- We welcome you back to the Drew Barrymore Show.
My name is Gail King, and you may know our next guest.
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From 15 and Getting Straight, Wayne's World 2.
Or how about this? Her cameo in Waxworks 2.
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- Please welcome the host
of the Drew Barrymore Show, Drew Barrymore.
Hi, Drew Barrymore! (audience applauds)
- It's so weird. I love this.
- So what is happening in that clip we just watched?
You were the blonde in the middle.
- So this was Waxworks 2 and the director called me
and said, "Can you show up at this mall at midnight?
We're gonna shoot a scene and we need two actresses,
you know, in a bed,
but we're just shooting it in the middle of a mall."
- Do you even know who the other actress is beside you?
Do you remember her?
- She's not an actress. She was my friend Hadrian.
I was like, "I'm with my girlfriend, Hadrian."
And he's like-- - And he said bring her too.
- He said bring her too.
And that's how we ended up in a scene in Waxworks 2.
- That's funny. That's funny.
- So that's the backstory to that.
(audience applauds) - Okay, so Drew
is always asking guests about behind the scenes moments
from their projects.
So today we're turning the tables on you
and asking about you.
- [Drew] I can't believe it.
- It's time for behind the scenes.
Do you feel like playing?
- Yes, I do. - Okay.
- [Drew] Especially with you.
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- I think this is hilarious.
First up, Amy Fisher. That was such a huge story.
- I was very uncomfortable.
It was like one of my first roles that was sexy.
You know she was the Long Island Lolita.
I was trying to change my own image
from being like a kid, you know, actress
and I thought, oh well, go sexy.
That'll be an interesting turn of events.
But I wasn't comfortable doing it.
And then I got really comfortable doing it for many years.
So this film sort of broke me.
- Next, Doppelganger.
- They kept sending me home early,
which never happens on movie sets,
so that they could film stuff that they wouldn't
tell me was happening in the movie.
But apparently, I keep turning into some alien,
but I wasn't there when they shot those scenes,
'cause I don't know, they didn't wanna tell me that.
So I still have never seen the full movie.
- [Gail] Well, there's time.
- Yeah, oh god.
It's so bad. - There's time.
Okay, Bad Girls.
- Okay, this was important for me.
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This was huge.
This was the first time I got hired back for a studio film,
because all I was doing were B movies.
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And I had just had a B movie hit called Poison Ivy.
- [Gail] I remember that, yes.
I remember that. - Thank you.
- Let's go to Wedding Singer. I love Wedding Singer.
'Cause it's you and Adam Sandler.
I love you and Adam Sandler.
- Well I showed up to Adam and I said,
"I'm convinced you and I are supposed
to do a movie movie together.
And I have a production company that I'm starting,
Flower Films.
You have Happy Madison and I'd like to join forces.
What if we put our production companies together
and created something?"
- And Wedding Singer was born--
- And the Wedding Singer was born.
- And the haircut?
- I love the haircut.
- You love the haircut? Okay.
Charlie's Angels.
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Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
- I thought why do women always have to be so serious
and brooding in action movies?
- That was quite the trio.
And it reminds me, your very first show,
you did a reunion with...
That's what I remember. - That's right.
- I've never seen A, the technology that you did,
and it was just so nice to see the three of you.
So bravo to you. Great Gardens?
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Oh wow.
- The director didn't want me, Michael Susi.
And they kept saying,
"We want an actress who has won awards for this film."
- So did you convince him to put you in the...
- So I showed up and I said,
"I just want you to hear my case."
And I sat down and I brought a binder this big,
and every page was highlighted and annotated
and it was about her life.
And there were probably over 1,000 in there.
And I said, "I will work night and day.
I will get lost in this.
But I know you want someone who's won awards.
How do you think those people get that chance?"
- Wow, yes.
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Go you.
And that's why I always say,
when someone says no, no backwards is on.
So you say game on, and that's what you did.
And finally I chose E.T. for me.
I chose E.T.
I love E.T.
E.T. is still playing.
We actually found a clip of you.
- Really? - Viewing your own
performance of E.T. - Oh my god.
- Roll tape please.
- [Interviewer] What about Drew Barrymore?
What do you think of the job she did?
You have mixed feelings about it?
Didn't you think you did a real good job?
- That's medium.
One down and one up is medium.
(audience applauds) - I'm still that critical.
That movie taught me that,
if you are not born into a strong family unit,
that you can find it along the way.
- [Gail] Yes, yes, yes.
Yes. (audience applauds)
Very true, very true. - And it changed my life
forever.
You can always go and forge and find and form families,
and I think all of these experiences have been
about wanting to hold onto that
and be a part of keeping that going.
That's been my real life source
of happiness and stability. - May that continue.
May that continue.
Would you mind taking us to break?
- I would love to, Gail.
When we come back, we're gonna give you a taste
of the latest Drew's News podcast episode,
'cause we get to get a lot spicier there.
You know, it's not daytime, Gail.
We get to go to some more less PG.
A little more, not exactly R, but somewhere in between.
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