Meg Ryan Has Been In The Business For 2,000 Years

NY Mag:

"I've been in the business for like 2,000 years," Meg Ryan said when we hunted her down her at the Hollywood Life House after-party for her Sundance movie The Deal. Ryan had skipped the red carpet while her co-stars dealt with the press, and to find her we had to slip into the house undetected, evading three bodyguards, several clipboard-toting publicists, and co-star William H. Macy, and stand for 45 minutes behind a large Chinese urn clutching a large bunch of flowers while waiting for the precise moment to slip unnoticed into the cordoned-off room she was in. And there we were, face to face with the sweetly smiling blonde we remembered from When Harry Met Sally and other nineties romcoms. She sounded like a crotchety old man. "It's absurd," Ryan said, of making movies. "It's an absurd way to spend your time." But, she said, it's also rewarding. "There's a lot of really great, creative people," she said. "There's a lot of maniacs, idiots, too." Present company excluded, we're sure.

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Comments

[wheelskeepturning]

Acting? For two thousand years, yeah and due to all the surgery you have had you look about that old. What did you do to your fresh, beautiful face?

[KingofChing]

Meg! Stop complaining! You've been stealing paychecks for years. Say your prayers at night, so the producers in Hollywood, don't wake-up and and realize you have no talent.

[Izadora]

I used to enjoy her before the face lift.

She used to be very pretty.

[MikeDu]

I've always felt a bit sorry for Meg Ryan. She's had two careers running concurrently. The pert chipper romantic comedy Meg that everyone knows (and alot of people are growing tired of), and the serious actress who takes risky/edgy roles... that the public never goes to see. She's played more drug addicts that any actress I can think of but we STILL only remember her from "Joe versus the Volcanoe".

[CammyV]

I saw that headline and thought she was coming out as being a reincarnat­ionist...o­r a scientologist. I'm relieved she was using 2000 years as a euphemism.

[Harrier]

I've enjoyed many of the roles she's played and still think she looks beautiful. A nice story.

[WilliamWallace]

You still have it though, Ms. Ryan. I wish you well and many more films.

-A Meg Fan

[UncleJimbo]

She's been in the business for 2,000 years and she hasn't made a movie in the last 1,000!

[LeftVetPatriot]

Glad your lips are back to normal, Meg. They got a little creepy lookin' for a while.

[Theda]

Meg, I love your movies....­including "You've Got Mail," "I.Q." and "Sleepless in Seattle." But please end the feud with your mother. Do whatever is necessary to get back with her. She loves you.

[LastDaysCafe]

No she hasn't - it just feels like 2000 years -to anyone that is who had to sit,for whatever reason,through one of her performances!

[Tator]

Meg Ryan Has Been In The Business For 2,000 Years

And she looks it. Typical Liberal babe.

[TakLoufer]

One of the most underrated (and underappreciated by Oscar voters) actresses of the last 20 years, if not 2000. Juia Roberts has three Academy Award nods and one "Best Actress" but Meg has bupkis , despite memorable work in "When Harry Met Sally", "Sleepless In Seattle", "You've Got Mail", & "When A Man Loves A Woman". And she's still cute as a button.

[SmootyBooty]

It's been a while since she had a hit. Maybe 1000 years...