Billy Crystal makes shocking revelation about the iconic ‘When Harry Met Sally’ scene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nBilly Crystal makes surprising revelation about one of his favorite scenes when harry met sally<\/i> He paid an emotional tribute to his late friend Rob Reiner.<\/p>\n
while talking to him Late Show with Stephen Colbert, <\/i> Crystal reflected on their decades-long friendship.<\/p>\n
Crystal revealed that the film’s iconic phone call scene was directly inspired by her conversation with Renner, who died in December 2025.<\/p>\n
The actor recalled how the two would often stay on the phone for hours, even watching movies casablanca <\/i>Together from different places.<\/p>\n
Crystal said, “We could talk about everything. He was my kids’ uncle.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
I’m talking about the scene When Harry met Sally,<\/i> Crystal said, “In Harry and Sally, there are so many moments when Meg and I are really Rob and I.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
“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.'”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n