“He is the only person in my life who has ever had a parent figure.“, says Drew Barrymore about Steven Spielberg in a portrait published by the magazine security bug. The second role of his career was offered to him by the director.ET, extraterrestrialIt was filmed in 1981 when he was just six years old. The article says that, exceptionally, the filmmaker decided to shoot the scenes of the feature film in chronological order so the kids would be most emotionally involved, but at the same time, Drew Barrymore believed the creature was truly alive! He had lunch with her, told her his secrets, and not daring to tell her the truth, the director held her with the remote control so that ET could react at any moment to what the little girl was telling him.
During filming, the very young actor asked Steven Spielberg to be his father. The latter refused, but agreed to become his godfather. Every weekend she hired him, gave him a cat, and took him to Disneyland. However, despite himself, Drew Barrymore was already starting to fall for the excesses of show business. One day she came to the set with lipstick, the director asked her to take off her lipstick. Even Steven Spielberg says: “When she should be in bed, she just goes where she needs to be heard, living a life at a sensitive age that I think steals her childhood. Yet I felt completely helpless because I was not her father. I can only advise him.“.
Accustomed to the sulphurous Studio 54 on Broadway at a very young age, Drew Barrymore quickly became a fan of nightlife and fell on drugs before he was a teenager. He used marijuana at the age of 10, took cocaine at the age of 12… This was followed by rehabilitation at the age of 13, suicide attempt, return to treatment and liberation from his family the following year. Fortunately, at the age of 15, the star managed to regain control of her life, but was blacklisted from Hollywood. After four years of absence from the cinema, Drew Barrymore resolutely made his return to the big screen in 1989 and embarked on a very long and prolific career.
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Source: Programme Television
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