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Ryan tried to defend her performance, telling critics it was not the first time she appeared nude. The Entertainment Weekly report said Ruffalo had “performance anxiety”, quoting him saying he was “really scared” and feared being compared to her previous partner Russell Crowe.
IN THE CUT MOVIE
“So I don’t know what the typical Meg Ryan movie is.”īut the film was poorly received by critics and reviews focused heavily on the nudity. “I’ve done 30 movies and I’ve done seven romantic comedies,” she told reporters. Entertainment Weekly’s headline was: “Meg Ryan bares all, makes leading man nervous”.Īt the film’s premiere, reporters asked whether she was uncomfortable with the “skin” scenes and her departure from her role as “America’s sweetheart”. The critical reaction to the film was negative and focused on Ryan’s performance and nudity. Her co-star, Ruffalo, who played a kinky detective and her lover, told the press that during filming the director shouted at him to play a confident lover, saying: “You’re not in school anymore!” She said she faced other challenges, like playing a character who didn’t talk much. Ryan was 41 at the time of the film’s release and the nudity to her was “no big deal”. Ryan starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in In The Cut in 2003 after more than a decade of stellar hits including You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless In Seattle and When Harry Met Sally. She said the more broad experience of being in the public eye made her feel “isolated” and like an “incomplete person”. Related: What it’s like to have a famous big sisterīut despite being happy with her life out of the spotlight, Ryan said she was “shocked” at the vicious reaction she endured for being “naked”. Related: Inside the dark history of world’s biggest boy band Related: The dark side of growing up a Disney princess She said shocking audiences, who were used to her good-girl archetype, with her In The Cut character marked the end of her career as an actress. Quirky and beautiful and beguilingly funny, Ryan was the undisputed romantic comedy queen for more than 10 years from the late ’80s through to the beginning of the 2000s.īut Ryan seemed to disappear from movie screens in an instant and in a recent interview with New York Times Magazine, the former America’s sweetheart said a single role as a schoolteacher in a racy R-rated film was enough to end her career. Meg Ryan was one of the greatest leading ladies of the ’90s.