"I don't know what it was, but as soon as we started work with Ross, it was the movie. Now, 25 years after Tom Hanks met Meg Ryan atop the Empire State Building, we.
"He was an 8-year-old who understood that there's a difference between saying the lines and playing around," Hanks told Carlson. Audiences swooned over the romantic comedy 'Sleepless In Seattle' when it was released in theatres on June 25, 1993.
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Watt, who starred in Unstrung Heroes with Diane Keatona few years later but stopped acting in his teens, told Carlson that he didn't remember much about the experience, except for Rosie O'Donnell being funny and kind and Ephron being "abrasive." It was disappointing that it didn't work out, but, he added, "I was 8."Įnter Ross Malinger, who made his movie debut in 1990's Kindergarten Cop, as Jonah. "The kid wasn't much of an actor," remembered on-site editor Bob Reitano, "but most importantly he couldn't remember his lines." He was "frickin' adorable," casting director Laura Rosenthal recalled to Carlson, as well as Ephron's first choice.īut according to multiple accounts, after just a few days of filming it was clear that Watt-who had never been in a movie-wasn't going to work out. Garber boasts more than 130 acting credits. The part eventually went to 8-year-old Nathan Watt. His Sleepless in Seattle character is a bit more tame Garber plays Sam’s brother-in-law, married to Suzy (Rita Wilson).
The production cast a wide net when it came to finding the right kid to play Sam's matchmaker son Jonah, and the young actors who came up during the search, per Carlson, included Elijah Wood, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Savage and Rider Strong, Jason Schwartzman and Joaquin (still going by Leaf) Phoenix-who, at 17, was quickly crossed off as too old for the part.
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