Meg Ryan on the moment she realised she was a celebrity

Meg Ryan can pinpoint the exact moment she was famous, and it was long before her star turns in iconic rom-coms When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail. 

Ryan, 62 got her start in soap opera As The World Turns in the ’80s while she was studying journalism at New York University.

She told Glamourit was during one of her regular trips to visit her grandfather in Connecticut that she experienced that moment.

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“Everyone was talking to me like they knew me,” the actress explained.

“I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ I couldn’t believe the number of women giving advice for my character.

“I had always taken the train, but then suddenly I was in people’s houses and famous. It was weird, like a smash cut to that moment.”

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It was in the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s that Ryan earned her crown as America’s sweetheart, and she describes the experience as “really fun.”

”What I had in the ’90s was a ride,” she says.

“It was a kind of moonshot and was really fun, but it’s just one ride out of the billions of things you could be interested in.”

Ryan’s would choose darker roles throughout her career, including 1991 biopic The Doors and 1997’s Addicted to Love.

However, it was 2003 role In The Cut that was the most dramatic departure from her on-screen persona.

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Ryan is currently promoting her new movie. It’s called What Happens Later and follows two exes stranded in an airport during a storm.

She stars in the movie, directed it and co-wrote the script. She stars alongside David Duchovny in the film, which is available on demand.

Ryan dedicated the move to the late writer/director Nora Ephron, who wrote two of the actress’ biggest hits – Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.

Ryan is returning to the industry after taking an extended break from the industry.

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“I took a giant break because I felt like there’s just so many other parts of my experience as a human being I wanted to develop,” she told PEOPLE.

“It’s nice to think of it as a job and not a lifestyle. And that is a great way of navigating it for me.”

Ryan is mum to Jack, 31, who she shares with ex-husband Dennis Quaid, and Daisy, 18, whom she adopted in 2006.

   

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