Billy Crystal makes surprising revelation about one of his favorite scenes when harry met sally He paid an emotional tribute to his late friend Rob Reiner.
while talking to him Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Crystal reflected on their decades-long friendship.
Crystal revealed that the film’s iconic phone call scene was directly inspired by her conversation with Renner, who died in December 2025.
The actor recalled how the two would often stay on the phone for hours, even watching movies casablanca Together from different places.
Crystal said, “We could talk about everything. He was my kids’ uncle.”
Adding, “When something good happens, or ‘Isn’t that crazy?’ I want to pick up the phone and call and say, ‘Did you see?’ Because that’s what we’ll do.”
I’m talking about the scene When Harry met Sally, Crystal said, “In Harry and Sally, there are so many moments when Meg and I are really Rob and I.”
Crystal recalled, “He was going through a difficult divorce from Penny Marshall at the time, and we were on the phone constantly. And there were moments when we were watching a movie together, like Casablanca, and we would do that and go back and forth.”
“We were looking at, remember, arena football? We were going back and forth, and we said, ‘What about arena sailing? Maybe there’s arena boats.'”
Additionally, Billy Crystal called Rob Reiner’s death “a deep loss to humanity, I’ll just say that, because he was the most humane person I’ve ever met.”
