Meg Ryan’s ageless appearance almost a decade after quitting Hollywood

Meg Ryan is set to make a big Hollywood comeback as the trailer for her new romcom has been released online. And the 61-year-old actress has wowed fans with her ageless looks eight years after her last on-screen appearance. Meg is known for her performances in romantic comedies such as When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seatle and You’ve Got Mail. In What Happens Later, which she also co-wrote and directed, Meg plays the lead character Willa, who is snowed in at a regional airport with her ex-lover Bill, played by David Duchovny, whom she hasn’t seen for years. The couple then find themselves delayed at the airport overnight, where they are once again drawn to each other as they were decades before. Meg with her When Harry Met Sally co-star Billy Crystal (Image: Getty) The trailer, which was released on X, formerly known as Twitter, by Bleecker Street Films, caused a reaction amongst fans who were happy to see the romcom legend back. One fan posted: ‘What a transformation! Look at the very last shot of Meg in this trailer. It’s like she lost 20 years. Always beautiful.’ Whilst another excitedly posted: ‘NEW MEG RYAN ROMCOM?????? Oh we are SO back’. A third said: ‘I’m sorry, Scorsese. Meg Ryan’s comeback will be the event of October for me. This looks lovely and her magnetic presence is still there.’ And a fourth X’er said: ‘Oh, well, here for the potential Megaissance. Long overdue.’ Meg Ryan in the trailer for What Happens Later (Image: Bleecker Street Films) This will be Meg’s first film in eight years (Image: Getty) In the poster for the film, Meg looked as youthful as ever as she appeared in a black coat, white dress and black chunky military boots. Her hairstyle also hasn’t changed much as she wore her blonde tresses down in soft waves as he long locks framed her face. Her co-star David can be seen wearing a black suit and tie, which he paired with quirky socks. Although Meg consistently worked for more than a decade, she slowly stepped away from accepting roles in the mid 2000s and for a while, stopped acting altogether. In a rare interview with the New York Times Magazine in 2019 Meg explained her absence in Hollywood was down to being tired. She said: ‘I felt in a crazy way that, as an actor, I was burning through life experiences. Somehow I was a helicopter pilot or a journalist or an alcoholic.’ “I didn’t feel like I knew enough anymore about myself or the world to reflect it as an actor. I felt isolated,” she continued, saying she felt isolated both in fame and in Hollywood .