Meg Ryan was considered one of the biggest and most bankable stars in Hollywood during the 1990s and early 00s, thanks to her many iconic performances, particularly in romantic comedies. However, the actress has since been a lot more sparse with her roles after making waves as a director and producer.
Fortunately, in 2022, Meg announced that she would be making her grand return to the silver screen in the movie What Happens Later – and now the trailer has officially landed...
The official synopsis for the film reads: "Two ex-lovers, Bill (David Duchovny) and Willa (Meg Ryan) get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted."
Set to land in cinemas on October 13, Meg has already teased what's to come. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, she said: "It has a relationship to movies from the '40s, like Bringing Up Baby, in terms of the banter and the rhythm of things and a lot of that era of filmmaking. Nora Ephron used to say about rom-coms that they were really a secretly incredible delivery system to comment on the times, and we do that in this movie."
Praising her co-star David Duchovny, Meg added: "It's just been really fun to see David embrace this guy who I don't think is anything really like David. Whereas the Willa thing I can really relate to. To see him dive into every single scene in the fullest way, he's funny, and he's smart, and he's dear, and irresistible."
Back in November last year, Meg first confirmed that What Happens Later was in development. Revealing the film's poster on her social media, the tagline read: "They missed their connection."
What Happens Later is the second film that Meg has directed, following 2015's Ithaca, her last feature film project, excluding an archival footage cameo in Top Gun: Maverick.
The actress made her film debut in 1981 in Rich and Famous while appearing on TV in As The World Turns as a main cast member for two years. She continued acting in several other films of varying genres while building her portfolio.
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She achieved her breakthrough with 1989's When Harry Met Sally…, eventually becoming the queen of rom-coms with other standout performances in Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and French Kiss, among others.
© GettyShe continued consistently appearing in projects till the early 00s, eventually reducing her roles to limited independent projects, with What Happens Later being her first big screen project in almost eight years.
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