Rob Reiner opens up on his When Harry Met Sally climax

Director Rob Reiner's rom-com When Harry Met Sally ends with Harry (Billy Crystal) proposing to Sally (Meg Ryan) on New Year’s Eve. After the protagonists of the 1989 film share a kiss on New Year's Eve, they break the fourth-wall and reveal that they got hitched three months later. However, this was not the climax that the director had in mind for When Harry Met Sally.

Speaking on CNN's show Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, the director said that his two main characters would not get together in the original climax, but he changed it when he fell in love with Michele Singer. Reiner met Singer on the sets of the romantic-comedy film, and if it had not been for him falling in love, Harry and Sally would have parted ways at the end.

About the film's alternate ending, Reiner said, “I’d been single for ten years, and I couldn’t figure out how I was ever going to be with anybody. That gave birth to When Harry Met Sally. I hadn’t met anybody, so it was going to be the two of them seeing each other after years, talking, and then walking away from each other.”

Reiner got married to Singer a little before the film came out in theatres.