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One of movie history’s most famous scenes has gotten the rewrite treatment for a Super Bowl ad.
Thirty-six years after they starred together in When Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have reunited for the 1989 comedy’s infamous Katz’s Deli scene, according to the New York Post.
But instead of faking an orgasm this time, as she did back then to prove a point to Crystal’s character, Ryan is truly enjoying her turkey sandwich when Hellmann’s mayonnaise is added.
“What’s happening? Oh boy,” Crystal’s Harry character says in the commercial in response to Ryan’s excitement.
However, instead of movie director Rob Reiner’s mother Estelle uttering the iconic line afterwards, “I’ll have what she’s having,” it’s now fast-rising film-TV star Sydney Sweeney.
Crystal told the Post: “She was a great choice.”
“I really had to hand it to (Sweeney). She is game, and funny. Has terrific ideas. Not intimidated — respectful, silly and adorable. Beautiful. She was just great,” Ryan told the Post of meeting the Euphoria star for the first time on set.
It didn’t take much to get back into character, Ryan, 63, told the Post.
“The whole day just felt organic and not forced. We had a terrific director — a whole room of people wanting to be in on the joke,” she said.
Added Crystal, 75, of returning to the famed Lower East Side pastrami place: “It smells exactly like it did 36 years ago when we made it. It was so much fun to be out there at the same table.”
For Sweeney’s part, she called the movie “a rom-com classic,” adding in a statement: “Working with legends like Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal on this nostalgic and hilarious ad was such an honour.”
The two movies stars imagined their characters would still be living happily ever after today and there’s no need for a film sequel.
“We felt, why? They worked so hard for 12 years to get to happily ever after that that’s where they should be,” Crystal, 76, said of the characters. “To me, they’re still together.”