Rita Wilson says Tom Hanks turned down a lead role in When Harry Met Sally due to the state of his own love life at the time.
However, he passed on the part – because, according to Rita, his own feelings about divorce at the time were very different from the character’s.
“People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered When Harry Met Sally,” Rita said, adding that Tom “turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married”. “So he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would [feel] anything other than just, like, ‘I’m so happy,’” she continued with a laugh.
Tom and his first wife, Samantha Lewes, divorced in 1987. He and Rita have been married since 1988. Samantha died in 2002.Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson on the red carpet at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on May 23 in Cannes, France.
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