Meg Ryan, 61, says her children call THAT orgasm scene from her hit Eighties movie When Harry Met Sally a ‘very unique embarrassment’

Meg Ryan returns to the big screen for the first time in eight years in What Happens Later, but the actress will forever be known for her role in 1989’s When Harry Met Sally.

In the romantic comedy starring Billy Crystal, 75, starring as Harry, Meg’s character Sally famously and loudly fakes an orgasm while sitting in a restaurant just before enjoying a turkey sandwich.

In a conversation with Carol Burnett, 90, for Interview magazineMeg, 61, revealed that her children, Jack Quaid, 31, and Daisy Ryan, 19, have experienced some red faces as a result of the disgrace.

“It’s funny,” she told the comedy legend, “my son just called me this morning and he’s in New York staying in a hotel across the street from Katz’s Deli.

“My daughter was here and everyone was on speakerphone, and they were like, ‘Mom, this is a very unique disgrace,'” she added.

Arrow: Meg said her son told her that Katz’s Deli, where the scene was shot, has an arrow pointing to the cubicle where the scene with Billy Crystal was shot

“He said, ‘You know you can go into that deli and there’s an arrow pointing to the table where you shot that scene,'” she added.

Meg revealed that she was saying “Yeah! Yes! Yes!’ a lot while shooting that scene.

“We’ve probably done that over and over again,” Ryan said.

Meg has returned to the rom-com genre that made her a star in her latest project, in which she not only starred, but also directed and co-wrote the script.

“Really, the easiest part was acting in it,” she said.

About her acting and directing, the second director, alongside co-star David Duchovny, who cut her teeth in Ithaca in 2015, said she focused on preparation.

“A lot of it happened in two shots. I’m proud of that. I arranged everything in advance so that once we got there, only David and I tried to tell the truth.’

Much of the film was shot at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, where the set was included in their exhibit.

Shame: Speaking to Carol Burnett for Interview Magazine, Meg revealed that her children, Jack Quaid and Daisy Ryan, find the notoriety from the scene “a very unique embarrassment”

Romcom: Meg returns to the romcom genre in her latest movie, What Happens Later (pictured in Paris in July 2019)

Triple duty: Meg co-wrote, directed and stars in What Happens Later with David Duchovny as two former flames who reconnect when they are snowed in at an airport overnight. The film will premiere on October 13

“They let us use it at night. And during the day, they had the parts of the set that we couldn’t remove as part of an exhibition, like, “This is what a set looks like.” They even made art into art,” she said.

The Elle Women in Hollywood Award winner revealed that she was working on the script for What Happens Later during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“They sent me the script—a first or second draft by the playwright (Steven Dietz)—based on a play called Shooting Star,” the actress explained.

“I had just moved to California at the beginning of the pandemic and it was a big collective hiatus, so that script got me thinking about what was happening in the world, how we were all put under a glass,” she recalled .

“I started working on it and over the course of a year and a half the script evolved and David came in. We got to know each other through these Zoom conversations and some of those conversations also found their way into the script.’

Meg and David star as former flames who run into each other at an airport and reconnect after being snowed in overnight.

What Happens Later is in cinemas from October 13.