral and woman, Nora got excited and instantly knew however she'd operation the movie.

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2. Nora Ephron interviewed some Rob Reiner and shaper Andrew Scheinman astir their dating lives for inspiration for the script, describing it as a "horrifying experience."

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3. While Nora Ephron worked connected a fig of drafts of the script, Rob Reiner changeable both Stand by Me and The Princess Bride, earlier coming backmost unneurotic with Nora to absorption connected processing and making When Harry Met Sally...

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4. The quality of Harry was precise heavily inspired by Rob Reiner and his acquisition of being azygous aft divorcement (from Penny Marshall, with whom helium was joined from 1971 to 1981).

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5. Meanwhile, Sally was partially inspired by Nora Ephron, and galore of her quirks, including her peculiar mode of ordering food, came consecutive from the screenwriter herself.

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6. It was Rob Reiner's thought to see the documentary-style interviews with couples passim the movie — helium was inspired to bash truthful aft asking amusement enforcement Alan Horn's dada however helium met his wife, and watching the reserved aged antheral airy up.

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7. The aged couples are each actors, but the stories they tell were inspired by existent radical — mostly radical astatine the accumulation institution that Nora Ephron interviewed.

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8. The originative squad had occupation deciding connected a rubric for the movie, and Rob Reiner adjacent ran a competition amongst the unit connected set, offering a lawsuit of champagne for whoever could travel up with a rubric that stuck.

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9. Titles utilized earlier the last 1 was decided connected included "Scenes From a Friendship," "How We Met," "When They Met," "Boy Meets Girl, ""Just Friends," "It Had To Be You," and "Harry, This Is Sally" — which was the 1 Nora Ephron liked best, adjacent much than When Harry Met Sally...

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10. Rob Reiner said helium didn't similar the rubric When Harry Met Sally until helium came up with the thought to adhd an ellipsis astatine the end. "The 3 dots were a large happening for me," helium said, revealing that erstwhile helium added them, When Harry Met Sally... became the rubric for him.

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11. Even though helium thought Billy Crystal would marque a bully Harry from the start, Rob Reiner talked to respective actors astir the relation — including Albert Brooks, Tom Hanks, Richard Dreyfuss, and Michael Keaton — earlier offering it to Billy.

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The brace had been champion friends since playing onscreen buddies successful All successful the Family, and Rob was disquieted that casting Billy arsenic Harry mightiness enactment their relationship astatine hazard if thing went incorrect successful the movie. Billy, meanwhile, truly wanted the relation but thought Rob wasn't funny successful him for it, since helium was talking to truthful galore different actors.

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12. Molly Ringwald auditioned for the relation of Sally.

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13. When Harry Met Sally... was Meg Ryan's archetypal starring role, and she dropped retired of Steel Magnolias, successful which she was signed connected to play Shelby, successful bid to play Sally (Julia Roberts, of course, took connected the relation of Shelby successful Steel Magnolias successful her place).

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14. Billy Crystal said determination was just 1 problem with moving with Rob Reiner arsenic a director: "He laughs during the takes."

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15. Rob Reiner was acrophobic Billy Crystal would travel disconnected arsenic excessively "sweet" for Sally's instant dislike of Harry to consciousness believable, truthful helium added the portion wherever Harry rudely eats grapes erstwhile they archetypal meet, and Billy added the item that he'd beryllium spitting the seeds astatine the window.

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16. In 1 scene, Harry tin beryllium seen speechmaking Stephen King's Misery, the adaptation of which would beryllium Rob Reiner's adjacent movie.

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17. Billy Crystal improvised the comic dependable and "pecan pie" enactment Harry does successful the depository scene, and Meg Ryan was so thrown she glanced astatine Rob Reiner off-camera, but helium indicated she should rotation with it, truthful she did. They did 2 much takes aft Meg knew what was happening, but nary felt arsenic peculiar arsenic the archetypal 1 featuring her existent astonishment and spontaneity, truthful that's what ended up successful the movie.

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18. A batch of the Pictionary country was improvised — Rob Reiner told Meg Ryan she had to gully "baby talk," but fto her determine however to picture it, and was pleased erstwhile the last drafting was "so perfectly unclear." The guesses from the guests were each existent and improvised by the actors, too, including Bruno Kirby's iconic, "baby food mouth!"

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19. The infamous fake orgasm country came astir aft Rob Reiner and Andrew Scheinman challenged Nora Ephron to archer them thing they didn't cognize astir women, since she'd been grilling them astir men. She told them "women fake orgasms," to which Rob responded "not with me," and Nora said "absolutely with you."

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20. In the archetypal script, the country didn't see Sally really faking an orgasm, but Meg Ryan suggested she should bash it, and it was past decided the infinitesimal should hap successful an "incongruous place" — which is however it became acceptable astatine Katz's Deli.

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21. It was Billy Crystal who came up with the thought that a chap lawsuit would accidental the line, "I'll person what she's having."

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22. Rob Reiner decided his mother, Estelle Reiner, should beryllium the histrion who delivered the line. When helium told her the infinitesimal mightiness not marque it into the last movie if it wasn't comic enough, she said, "It’s OK, I conscionable similar spending the time with you."

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23. Even though acting retired the fake orgasm had been her idea, Meg Ryan was tense to sprout the country successful beforehand of truthful galore people. She planned out however she'd bash it successful her edifice country the nighttime before.

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24. The greeting they were owed to sprout the scene, Meg Ryan's nerves remained, and she went to Billy Crystal's trailer to speech it through. She told him she wasn't comfy successful what she was wearing, and took a sweater from his wardrobe, which is what she's wearing successful the last scene.

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25. The archetypal 2 oregon 3 takes that Meg Ryan did of the fake orgasm were "tepid," truthful Rob Reiner sat successful beforehand of Billy Crystal to amusement Meg however helium wanted her to bash it — fundamentally acting retired a immense orgasm himself. He later said to Billy, "I made a mistake, I shouldn’t person done that….I conscionable had an orgasm successful beforehand of my mother."

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26. The fake orgasm country gave the movie an R rating, which Nora Ephron described as "ludicrous."

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27. At a royal screening of the movie successful London, Princess Diana seemingly thought the scene, and the full movie, was precise funny, and arranged for a backstage screening for herself and her friends astatine Buckingham Palace.

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28. The movie gave Harry Connick Jr. his large break and his archetypal Grammy. Rob Reiner had asked him to bash the euphony for the movie aft being fixed his demo by a friend.

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29. Tracy Reiner, Rob Reiner's eldest daughter, whom helium adopted during his matrimony to her mother, Penny Marshall, appears successful the movie arsenic Emily, Harry's younger woman — thing Billy Crystal described as "slightly awkward," since helium had known her since she was a small girl.

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30. For the country wherever Harry and Sally separately talk to Jess and Marie connected the phone, and there's a three-way split-screen, the actors filmed it simultaneously connected 3 adjoining sets connected 1 soundstage, delivering their dialog successful existent clip with nary cuts, which meant that if thing went wrong, they each had to commencement implicit again.

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Rob Reiner said somewhere around the 50th take, they got it perfectly, lone for the dependable feline to uncover it had been ruined by the rustling of birds successful the rafters. They got escaped of the birds and continued filming, yet capturing the implicit country from the movie connected the 61st take.

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31. In the archetypal draught of the script, Harry and Sally didn't get unneurotic successful the extremity oregon adjacent repair their relationship — the enactment they had did, successful fact, ruin it. "In the archetypal ending, they drifted isolated and past ran into each different 1 time connected the thoroughfare years later, and chatted astir wherever their lives went, walked away, and the camera pulled up," Rob Reiner said.

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32. "That to maine has ever seemed similar — forgive maine — the existent ending," Nora Ephron said of the archetypal ending, successful which Harry and Sally spell their abstracted ways.

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33. Rob Reiner said the archetypal "unhappy" ending felt close to him, too, arsenic helium couldn't spot a mode Harry would ever get successful different superior narration — until helium met his aboriginal wife, Michele Singer, portion filming the movie. Falling successful emotion with her made him realize, "it made consciousness that Harry and Sally could get together," and the blessed ending was confirmed.

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34. Rob Reiner aboriginal described gathering Michele Singer connected acceptable arsenic similar different 1 of the emotion stories shown successful the movie. Before filming began, manager of photography Barry Sonnenfeld had told Rob, "I person a person successful New York. Her sanction is Michele Singer. You're going to wed her."

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Rob initially dismissed the remark, but months aboriginal helium was drawn to a visitant connected set, lone to larn it was Michele Singer, determination to person luncheon with Barry Sonnenfeld and his wife. Rob invited himself to lunch, and helium and Michele were joined 7 months later.

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35. Rob Reiner said that, adjacent to gathering his wife, the champion thing to travel retired of making When Harry Met Sally... was that his relationship with Billy Crystal got adjacent deeper, contempt his archetypal concerns it mightiness ruin their friendship.

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36. Billy Crystal wrote overmuch of the last code successful which Harry declares his emotion for Sally, including the item astir the crinkle supra her chemoreceptor and the line, "when you recognize you privation to walk the remainder of your beingness with somebody, you privation the remainder of your beingness to commencement arsenic soon arsenic possible."

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37. Rob Reiner's dependable can beryllium heard successful the country kicking disconnected the countdown to the caller year.

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38. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal wholly improvised the "interview" country featuring Sally and Harry.

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39. After the occurrence of When Harry Met Sally... Rob Reiner, Nora Ephron, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan would occasionally sermon a imaginable sequel. But they each agreed each clip that it was "perfect arsenic is."

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40. On the 30th day of the movie successful 2019, Rob Reiner said that Harry and Sally would inactive beryllium together. "That doesn’t mean they haven’t had tremendous ups and downs oregon been connected the verge of divorcement and got backmost together, conscionable similar immoderate relationship. But I bash deliberation they’re inactive together."

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Billy Crystal added, “For each of america who judge successful happily ever after, that’s wherever they live."

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