“The idea of a movie star is 100 percent projection.
So it’s really not personal, frankly,” said Ryan.
“And I am so lucky because I can feel a lot of affection in the world.
People tell me that when they were recovering from an illness or surgery, they watch those movies.”
From her humble beginnings to her incredible comeback, here is the stunning transformation of Meg Ryan.
Unlike many soon-to-be stars, Meg Ryan didn’t display an obvious love for performance.
“No, I never had that,” Ryan answered.
“I don’t feel like, naturally, I’m a performer.
I knew I was being given opportunities and that there was certain music I could play as an actor.
Certain things I could do.
And I liked acting.
I thought it was fun.
But acting was a situation I was navigating.”
Ryan enrolled as a new student in Bethel High and immediately became the object of her classmate’s affection.
According to her longtime friend Tracy Parsons in a 1993 interview withPeople, Ryan was popular in school.
“There was something about her that stood out from the day she walked in, a charisma thing.
Everyone wanted to be her friend,” Parsons reminisced.
However, Ryan had a lot more going on at home than her peers realized.
“She was very unhappy.
… Meg got the idea that her mother abandoned her.”
Eventually, this part-time gig of hers turned into a full-time career.
However, it didn’t take long for Ryan to build momentum and appear in her first star-studded movie.
“I feel like there’s so much more work to do.
I feel like I have just so much more work to do,” she said.
“This time I get to be funny.
Later, they worked together again on the 2015 war drama, “Ithaca.”
He listens; he roots for other people.
… [Hanks] doesn’t like there to be drama.
I feel the same way.
Between 1986 and 1987, she dated her “Top Gun” co-star Anthony Edwards.
The following year, Ryan and Quaid worked together again on “D.O.A.”
and, finally, he made the first move by putting his arm around her at a bar.
“It was like a thunderbolt.
Both of us felt, ‘This is it.
We’re going to be together.'”
Quaid toldEntertainment Weeklyin 2001.
“I wasn’t taking any pointers or anything.
“When we met, you know, I was the big deal.
I have to admit it, I actually did feel like I disappeared,” the actor recalled.
However, Quaid maintained that his marriage to Ryan was the “most successful relationship of my life.”
“Divorce is hard.
All those things were so personal.
They weren’t for mass consumption.
“I’ll never do that again.
You have this split attention.
I don’t know how people do it,” she said.
There are very specific stages where different things are required of you.
Meg Ryan had an eight-year hiatus
Ryan was interested in so much more than a film career.
“What I had in the ’90s was a ride,” Ryan told Glamour.
“I love that [the characters] don’t have a meet-cute.
