Love Quote by Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan’s line reads like a shrug, but it’s really a small act of defiance against a system that loves to reward women only when they pretend not to want what they’re good at. “Franchise genre” is a sly, business-minded phrase: she’s borrowing studio language usually reserved for superheroes and sequels and applying it to romantic comedy, a category that’s been treated as disposable even while it reliably prints money and cultural memory. The intent is plainspoken ownership. The subtext is sharper: stop acting like mastery is a guilty pleasure.

“I don’t mind saying that” matters as much as the claim itself. It acknowledges the unspoken pressure to diversify, to “grow,” to graduate into gravitas - a pressure that hits actresses especially hard once their brand becomes legible. For decades, Ryan was positioned as the face of a genre that sold optimism with a knowing wink; later, that same association was used to box her in, then to sneer at the box. Her statement pushes back on the idea that romantic comedy is lesser work, or that repeating a strength is artistic laziness.

Context does the rest. Rom-coms have cycled from dominant to derided to nostalgically resurrected, and Ryan has become a shorthand for their peak era. By calling it her “franchise,” she reframes nostalgia as authorship: not a museum display of ’90s charm, but a career-long craft choice. “Hopefully always will” isn’t just personal preference - it’s a claim that the genre deserves continuity, and that she does too.