Forty years after E.T. phoned home, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi classic is still full of wonder. Drew Barrymore, who starred in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial when she was just a child, is celebrating the big anniversary by reuniting her former castmates Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, and Robert McNaughton on her talk show The Drew Barrymore Show.
Barrymore recalled with childlike innocence how she thought E.T. was real and how she’d hang out with him when she was on set.
The Drew Barrymore Show set had been transformed into a forest with stills from the set of E.T. and the film’s subsequent premieres and events, serving as a hyper-nostalgic backdrop to the cast as they traded stories about their time creating the film.
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The cast also discussed whether they would ever reunite on screen for an E.T. sequel — but given the film’s classic status and the fact that original screenwriter Melissa Mathison died in 2015, none of them are very interested.
The full episode of The Drew Barrymore Show aired on Monday, October 31st, but you can rewatch the episode online!
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