Drew Barrymore Reunites With “E.T.” Mom Ahead of Film’s 40th Anniversary

Drew Barrymore, star of the 1982 film E.T., reunited with her on-screen mother, played by Dee Wallace, on a recent episode of the Drew Barrymore Show.

This week is the film’s 40th anniversary, which will take place at the 2022 TCM Classic Film Festival, and Wallace and Barrymore used their touching moment to reflect on what it was like to film the classic flick.

“That was the first day on the set and I’m sitting in this really high director’s chair,” Dee, 73, recalled of a nostalgic photo. “And Drew comes up to me and she says, ‘Hi, I’m going to sit on your lap now.’ And I said, ‘Well, come on up Drew.’” She added, “I mean, I knew you were going to be a director/producer back then.”

Dee also revealed that Barrymore, as a child, seemed to believe that E.T. was real; so much so, that the actress would stumble upon the young Barrymore talking to the puppet.

“From that time on, [director Steven Spielberg] had two guys on E.T. at all times, so that any time you went over to talk to him, his eyes could work and his head could go up and down and he could respond to you,” she said, as the two laughed at the memory.

Soon, Barrymore plans to reunite with Speilberg, as well as her onscreen brother Henry Thomas to continue the celebrations.

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