She was also the one who told him not to take the role

The actress wife of this permanent A list mostly movie actor who has multiple Oscar wins/nominations came as close as she probably ever will to admit she started sleeping with her husband when he was married to another woman.

She was also the one who told him not to take a role which would have given him four movies with a co-star and not just three, although everyone always forgets about the third.

Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks

Samantha Lewes
Spouse: Tom Hanks (m. 1978–1987

When Harry Met Sally

Meg Ryan

Rita Wilson Says Tom Hanks Turned Down ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Because He Was Going Through Divorce

When Harry Met Sally could’ve looked very different, according to Rita Wilson.

The actress, 66, revealed on Tuesday’s episode of iHeartPodcasts’ Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi that her husband Tom Hanks almost played Harry Burns, a role that eventually went to Billy Crystal, in the now-iconic 1989 romantic comedy that also starred Meg Ryan as Sally Albright.

“People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered When Harry Met Sally,” said Wilson of Hanks, 66, whom she has been married to for 35 years.

According to Wilson, her husband “turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married.”

“So he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would [feel] anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy,’ ” she added with a laugh – Source