If you’ve been wondering what the hell happened to Meg Ryan - besides excessive face work and habitual adoption of foreign babies - she’s using her Hollywood connections to star in an HBO miniseries based on Carrie Fisher’s The Best Awful.
We know that Smegma and Carrie are friends from the When Harry Met Sally days, and we’re partially glad that Old Meg has found another outlet for her particular late-career brand of laughing-through-tears, “I’m rich but I have problems too,” insular chick-flick shtick.
Fisher’s POV suggests this could be a better vehicle than Ryan’s had in years, so it should be seen as a boon to her sagged career. Yet we can’t help but imagine that she’s looking at the just-released list of Hollywood’s 10 highest-paid actresses and weeping a bit. Just five years ago, Meg too was making $15 million a picture.
Jennifer Aniston: This is your future.
Ryan is best for ‘Awful’ [Hollywood Reporter]
Kidman is Hollywood’s highest-paid actress [Sydney Morning Herald]
