Rita Wilson Reveals Why Tom Hanks Turned Down 'When Harry Met Sally' Role
etonline.comTom Hanks and Meg Ryan rom-com that could've been!Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, is revealing the reason Hanks turned down a role opposite Ryan in the 1989 hit, .
Appearing on Bruce Bozzi's iHeart Podcast, on Tuesday, Wilson shared that Hanks was going through a divorce from his first wife, Samantha Lewes, at the time, and couldn't relate to Harry's storyline and his melancholic view over his wife Helen leaving him.Hanks divorced Lewes in 1987 after nine years of marriage, and went on to marry Wilson in 1988.
The pair have been together ever since, and share two children together, Chet, 32, and Truman, 27. Hanks has two other children from his marriage with Lewes, Colin, 45, and Elizabeth, 41.«People, probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered when and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married,» Wilson told Bozzi. «And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, 'I'm so happy.'»Billy Crystal famously took on the role of Harry Burns in the film, opposite Ryan, who played Sally Albright.
The late '80s hit sees Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago.
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