Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were the on-screen couple audiences loved to watch in the ‘90s. Their first movie together was 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano followed by one of the best romantic comedies of all time, Sleepless in Seattle, three years later. However, did you know that the Nora Ephron classic could have been their third team-up instead of their second? This is because Hanks’ wife, Rita Wilson, revealed that the You’ve Got Mail duo was about to star together in another iconic rom-com before working on Sleepless in Seattle.
While Sleepless in Seattle was the movie that made our hearts sing for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, we could have fallen for them much earlier if the Big star would have been her leading man in When Harry Met Sally... On the podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, revealed why her husband passed up the chance to work with his Joe Versus the Volcano co-star in the Rob Reiner film, saying:
