Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Lucky Guy! Ageless Meg Ryan, 51, turns out to support former co-star Tom Hanks at opening night of his new Broadway play

Lucky Guy! Ageless Meg Ryan, 51, turns out to support former co-star Tom Hanks at opening night of his new Broadway play

By Daily Mail Reporter

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It was the biggest hit of 1993, and has enchanted subsequent generations.

Now, twenty years after we all misted up at the delightful sight of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan falling in love across the country, the pair have been reunited.

What's more, they've added the film's director - Nora Ephron - into the mix.

Stunning: Meg Ryan looked incredible at the premiere of Nora Ephron's new play Lucky Guy, her Sleepless in Seattle co-star Tom Hanks is the star of the show

Stunning: Meg Ryan looked incredible at the premiere of Nora Ephron's new play Lucky Guy, her Sleepless in Seattle co-star Tom Hanks is the star of the show

Big star: Meg was happy to show her support for the woman who was also behind When Harry Met Sally

Big star: Meg was happy to show her support for the woman who was also behind When Harry Met Sally

Ephron, who died last June, is having a posthumous release with Lucky Guy on Broadway, and has cast a certain Mr Hanks, 56, as the lead.

Meg, 51, was out in force to lend her support to Hanks on Monday night at the show's opening night in New York.

The actress belied her 51 years and looked smart and stylish in a black trouser suit for the occasion.

Glowing: Meg,51, looked stunning in a simple black suit

Twenty years ago: Tom and Meg starred together in the legendary Sleepless in Seattle

Twenty years ago: Tom and Meg starred together in the legendary Sleepless in Seattle

Proud moment: Tom was later supported by his wife Rita Wilson at the after-party for the play

Proud moment: Tom was later supported by his wife Rita Wilson at the after-party for the play

He plays tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, but wasn't too keen on taking the role at first when the esteemed director asked him to six years ago.

'I said, "Well, that guy's sure a jerk!" I used another word besides jerk," he told NPR.

"And she laughed and she said, "Well, he kinda was. But he was kinda great, too."'

Reporting for duty: Tom Hanks is starring in his good friend's last piece of work

Reporting for duty: Tom Hanks is starring in his good friend's last piece of work

Moving: Tom got to pay homage to his friend Nora at the end of the last play she penned

Moving: Tom got to pay homage to his friend Nora at the end of the last play she penned

Dramatic: Mike McAlary plays a tabloid columnist in this 'love poem' to the newspapers

Dramatic: Mike McAlary plays a tabloid columnist in this 'love poem' to the newspapers

Ephron moved to New York and landed a job as a reporter at the New York Post, so the subject matter was close to her heart.

Hanks said she never stopped being a reporter.

'I think Nora rode her life as a journalist, literally, as far as [she] possibly could,' he said.

'And then, when it came time, she took those same journalistic sensibilities and turned to books, and the same journalistic sensibilities are in her films.

Drawing on her past: Ephron was a reporter in her youth and drew on that spirit for her last play

Drawing on her past: Ephron was a reporter in her youth and drew on that spirit for her last play

Old school news boys: Peter Gerety stars as editor John Cotter in the play with Hanks

Old school news boys: Peter Gerety stars as editor John Cotter in the play with Hanks

Emotional: Tom seemed welled up as he celebrated the end of the play with director George C. Wolfe

Honoured: Ephron died last June and this hotly awaited play is the last tribute to her

Honoured: Ephron died last June and this hotly awaited play is the last tribute to her

'Everything she's ever done, everything I've ever done with her, has really been sort of about reporting on modern times.'

Lucky Guy, which opened on Monday, will run for a limited run at New York's Broadhurst Theatre.

According to NPR: 'The play is set in the tabloid newsrooms, streets and bars of New York during the '80s and '90s, when the city was facing a crack epidemic and pockets of police corruption. But more than anything else, said director George Wolfe.

Chip off the old block: Tom's son Colin attended with his wife Samantha, sister Samantha and his step-mother Rita Wilson

Chip off the old block: Tom's son Colin attended with his wife Samantha, mother Samantha and his step-mother Rita Wilson 

Glamorous attendees: Chrissy Teigen, Emily Bergl and Rosie Perez

The old guard: Barbara Walters and mayor Bloomberg also attended

'It's a play about the death of newspaper culture, and the characters who filled that world, and the characters who replaced them and a sensibility that replaced them,' Wolfe said.

'And it's just incredible. I think, at the end of the thing, it's a love poem to journalism.'

Short and shorter: Comedy favourite Martin hammed it up with Jungle Fever director Spike Lee

Short and shorter: Comedy favourite Martin hammed it up with Jungle Fever director Spike Lee

Bassett's allsorts: Angela and Emmy Rossum were another unlikely duo to attend the star-studded event

Man of the people: Tom greeted his fans outside the theatre despite the cold temperatures

Snap attack: Tom happily posed for pictures with the masses

Snap attack: Tom happily posed for pictures with the masses

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