Julianna Margulies, who plays Delia Ephron in the new Broadway play Left on Tenth, admits that her first meeting with the playwright herself was not typical.
“It is a bizarre meet-cute,” Margulies said on a recent appearance on the Today Show. “[It was] a typical New York story. And this play is also a love letter to New York,” she added.
“I was walking my dog down 5th Ave in Greenwich Village on 10th Street and her dog came and they were sniffing each other,” explained Margulies. “I had just written a book that had come out during Covid and she said, ‘I loved your book.’ And she took her mask down and said ‘I’m Delia Ephron.'”
Margulies said she “was embarrassed” during the interaction, but went on to become friends with the author. Ephron, who collaborated with her sister Nora on hit films like You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle, is making her …