If you ask Meg Ryan, being “American’s Sweetheart” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. During Gwyneth Paltrow’s 2017 Goop Health Summit, Ryan spoke with Paltrow about a plethora of topics. Of course, the subject of acting came up, during which Paltrow picked Ryan’s brain about her past label.
While Ryan admitted that she “had a lot of fun,” she also revealed that acting wasn’t in her plans, and that she didn’t really understand the title. “When you get labeled anything like ‘America’s Sweetheart,’ I didn’t even know what that meant,” Ryan explained (via E! News). “Nora Ephron’s parents wrote scripts in old Hollywood and there was such a thing as America’s Sweetheart in the ’40s and she decided to say that about me one day and I remember thinking, ‘Is that good?'” Ryan also touched on how the title can limit an actor’s range. “It doesn’t necessarily imply that you’re smart or sexual or complicated or anything, it’s a label. And what can a label do but guess at you?” she added.
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Fortunately, the label hasn’t made Ryan shy away from the genre that made her famous. In 2019, Ryan told The New York Times that she was writing (and possibly directing) her own version of a rom-com, although she kept the details a secret. “You feel like you’re jinxing it if you’re talking about it,” shared Ryan. “Hopefully it’s for me to direct.”
