Meg Ryan says her son Jack Quaid thinks her famous 'When Harry Met Sally' orgasm scene is 'a very unique embarrassment'
- Meg Ryan shared her children's reaction to her famous orgasm scene in "When Harry Met Sally."
- Ryan said her two children think the scene is a "very unique embarrassment."
Meg Ryan said that her children are embarrassed by her famous orgasm scene in "When Harry Met Sally."
In the iconic scene from the 1989 movie, Ryan's character Sally simulates a fake orgasm that gets increasingly loud to prove to Harry (Billy Crystal) that he is unable to tell a fake one from a real one.
Speaking to comedian Carol Burnett for Interview magazine, Ryan said that her two children, Daisy True Ryan and Jack Quaid, think the scene is a "unique embarrassment."
"It's funny, my son just called me this morning and he's in New York staying at a hotel that's right across the street from Katz's Deli," she said, referring to the restaurant where the scene was filmed. "My daughter was here and everybody was on speaker, and they were like, 'Mom, this is a very unique embarrassment.'"
She added: "He said, 'You know you can go into that deli and there's an arrow pointing down to the table where you shot that scene.' I wonder if it's the right one."
Quaid told InStyle in 2019 that he first watched "When Harry Met Sally" while preparing for his own rom-com movie, "Plus One."
"It's one of those things, where if you really think about it, you don't want to see your mom having a fake orgasm in a deli when you're growing up. I avoided it," he said.
Quaid said after seeing that after seeing the film, "I was so unbelievably proud of my mom — I called her sobbing, like, 'I'm so proud of you!' and she like 'Ah, cool!'"
"She was excited I'd seen it, and then I came into rehearsal that day still sobbing and it was this weird moment where I'm like 'Guys, I'm just so proud of my mom,'" he added.
Later that year, Ryan told People that Daisy's first experience of the film was when John Mellencamp, Ryan's fiancé at the time, showed her the movie when she was 14.
"I'm walking around the house doing other stuff," Ryan said. "But I can hear, 'Baby fish mouth.' I hear the orgasm scene, and then there's silence from the room they're watching in. My daughter's 14! And John goes, 'Meeeeeeeeg! I'm not explaining this!'"