The iconic film “When Harry Met Sally” is soon leaving the Prime Video platform. The opportunity to remember one of the most cult scenes in romantic comedy.
In the romantic comedy world, Rob Reiner’s classic When Harry Met Sally is at the top of the pyramid. There is, first of all, its legendary duo, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal – the film made the former a world star and an icon of the genre -, its unconventional love story and an unforgettable simulated orgasm scene .
The sequence is daring because if female pleasure has for a very long time been a taboo subject in cinema, here it is the core of a comic scene. The two characters are seated at a restaurant table when Harry assures Sally that none of his conquests have faked orgasms during sex with him.
Sally retorts that he can’t know if they were convincing. To support her reasoning, she launches into a very noisy simulation in the middle of the establishment, in front of everyone. After this demonstration, one of the customers stops the server to ask: “I’m going to take the same thing as her.” This woman is played by the director’s mother, Estelle Reiner.
Rediscover the scene:
More than 30 years later, the sequence has remained in everyone’s memory and has even been parodied for a long time. Thirty takes of this scene were shot before finding the right orgasm. Rob Reiner, the director, says that to make Meg Ryan scream louder, he himself faked an orgasm in front of everyone. “You realize, I had an orgasm in front of my mother“, he added during a question-and-answer session for the film’s anniversary.
Today, the New York restaurant where the scene was filmed, Katz’s Deli, is one of the most visited sites for tourists. Just a few days ago, actor Billy Crystal returned to the scene to talk about the film again in front of the cameras of Good Morning America.
When Harry Met Sally leaves the Prime Video platform on December 31.