With their romantic pairings in 'Joe Vs. The Volcano,'
'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'You've Got Mail,' TOM
HANKS and MEG RYAN are quickly becoming a modern day
Tracy and Hepburn. Will these two strike a romantic
chord for the third time? They certainly have the
chemistry as revealed in this interview duet.
Entertainment Tonight Online: So, the two of you have
done two very successful romantic comedies together,
were you looking forward to doing something together
again?
Tom Hanks: We don't even think that it's possible--
Meg Ryan: Until it happens. That's so true. It just
happens and it's sort of luck, really. Don't you
think?
Tom: Absolutely.
Meg: With amazing timing.
Tom: It was. From the moment before I had read
'You've Got Mail,' to the time when we were making it
together was maybe 48 hours.
Meg: That was all. The pre-production was
instantaneous.
Tom: Bang. Zoom. Like that. NORA [EPHRON] sent it
along.
Meg: We shot it in her neighborhood.
Tom: The next movie will be in her living room. It was
like bang. So simple. We have a thing that goes
together really well and we don't test it and we don't
examine it too much. And we don't do it unless we both
feel like, "Hey, this is kind of good."
ETOL: Meg, what do you like most about working with
Tom?
Meg: It just doesn't feel like work. That's my
favorite thing. It's really easy and Tom can talk
about anything and it's incredibly fun. It is.
Tom: That's nice of you.
Meg: And... I always leave this out because it goes
without saying, but he's an incredible actor.
Tom: Very nice.
Meg: He just elevates everybody's game.
ETOL: Now, Tom what are you going to say about Meg?
Tom: Because I can't say the same thing that she just
said, I gotta come up with something different.
Working with Meg, first off, is never about power.
It's never about sandbagging the other person. It's
never about, "I'm going to score in this scene. I
don't care what you do." It's like playing tennis with
someone who is just that much better than you.
Therefore, you have to do everything absolutely
perfect, otherwise you're going to lose. Sometimes I
win. Sometimes I lose, but whatever happens
afterwards, we have a delightful lunch because all we
do is laugh.
ETOL: What do you think this film says about love in
the nineties?
Tom: I'll bet it's as tenuous as it is anywhere else.
Meg: I think it just says that love is the same now as
it ever was and ever will be. It's this crazy,
illogical, fantastic, stupid thing.
Tom: It's unpredictable. You cannot predict who the
person is going to be or even where they are going to
come from.
Meg: It will be the time when you are out of control.
(laughs)
Tom: It might sneak up on you and thunk you on the
head.
ETOL: Did either of you do much online surfing to find
out what the whole online culture is about?
Tom: You know, I went in one chat room once and there
was nobody in it.
Meg: You were lucky.
Tom: It was this room about people who liked '2001: A
Space Odyssey' and I was in there all by myself. Just
with the glimpse you can see of the bigger chat rooms,
it's kind of scary. It's like this big massive chaotic
swarm -- I try to stay out of a mob as best I can
anyway.
Meg: Actually, you're alone in your room, but if
you're there, you feel like it's this crowded place.
You actually feel crowded.
Tom: I love composing the perfect three e-mails a day
off to somebody. That's great. I actually feel
fulfilled when it's all over.
Meg: I love writing. You're right, composing it and
reading it back to yourself and saying, "You know
what, I am printing that baby out." I want that hard
copy!
ETOL: Have you heard about anyone's online romance or
anyone's horror stories about the Internet?
Tom: Some that make the papers. Some insane thing that
happened because of two people on the Internet. I
think you could probably not scrape very hard now --
years after the fact -- and find couples who met
online and then met in person. Then all the online
stuff was forgotten and they got on with their lives
and turned out to be the ones for each other.
Meg: A few people have come in today and have actually
started relationships on them or they know people. I
don't know anybody personally that has started their
relationship that way, but it's happening.
ETOL: I know that on the Star Trek Web site, they had
an online wedding with a minister in the chat room.
Meg: On the "Star Trek" Web site? We missed that, Tom!
Tom: Were they all dressed as "Seven of Nine" or
something like that? Mister Sulu marries--
Meg: ...Uhura.
Tom: Yeoman Rand. (laughs)
ETOL: Perfect.
Tom: It was perfect.
Meg: Wow, what a great interview.
-- November 16, 1998
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