“When Harry Met Sally” stars <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/billy-crystal-the-oscars-need-a-host-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billy Crystal</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meg-ryan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meg Ryan</a> reunited to recreate one of the most unforgettable scenes in movie history from their 1989 romantic comedy for a Super Bowl LIX ad.
In the clip posted on Wednesday on <a href="https://x.com/THR/status/1884685444241133715">X</a>, the two movie stars headed back to the famous deli in New York City to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX9qfSEKyuc">reprise their roles in the film</a> as Harry Burns and Sally Albright to shoot the ad for Hellman’s mayonnaise that will air during the upcoming Super Bowl in New Orleans on February 9.
The ad opens with a shot of the busy New York deli where Ryan once again is seated at the same table across from Crystal where the memorable comedy scene was shot 35 years ago, when the two discuss the idea of “women faking orgasms” and Ryan’s character proves how one could possibly accomplish such task.
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Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan joined forces for an upcoming <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SuperBowl</a> spot for Hellmann&#8217;s returning to Katz&#8217;s Deli on New York&#8217;s Lower East Side for the first time since their 1989 romantic comedy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhenHarryMetSally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhenHarryMetSally</a> was released <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/THRNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#THRNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/CeIw6zEhIy">pic.twitter.com/CeIw6zEhIy</a>
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1884685444241133715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
In the new video, Harry tells Sally, “I can’t believe they let us back in this place.”
“Why?” Sally asks, to which he replies, “Hello …”
“Nobody remembers that,” Sally then insists.
Sally then takes a bite of her sandwich and said, “it’s not doing it, nothing,&#8221; before she picks up the Hellmann’s mayo on the table and spreads it on the bread. She then takes another bite.
“What’s happening?&#8221; Harry asks. “Here we go,” he adds as Sally continues to enjoy her sandwich, resulting at one point, in her slapping the table and yelling, “Yes.”
Crystal’s character then quips, “So, this one’s real.”
The scene closes with a recreation of a cameo featuring actress Sydney Sweeney giving the famous line, originally spoken by director Rob Reiner’s mom, Estelle Reiner, in the deli scene in the 1989 movie.
&#8220;I’ll have what she’s having,” Sweeney said.
Speaking to <a href="https://people.com/super-bowl-2025-meg-ryan-billy-crystal-recreate-when-harry-met-sally-hellmanns-commercial-8781563?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_content=likeshop&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram">People magazine</a> about working on the project with Ryan, Crystal said, “It was a really fun idea, and the approach was right. It was our 35th anniversary of the film, and it&#8217;s the first time that we&#8217;ve been offered something like that.&#8221;
Ryan agreed and said, “They [Hellman’s] were so respectful of the movie and of the scene too. They came to us with just an enormous amount of respect for that, for the source material and for the characters.”
Related: <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 Talks About Why She Took A ‘Giant Break’ From Hollywood</a>

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<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.
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.
&#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;
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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.
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>
— Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1719855588505457029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
&#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;
&#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;
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.
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&#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;
&#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;
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.
&#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;
&#8220;What Happens Later&#8221; hit theaters on November 3.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meg-ryan-returns-to-rom-com-circuit-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-10-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meg Ryan</a> talked about the &#8220;giant break&#8221; she took from Hollywood ahead of the November premiere of her first romantic comedy film in almost 15 years, &#8220;What Happens Later.&#8221;
The 61-year-old actress 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 simply wanted to experience more as a human than she had been while immersed in her career, which included being a mom to her two kids — Jack with ex-husband Dennis Quaid, and adopted daughter Daisy.
&#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; Ryan said. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to think of it [acting] as a job and not a lifestyle.&#8221;
&#8220;And that is a great way of navigating it for me,&#8221; she added.
Ryan not only stars alongside David Duchovny, but also directed and co-wrote the new film.
&#8220;It came to me during lockdown,&#8221; Ryan told the outlet about the film. &#8220;The essence of it is these two people who are stuck together. I just love that idea that we&#8217;re held in a space, even if it feels conflicted, maybe for reasons that heal them.&#8221;
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— People (@people) <a href="https://twitter.com/people/status/1717152051879112955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It&#8217;s a little roller-coaster ride between these two people, and it asks the question in a way: Will they or won&#8217;t they end up together?&#8221; she added. &#8220;These are people who broke one another&#8217;s hearts way back when. And I think what they gained is that they have gratitude for that.&#8221;
The movie is about Willa and Bill, who &#8220;are ex-lovers that will see each other for the first time in years when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight,&#8221; a description on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19890316/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IMDb</a> read.
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&#8220;Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to — and annoyed by — one another as they did decades earlier,&#8221; the film&#8217;s synopsis added. &#8220;But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.&#8221;
The last rom-com Ryan was involved in was &#8220;Serious Moonlight&#8221; in 2009 — and the last rom-com of hers to generate attention came in 2001 when she starred with actor Hugh Jackman in &#8220;Kate &amp; Leopold.&#8221;
&#8220;What Happens Later&#8221; hits theaters November 3.

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