“People, probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and he turned it down,” Rita Wilson revealed.
Hanks, 66, and Meg Ryan, 61, almost had a rom-com trio after starring in 1993’s “Sleepless in Seattle” and 1998’s “You’ve Got Mail,” both written and directed by Nora Ephron.
But Hank’s wife Rita Wilson, 66, revealed that the “Forrest Gump” star declined the offer to star alongside Ryan in 1989’s “When Harry Met Sally” — also written by Ephron — because he couldn’t relate to the character of Harry Burns being depressed post-divorce. “People, probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married,” Hank’s current wife said on the ““And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy.’ But I loved that script,” Wilson continued.Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks during the “Dragnet” premiere on June 23, 1987.
Hanks and Wilson married in 1988 after meeting on the set of “Volunteers.” Lewes died of bone cancer in 2002. “When Harry Met Sally” director Rob Reiner considered many actors for the role of Harry before ultimately landing on Billy Crystal, including Albert Brooks, Richard Dreyfuss and Michael Keaton.Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in “When Harry Met Sally.”
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