Nora Ephron Was So Much More Than Her Most Famous Films
Many people know Nora Ephron from her most beloved movies When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail. Her strong characters and trademark wit redefined an entire genre and rightly earned her a place in Hollywood history. But while she is often remembered as the romcom queen, that’s far from the most interesting thing about her. Ephron, an acclaimed director, screenwriter, author, and journalist, led a life unlike any other — and you probably know only a fraction of it.
Born to be a writer
To understand who Nora Ephron was and how she came to have such a huge influence, we should go back to the beginning. Considering her family background, many believe Ephron was destined to find the vocation she did; writing was in her blood.
Her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both playwrights and screenwriters, and this must have rubbed off on their children somewhere along the way. Ephron and her three sisters — Delia, Amy, and Hallie — were all born with pens in their hands. Not literally, of course, but they all became writers.
“Everything is copy”
Life wasn’t always easy for the Ephron sisters growing up. “My mother drank; my father drank, too,” Hallie wrote in 2013 for O, The Oprah Magazine. “Alcohol ignited her anger, and sometimes they fought from midnight to dawn.” But there were always books.
Their mother regularly introduced poetry and books over the dinner table, and classics such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz would go on to influence her daughters’ lives into adulthood. Ephron’s famous words “Everything is copy,” for instance, came from her mother.
Showing promise from a young age
Ephron, in turn, influenced her parents, even from a young age. When she went away to college, her parents used the letters she sent home as inspiration for their screenplay for Take Her, She’s Mine (1963). After leaving education, the bright young Ephron made a triumphant entry into the world of work.
In 1961 she got her foot in the door of the White House, hired as an intern in the press office. “Every eight-hour day there were theoretically 48,000 words that weren't being typed because I didn't have a desk,” she wrote in 2003 for The New York Times. It was here that she met then-President John F. Kennedy.
A strange encounter
Ephron recalled speaking to the President back then, but the exchange was rendered all-but-incomprehensible due to the whirr of helicopter blades in the background. “The noise was deafening, but he spoke to me,” she remembered. “I couldn't hear a thing, but I read his lips… I'm pretty sure what he said was, ’How are you coming along?’ But I wasn't positive.”
“So I replied as best I could,” Ephron continued. “‘What?’ I said. And that was it.” She also mused, “It has become horribly clear to me that I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House whom the President did not make a pass at.”
Breaking into journalism
Ephron’s time at the White House didn’t last long, and she soon moved on to something that she was really passionate about: journalism. Well, sort of. Newspapers in the 1960s weren’t exactly welcoming female writers with open arms, so she had to start out at the bottom; she got a job as mail girl for Newsweek.
Ephron got her first big break in the industry during the 1962 newspaper strike. The New York Post staff were among the strikers, and Newsweek poked fun at them in a satirical piece to which Ephron contributed. But far from being angry, The Post was impressed by her work.
Making a name for herself
The New York Post hired the budding reporter, and she broke some big stories in her time there. Take Bob Dylan’s marriage, for instance: the singer married Sandra Lownds in 1966, and the couple managed to keep their wedding a secret for over three months — until Ephron broke the news.
It was a huge story, and it did a lot for her reputation as a writer at the time. However, Ephron didn’t look back favorably on her time at the publication. “The Post was a terrible newspaper in the era I worked there,” she once wrote.
Climbing the ranks
All the same, the experience served Ephron well. She began writing a column for Esquire that focused on women’s issues and feminist topics. Ephron was really starting to make a name for herself in this arena; she was doing something really different.
Ephron was at the forefront of the conversation, giving exposure to some of the era’s big names in feminism, such as Betty Friedan and Dorothy Schifff. She also wrote about sex and food — topics for which she’d become famous — in addition to her beloved New York City.
Finding her niche
Ephron’s articles were so popular that they were compiled together in several volumes. Wallflower at the Orgy and Crazy Salad were the first two, and by the time her essay A Few Words About Breasts came along, she was really in her element.
In true feminist fashion, Ephron ruffled a few feathers along the way. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but some people disagreed with her controversial work about Linda Lovelace, an actress famous for her roles in adult movies.
“A puritanical feminist”
Linda Lovelace is famous — or in some circles, infamous — for her performance in 1972’s Deep Throat, and Ephron interviewed her. At the time, Lovelace was seen as a figurehead of the sexual revolution and Ephron didn’t think too favorably of the movie.
In fact, Ephron said Deep Throat was “one of the most unpleasant, disturbing films I have ever seen” and mused about whether that opinion made her “a puritanical feminist who had lost her sense of humor at a skin flick.” Lovelace later said she had taken part in the film against her will.
Polarizing reactions
It wasn’t the only thing that Ephron wrote that divided feminist opinions, either. She also authored a few papers that drew some polarizing reactions from women. Among them were topics such as how she considered herself unattractive and what it was like having dark hair.
These essays included such comments as, “If there's anything more boring to me than the problems of big‐busted women, it's the problems of beautiful women,” and, “Being blond doesn't hurt.” Still, whichever way you look at these assessments, they didn’t hold Ephron back.
The Watergate scandal
This wasn’t the only connection Ephron had to Deep Throat, though this time we’re talking about a completely different context: Deep Throat was also the pseudonym of the anonymous source who secretly leaked information to reporters on the Watergate scandal. Many people don’t know Ephron’s involvement in the case.
We now know that Deep Throat’s real name was Mark Felt, but at the time this was a closely guarded secret. Ephron was one of the few people who knew his true identity. For four years in the ’70s, she was married to Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who broke the scandal.
Living with a secret
“For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep Throat's identity,” Ephron wrote in an article for Huffpost in 2011. “It has been Hell, and I have dealt with the situation by telling pretty much anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was.”
“I knew that Deep Throat was Mark Felt because I figured it out,” Ephron continued. “Carl Bernstein, to whom I was married for a brief time, certainly would never have told me; he was far too intelligent to tell me a secret like that.”
"No one really listened to any of us"
“He refused to tell his children too, who are also my children,” Ephron recalled. “So I told them, and they told others, and even so, years passed and no one really listened to any of us. There were theories… Henry Kissinger's name came up.”
Ephron elaborated, “I mean, really. Why these people with these ludicrous theories didn't call me I cannot imagine. I am listed.” She said there were lots of clues, the fact that Bernstein called Deep Throat “my friend” and the discovery of his initials among them.
A big break
It was around this time, while Ephron was struggling with this secret, that she found her path into the film industry. She and her husband worked on a script for All the President's Men, and though it wasn’t used, someone read it and gave Ephron her first screenwriting job.
Then, in 1983, she co-wrote the screenplay for a movie called Silkwood, which told the story of a whistleblower at a nuclear plant. This was big for Ephron; the film had a prestigious cast, including Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell, and earned an Academy Award nomination. Oddly, however, Silkwood is a relatively obscure movie in Ephron’s legacy today.
Heartburn
Films like Silkwood helped Ephron make all-important connections in the industry, the aforementioned Streep being among them. The two became close friends, and Streep starred in another movie written by Ephron a few years later: 1986’s Heartburn, which is based on Ephron’s successful novel of the same name.
The film received mixed reviews, but it did nothing to harm their friendship. In her memorial to Ephron, Streep referred to the writer as “the hub of a friendship wheel.” Since the Ephron’s passing in 2012, people are finding more appreciation for diamonds in the rough like Heartburn.
Mixed reviews
For lovers of the romcom genre, Ephron’s other works may be less familar. Take 1994’s Mixed Nuts, for instance, a festive dark comedy starring Steve Martin and Adam Sandler, which has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 13 percent at the time of writing. It was both a commercial and critical flop.
For many of her fans, it’s a far cry from some of her beloved work: Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, and When Harry Met Sally, to name the most famous. The final feature film she ever directed was Julie & Julia, again starring her friend Streep. This movie tied in with another passion of Ephron’s: cooking.
Julie & Julia
Ephron’s love of food was a theme in much of her work — from her early days as a columnist to directing Julie & Julia, a film entirely about cooking. She first fell in love with food after reading Julia Child’s 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and it had a profound impact on her.
“If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there’s slightly too much food,” Ephron once told Epicurious. “I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.” Cooking had such an impact on her life that Ephron even created her own recipe book, which she gave to friends and family upon her passing. But it is yet to be made public.
When Harry Met Sally
Maybe it’s fitting, then, that Ephron’s arguably most memorable movie moment takes place in a restaurant. Yes, we’re obviously talking about that scene in When Harry Met Sally. The real-life setting where Meg Ryan delivers that iconic line is the legendary Katz’s Deli, the oldest Jewish delicatessen in New York City.
When Harry Met Sally was the first of the three big hits for Ephron — the holy trinity, as some fans know them — that would come to redefine the romcom genre as we know it and cement her place as one of Hollywood’s most famous romance writers ever. Little-known fact: Ryan’s famous fake orgasm noises weren’t in Ephron’s original script!
Developing style
When Harry Met Sally was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It was also Ephron’s first time working with Meg Ryan, which would become more than just a business relationship; they became fast friends, in part because of their similar energy and style.
Nothing exemplifies their similarities more than Ryan’s tribute to Ephron, which she shared with The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. “It’s good that she did a movie about food [Julie & Julia],” Ryan said, “because with her, everything is a metaphor, right? It’s important to do everything just so in a recipe, and the same thing with how you layer in elements of a movie.”
Behind the lens
Ryan was a big part of Ephron’s successful ingredients, particularly in the years to come. They inspired each other: Ryan later transitioned to working behind the camera as a director and a producer thanks in part to Ephron’s influence.
While Hollywood was disregarding romcoms for their whimsy, Ryan said Ephron saw their worth. "Think about Nora Ephron. Her observation about romantic comedies is that they were commenting on their time in an intelligent way, but with the intention to delight,” Ryan told The New York Times in 2019.
Annie Reed was written for Ryan
In fact, Ephron wrote the role of Annie Reed in Sleepless in Seattle with Ryan in mind. According to producer Gary Foster, Ephron told him, “I’m writing this for Meg. She needs to play this part.” Ryan had already established herself as a successful female comedy lead for Ephron in When Harry Met Sally.
“She had a lot of faith in me by then!” Ryan once said of Ephron in an interview with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The actress, of course, was a perfect fit; Annie is spirited, mischievous, and a little frazzled, three comedic traits that Ryan excels at portraying on screen.
Perfect partners
Ephron wrote successful romcoms because she understood their essence, and since Ryan was on the same wavelength, they were the ideal partners. Sleepless in Seattle proved once again that Ryan and Ephron were an unstoppable combination. And, of course, there was Tom Hanks.
It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, not only for Ryan and Hanks, but also for Hanks and Ephron. Naturally, they worked closely together, and she touched Hanks’ life just as much as Ryan’s.
“I wouldn’t be a writer if it wasn’t for Nora Ephron”
Hanks said in a 2023 interview with Literary Hub, “[Ephron] put in something that had come out in our rehearsal process. When it was done, she said, ‘You wrote that!’ And I said, ‘I didn’t write that! I was just complaining during rehearsal, and you put it in.’”
“And Nora says, ‘Well, that’s what writing is, isn’t it?’ Hanks continued. From then on, I would always send her something and say, ‘Is this writing?’ She would always come back and she says, ‘It is writing, but you ain’t done writing it. So get back to work.’”
Hanks initially turned down the role
Who can effortlessly elicit sobs, laughs, and cheers in the span of one movie? Tom Hanks, of course! His unique ability to inject empathy and humor into every role made him the perfect candidate for the role of widower Sam Baldwin. But surprisingly, Hanks didn’t jump at the opportunity at first.
Before Ephron turned the script into the charming rom-com it is today, the story was apparently much heavier — and Hanks wanted nothing to do with it. It wasn’t until Ephron took the reins that Hanks reconsidered his decision and took the role.
Musical understanding
There’s no doubt that Ephron’s deep connection and understanding with her actors contributed to her redefining the romcom, as Ryan and Hanks proved when they melted hearts all over again in 1998 hit You’ve Got Mail. But there were other factors too, such as her understanding of music.
Ephron knew how to aim for the feels when it came to musical scores. Take the song “Over the Rainbow” for example, first used in The Wizard of Oz. She uses it in both Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail to invoke feelings of nostalgia. In time, she almost became as famous for her soundtracks as she did for her movies!
Sister act
But did you know Ephron worked with her sisters on some of her movies? She collaborated with her writer siblings on numerous occasions; when she did, they made magic. On You’ve Got Mail, Ephron worked with sister Delia, and Ryan can vouch for their synchronicity.
“Her screenwriting collaboration with her sister Delia is so dear and fine,” Ryan told The Hollywood Reporter. “Sisters who love each other as people and inspire each other as writers. It made my heart so full, you know?”
"She was hardworking, with seemingly boundless energy”
As children, Ephron’s sisters could knew that she was special. “She... had an uncanny sense of what was soon to be current,” Hallie wrote for O, The Oprah Magazine. “She wrote about quiche before many of us had tasted, never mind baked, one. She wrote about breasts before we were comfortable seeing the word in print.”
“Her essays on aging had a generation of women obsessing over their necks,” Hallie continued. “Living as she did through the birth — and some would say death — of Women's Lib, she was a feminist. But she bristled at being labeled. She led by example, not by carrying placards. She was hardworking, with seemingly boundless energy.”
Fighting leukemia
“Even in her last week in the hospital, fighting leukemia and exhausted from chemo, she was developing a new project,” Hallie elaborated. When Ephron passed away, it shocked not only her fans, but some of her best friends as well; few people had known she was so sick, because she’d kept the information to herself. She did hint at the truth through her work, though.
Two of her final essays were titled, “What I Won’t Miss” and “What I Will Miss.” Her secrecy didn’t surprise Hallie. “It made perfect sense to me that she didn't tell many of her closest friends how sick she was,” she said. “Beyond this, I knew her well enough to know I didn’t know her that well at all.”
Saving the dying romcom
When Ephron passed away in 2012, she left quite the legacy behind her. She inspired her parents, her friends, her sisters. She changed the face of an entire genre of movies. Arguably, she even saved the romcom altogether.
“The box office loved her, her audience loved her, but the genre itself was diminished at the time, and she never got the critics’ respect that she deserved,” explained Ephron’s friend and Sleepless in Seattle producer Lynda Obst said in a 2019 interview with Entertainment Weekly.
"Perfect structure"
Obst continued, “She was doing a genre that both women critics and men critics felt very comfortable in putting down. So the quality of her wit, the perfect structure of her screenplays weren’t acknowledged as widely as they should have been.”
“In her absence, at the same time the romcom had died, and we realized its avatar was gone,” Obst elaborated. “There are very few writers whose humor doesn’t come from pratfalls, butt jokes, and poop. Her jokes came from dialog and character. And that takes a level of writing that I haven’t seen since she died.”
"A citizen of the world"
“A classic movie is a rare thing,” Obst concluded. “Nora saw herself as a citizen of the world, and her screenwriting is part of that. And her career, for that reason, has a tremendous humanity that… I think that will help her live on through many more generations.”
“What makes her a singular voice, both to me as a mentor and to me as a director and a writer, is she knew her point of view was so incredibly strong,” Obst said. “She knew right from wrong. She knew funny from not funny. She knew her instincts were unerring and never not confident. And that’s a director.”
Ephron was inspired by a 1950s film
An Affair to Remember tells a timeless story of a couple who meet, fall in love, and decide to spend a year apart before meeting at the top of the Empire State Building. The heart-wrenching story is bound to leave anyone with tears in their eyes… even a young Ephron, who first saw the film in theaters when it premiered in 1957.
The film introduced Ephron to the idea of hard-won love and destiny, two themes that would pop up in many of Ephron’s future works. She was truly inspired, especially when she was able to meet Cary Grant himself after the film!
Rita Wilson wanted to play a different role in Sleepless in Seattle
Rita Wilson and Hanks played siblings in Sleepless in Seattle, but in real life, they’ve been married since 1988. Wilson’s role as Suzy may have been small, but it was definitely memorable: her tearing up over An Affair to Remember will always be funny. Still, Wilson originally hoped to play a much different and bigger role: Becky, Annie’s best friend.
As fans of the film know, Rosie O’Donnell ended up playing the wise-cracking Becky. It looked like Wilson was out of the job… until Ephron saw her audition and was so charmed that she cast her as Hanks’ sister.
Ephron made a cameo in Sleepless in Seattle
When Jonah convinces his father to talk to Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, a counselor with a late-night radio show, the radio show names him “Sleepless in Seattle.” And when Annie hears Sam’s emotional conversation with the therapist on the radio, she instantly falls for him — and, it seems, for the radio show, as she listens to it again later on in the movie.
We hear a few snippets of the program, including one where Dr. Fieldstone talks to someone named “Depressed in Denver.” And if you listen carefully, you'll hear the voice of Ephron herself, who made a cameo as "Depressed in Denver."
Annie originally had a much darker backstory
Sleepless may be a romantic comedy, but just like the film by which it’s inspired, it has some truly heart-wrenching moments. For example, most of Sam’s backstory revolves around him not being ready to fall in love again after suffering the loss of his wife. The fact that Annie is dating the likable Walter helps bring some levity to the film, but this lightheartedness — and Walter himself — weren’t always in the script.
Originally, Annie is recovering from a harmful love affair when she first falls in love with Sam via radio. Ephron decided to cut this detail from the film because it paled in comparison to Sam’s loss.
The iconic Dirty Dozen scene was improvised
One of the most iconic scenes in the film is when Suzy tries to explain the significance of An Affair to Remember to Sam and her husband, Greg. She dissolves into tears while recounting the climax of the film, so Sam and Greg mimic her tears while recounting the plot of The Dirty Dozen. What makes this scene so special, you ask?
Well, Ephron rarely liked it when actors strayed from her script, but that’s exactly what Hanks and Victor Garber did in this scene. The Dirty Dozen scene was totally improvised, and Ephron liked it so much that she kept it in the final cut.
Julia Roberts turned down Sleepless in Seattle
Ryan may have been "Queen of the Rom-Coms," but a few actors at the time were close on her heels. Although Ephron wrote the role of Annie with Ryan in mind, she knew she had to keep her options open in case the star couldn’t commit. She considered other popular actors of the time, including Michelle Pfeiffer, Kim Basinger, and Jodie Foster, all of whom would’ve brought a darker edge to the part.
Julia Roberts was actually offered the part, but she had to turn it down. We all love a Roberts romcom, but it all worked out for the best; Sleepless wouldn’t be the same without Ryan’s unique charm!
Nora’s sister, Delia, wrote a few iconic scenes
Jeff Arch’s screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle went through a number of rewrites before it made it to the big screen, the most major rewrite being Ephron’s. There were certain key scenes that Ephron struggled with, though, so she brought in her secret weapon: her sister, Delia. It’s thanks to Delia that the scene where Jessica reveals that Jonah has secretly flown to New York to meet Annie is as funny as it is.
The fact that Sam and Annie almost miss each other at the Empire State Building — they only meet because Jonah forgot his backpack on the observation deck — was also Delia’s handiwork.
Ephron’s use of color was very purposeful
Since the two main love interests barely share the screen together, it was essential for the audience to still be able to sense a connection between them. One way Ephron and production designer Jeffrey Townsend accomplished this was by using color very advantageously. In the crowded airport scene where Sam and Annie first cross paths, a soccer team wearing all red quickly passes through.
The soccer team is wearing all red, and it’s the first time we see red in the film. The color choice helps convey the couple’s growing love for each other. “We used a very controlled palette in the movie,” Ephron later said.
Dave Chapelle improvised most of his performance
Although he takes center stage — and the company has his name — Hanks’ character Joe Fox isn’t the only owner of Fox Books. In fact, if you’re a You’ve Got Mail fan, you’ll know he has a business partner, namely Kevin, whom Dave Chapelle portrays.
Ephron was very generous when it came to Chapelle’s script: she let him say whatever he wanted for his time on screen. Basically, everything that Kevin says was Chapelle’s improvization! They let him run wild with his dialog, and it worked out for the best.
Ephron set the film on the Upper West Side for an interesting reason
Have you ever noticed that although You’ve Got Mail is set in New York, most of the scenes feel much smaller and cozier than the hustle and bustle of the big city? According to director, producer and co-writer Shuler Donner, Ephron did this intentionally, and location was key. Ephron wanted the “small-town” feel, so she chose the Upper West Side for just this reason.
In the 2004 book Movie Moguls Speak, Donner elaborated, “To establish this, Nora showed scenes at the beginning of the film of bread being dropped off outside these closed little stores to make the audience feel like they were in a village, even though they were in a metropolis like New York.”
Ephron took inspiration from Pride & Prejudice
Ephron didn’t just draw inspiration from one place for her You’ve Got Mail masterpiece. In fact, there are nods to her driving forces all over the place. For example, have you ever heard of a little story called Pride and Prejudice?
Ephron also used Jane Austen’s classic novel as a springboard for ideas, as you can probably tell if you scrutinize the main characters close enough! Main characters Joe and Kathleen even discuss their counterparts at one point.
They turned an antique store into Ryan’s bookstore
Don’t be too surprised by how much The Shop Around the Corner looks like a real store: it was! It wasn’t a bookstore, though. It was originally Maya Shaper’s Cheese and Antique Shop when the You’ve Got Mail crew found it.
The store delighted Ephron so much that she had to use it; she sent the owner on a three-week vacation while her crew turned the shop into a bookstore. By the time Shaper came back, they’d returned her antique store to its original layout.
The bookstore “The Shop Around The Corner” is an allusion to a film of the same name
Ephron got her inspiration from many sources, but one of the leading influences was an old Hungarian play from 1936. Have you ever heard of Miklós László’s Parfumerie? Even if you haven’t, you probably already know the story, because Hollywood’s referenced it a lot.
Ernst Lubitsch created a romantic comedy based on Parfumerie called The Shop Around the Corner in 1940: that’s what Kathleen Kelly’s store is named after. Judy Garland also starred in a musical interpretation of the play in 1949 called In the Good Old Summertime, just FYI.
Ephron cleverly illustrates the passage of time
It can sometimes be hard to tell how long a film is set over without it being explicitly stated, but You’ve Got Mail had a cunning — if subtle — timing device. On the DVD commentary Ephron explains, “The extra who is playing the florist [in the beginning of the film] is pregnant.”
“We put a little pad in her tummy,” Ephron continued, “And one of the things you will see later in the movie is when Meg is buying flowers at that florist, there’s a little sign in the window that says, ‘It’s a girl.’”
Hanks’ improv with the goldfish
Joe is an eloquent and witty guy. Remember the part where he’s carrying balloons and a goldfish and traps the balloons in the door? His famous response is, “Good thing it wasn’t the fish.” Well, it turns out that was all Hanks.
It seems that improvisation was encouraged on set, and Hanks is no exception. He made up the line on the spot, and it tickled Ephron so much, she kept it. By the same token, the bookstore conversation about cybersex and online dating is also heavily improvised.
Ephron just loved the word “garnish”
Did you ever have a word in your head you just wanted to get out? Something that you try to slip into conversation whenever the chance arises? If so you might be director material, because it led Ephron to one line in particular.
Ephron explained on the DVD commentary that when Ryan is talking about caviar, there were some specific directions. “I said to Meg, ‘I think you should say that caviar is a garnish.’ I’ve always tried to get the word garnish into a movie. Because I think it's just a funny word.”
Barnes and Noble was resistant
When Ephron sought a location for Fox & Sons Books, her first choice was Barnes and Noble, which was embroiled in a retail battle with Amazon. However, despite the publicity it would have given the company, its management refused and Ephron looked elsewhere.
Ironically, the battle between Barnes and Noble and Amazon was reminiscent of The Shop Around The Corner and Fox Books’ clash in some ways. Still, Ephron chose a closed store that had previously been a Barney’s instead and stocked it with an estimated 25,000 books!
Ephron considers You’ve Got Mail a sequel to Sleepless in Seattle
If You’ve Got Mail reminds you of Sleepless in Seattle, there’s a reason for that. According to Ephron’s sister Delia, You’ve Got Mail is an unofficial sequel to Sleepless in Seattle. She told Vanity Fair in 2015, “In our heads it was the sequel, even though it isn’t strictly speaking ‘the sequel.’ It was them back together, and they are magic together.”
Delia continued, “Even though it isn’t the same characters or anything in our heads, it was always going to be for Meg and Tom... So some of that has to do with how rare it is when romantic comedies just have the kind of chemistry they had.”