<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meg-ryan-talks-about-why-she-took-a-giant-break-from-hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meg Ryan</a> said she&#8217;s &#8220;grateful&#8221; to have balance in her life after stepping away from the Hollywood spotlight to focus on motherhood.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meg-ryan-to-appear-on-big-screen-in-first-rom-com-in-almost-15-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61-year-old actress</a> is ready to mount her comeback with the release of &#8220;What Happens Later&#8221; &#8211; her first romantic comedy in more than a decade.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful that I&#8217;m a mom, and I&#8217;m grateful that I have friends,&#8221; Ryan <a href="https://www.etonline.com/meg-ryan-on-her-8-year-hollywood-hiatus-and-why-she-doesnt-think-shes-a-good-famous-person" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful that my life has so many different aspects to it. I traveled a lot. So, by now, I felt like, &#8216;Oh, I have some stuff to say with this movie.'&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Meg Ryan is back in the sparkling romantic-comedy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappensLater?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhatHappensLater</a>. She not only dazzles before the camera, but behind it as well, as director and co-writer.</p>
<p>Read our review: <a href="https://t.co/6tL4jIvCxy">https://t.co/6tL4jIvCxy</a> <a href="https://t.co/5MNZIlYsXd">pic.twitter.com/5MNZIlYsXd</a></p>
<p>— Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1719855588505457029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I have a very charmed life,&#8221; she added. &#8220;People generally smile when they say hi to me, and they&#8217;re happy about some of the movies I&#8217;ve done, and that&#8217;s great.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying anything bad about that,&#8221; Ryan continued. &#8220;I have a very charmed experience, I recognize that. But I wanted to sort of just extend out of that, move out of LA. Just change it up.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Sleepless In Seattle&#8221; star, who took a hiatus from Hollywood for eight years, said she needed to know what life felt like outside of the Hollywood bubble.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working since I was a kid really,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When you start that young — like 19, 20 or something, I was on the soap opera.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And I just always felt a little bit like life was over, like, outside this little bubble, outside some sort of membrane,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And I remember cars closing — like, expensive cars — and then you don&#8217;t hear the outside anymore. You&#8217;re roped off in that part of thing, and I just knew it&#8217;s just not good for an artist or a creative person to have limited life, in a way, to draw from.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ryan recently told <a href="https://people.com/meg-ryan-reveals-why-she-took-a-giant-break-from-hollywood-exclusive-8378793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> she disappeared because she wanted to expand her horizons after spending most of her life immersed in her career. She focused on being a mom to her two kids — Jack with ex-husband Dennis Quaid and adopted daughter Daisy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I took a giant break because I felt like there&#8217;s just so many other parts of my experience as a human being I wanted to develop,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to think of it [acting] as a job and not a lifestyle. And that is a great way of navigating it for me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What Happens Later&#8221; hit theaters on November 3.</p>

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