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  • Yeah, yeah, I'm Lulu and that's me.

  • I'm a Canadian living in New York City, working at glamour.

  • I love movies.

  • And when Harry Met Sally is one of my all time favorites, I sort of idolized Sally Albright.

  • She's confident you are a human affront to all women, and I am a woman.

  • She knows herself really well, and I don't want the ice cream on top one on the side.

  • And I like strawberries.

  • That a vanilla if you have it.

  • And she's not afraid to make a point.

  • Yes, yes, I'll have what she's having.

  • These are all qualities I wish I had more of.

  • So to regain some confidence of my own, I'm gonna replicate the famous deli scene from the movie to see what it's like to be Sally Albright.

  • In her most confident moments, I really wanted to film this where the actual movie scene took place at Katz's Deli.

  • But before doing anything, I called up Conde Nast's lawyer to find out the legal implications of replicating the scene.

  • I'm trying Thio experience the rial feelings that the fictional character Sally felt.

  • My advice would be that you make it at least somewhat different from the original.

  • Are you actually planning on doing that?

  • You could change things up a little bit.

  • Based on my conversation with Steve the lawyer, it seemed like it was safer not to film at Katz's.

  • So it was time to go with Plan B or Plan C or Plan B or Plan A or plan at 40.

  • All right, we're gonna call some restaurants and see if we can find a place that will let us recreate the scene.

  • No one is gonna let us do this, but it's worth a try to speak to a manager e managers at like a conference before 3 p.m. Every day.

  • Manager exclusively come in after 3 p.m. Which is the biggest takeaway from today.

  • Hi there.

  • I'm calling from Glamour magazine, and we're looking to shoot a short video in a restaurant where their real customers eating.

  • We're recreating the famous deli scene from when Harry met Sally.

  • That's a cat thing.

  • I don't want to be associated with them.

  • That's totally fair.

  • And also, you know, it's a risk to have someone having a long lad orgasm in a restaurant.

  • I mean, that's cool.

  • Well, thank you very much.

  • You gotta have a good day.

  • We're looking to shoot the loud orgasm scene from when Harry met Sally in a restaurant.

  • Really?

  • Yeah, way.

  • Amazing.

  • That's great.

  • Does that sound like something that we could do?

  • Great.

  • We would really love to do that.

  • Kind of great.

  • Um, let me call you back.

  • Okay?

  • I cannot believe how many places said yes to this.

  • I decided to go with the place called Eisenberg's because they seemed the most excited about this project.

  • And just like that, my location was locked in to help get me into character.

  • I rewatched the scene with this experiment in mind comes over so thought of faking an orgasm in front of strangers was pretty intimidating.

  • So to get more comfortable, I decided I should practice doing it in public.

  • Yes, Yes.

  • Doing this on my own wasn't getting me anywhere.

  • So I met with New York City acting coach Lindsay Davis to get some guidance about committing to character.

  • I feel like I can feel how my arms were like, glued to my body, right?

  • Yeah, because you're nervous will go right through and talk about it after Oh, yes, Oh, try again.

  • Take one breath in O.

  • Uh uh Oh, yes, that's right.

  • Well, dio like a Meisner technique is repetition.

  • Okay, so I make a sound.

  • You make a sound.

  • I say a word.

  • You say a word.

  • Oh, oh, Uh 00 oh!

  • Get my hands.

  • I ended up practicing with Lindsay a few more times, and she really helped me start to get more comfortable.

  • These sessions with Lindsay have made me realize just how much confidence I've lost over the past year.

  • I'm not nearly as sure of myself as I used to be.

  • So I feel like this entire experiment is a really good step in the direction of rebuilding or rediscovering a more confident version of myself in an attempt to capture the finer details of the orgasm.

  • I tried to script it out.

  • Oh, yes, and crazy.

  • But a script wasn't enough to fully capture the orgasm, so I decided to take things one step further.

  • All right.

  • I've transcribed Meg Ryan's orgasm into sheet music.

  • This is my best friend, Henry.

  • He's a musical genius, and he's agreed to help me analyze the finer details of Sally's orgasm.

  • It was a challenge because, you know, she's not singing actual notes and to transcribe literally the pitches she was doing.

  • You'd need, like, quarter tones, which Western music nomenclature doesn't really have.

  • Her first sound she makes is who is the notes I assigned to?

  • How did you assign those notes?

  • When I hear the pitch is, if you like, freeze her voice.

  • That's the pitch she's on.

  • Henry really got me thinking about the nuances of Sally.

  • Speak orgasm.

  • Oh, yeah, right there.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Right there.

  • Now try to see it without singing.

  • Uh, this big jump here.

  • Okay?

  • Okay.

  • Yeah, I know it's hard.

  • Yes, but a look.

  • A little dog, like honestly?

  • Yes, yes, yes, that's it.

  • That's exactly a 123456 Yes!

  • Yes, Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

  • 00!

  • Oh!

  • Oh, yes, yes!

  • Yes!

  • Oh, yeah, yeah, yes, yes!

  • The higher pitch.

  • Yes, yes, yes.

  • I don't think this was entirely necessary for you to do.

  • After my session with Henry, I was starting to feel better about mastering the orgasm.

  • But there was one important piece of the puzzle still missing.

  • I put up a casting call for a Harry reenactor and a few guys responded.

  • Harry has completely outdated views on women.

  • Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

  • And he has an infuriating outlook.

  • What are you saying that they fake or it's possible for my Harry?

  • I didn't want someone who could just memorize lines.

  • I wanted someone who could fully embody the character.

  • Can you convince me that men and women can't be friends?

  • We were kind of put together on Earth for her to make babies.

  • That's biologically impossible.

  • We're two different species.

  • There are always gonna have a sexual component between the two.

  • I have male friends who were straight, and I have platonic friendships with that.

  • And you don't wanna have sex with them?

  • No.

  • They wanna have sex with you, though.

  • So they're thinking about sex.

  • Absolutely.

  • With you all the time, all the time, all the time.

  • Early on, Maybe you think you could be friends, and then later it doesn't.

  • It doesn't really work out that way.

  • It is possible it was hard.

  • Well, I think it's Harry.

  • Uh, you know, it's like a little bit of a different error.

  • I think that was a pretty dominant mindset of, like, mad.

  • Do you think a woman has ever faked an orgasm with, You know, they seem they seem fine.

  • No, I, uh they usually tell me when they don't.

  • If they have, I would wish they were.

  • Speak up.

  • Do you feel like you've experienced someone faking an orgasm with, You know, how do you know?

  • Like, you know, when somebody's lying to you.

  • You know, there's, like, body language.

  • Every woman fakes an orgasm.

  • That was something wrong with me.

  • That might be true in certain cases, Not me.

  • What makes you so sure that no one has faked an orgasm?

  • You know what makes you so sure the sun is gonna rise tomorrow?

  • It's just stuff, you know, in your body.

  • The guy who was the harshest made me realize that Harry is a character, has some softness and is nuanced.

  • Which is what made me like the last guy so much.

  • Do you think a woman has ever faked an orgasm with you?

  • Absolutely know.

  • How do you know?

  • Trust me, I just have a keen instinct for these.

  • All women have faked an orgasm, and not all women have had sex with me or the Select Special Group of Women.

  • In fact, it had sex with me and trust me, they've all enjoyed it.

  • I was there.

  • Remember, he was able to help my frustration build up, which I think will help me get to where I need to be.

  • In the moment.

  • I think we found our Harry.

  • With all of these pieces falling into place, it was finally time to channel Sally's looks, demographics butter and actually found it at the costume slash vintage store that I went to the first time I ever visited New York with my mom.

  • When I was 11 and I called her earlier today, she recommended I get out and I was no.

  • And then I ended up taking a pilgrimage there, and I'm really happy.

  • I've found the perfect weather with the big day coming up.

  • I spent the night before practicing my lines and getting sect.

  • Tomorrow's a big day.

  • I'm feeling very nervous, very excited, totally ready and, you know, let's do it.

  • While the glamour crew was setting up hidden cameras in the deli, I met up with my hair stylist Jay to complete my Sally look All right.

  • Well, I'm done.

  • I even had downtime to contemplate the scene and really am myself up.

  • Well, I just have one thing that said I'll have what she's having with everything in place.

  • It was time to head to the deli and actually do this.

  • I'm a little more nervous than I would have thought.

  • I have been so confident in the past couple of days leading up to this.

  • Now that it's the moment, I'm totally regressing in tow.

  • Just like extreme nerves.

  • I've like, shut down.

  • I can't talk to anyone.

  • I have to, like, channel that nervousness into some excitement.

  • You ready?

  • Yeah.

  • Let's D'oh!

  • D'oh!

  • D'oh!

  • D'oh!

  • Ready?

  • I'm nervous.

  • Let's do it.

  • Most women at one time or another have faked it.

  • They haven't faked it with me.

  • How do you know?

  • Because I know.

  • That's right.

  • I forgot.

  • You're a man.

  • What's that supposed?

  • Nothing.

  • It's just that all men are sure it's never happened to them.

  • And most women at one time or another have done it.

  • So you do the math.

  • You don't think that I could tell the difference?

  • No.

  • Get out of here.

  • Oh!

  • Oh!

  • Are you okay?

  • Oh, God!

  • Uh oh.

  • Oh, God!

  • Oh, God!

  • Yeah!

  • Yes!

  • Right way.

  • Ay yai Yai Yai Yai!

  • That felt amazing.

  • I was the most nervous I've ever been in my life.

  • I've never had my heart beat faster than in the moment being Sally felt liberating and empowering.

  • Sally is a really amazing architect for young women to look up Thio, a confident, unapologetic woman who can, you know, put a guy in his place.

  • I don't think I related to her before I admired her.

  • And now I feel like I relate to her.

  • I feel like I just conquered some fears that I developed over the last year.

  • I discovered some confidence that I thought I'd lost.

  • I'm really proud of myself.

  • And I just want to keep doing stuff like this, not orgasms.

Yeah, yeah, I'm Lulu and that's me.

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