CinemaComo Drew Barrymore influenced Steven Spielberg’s decision to have children to actress starred ‘et o the extraterrestrial’ when he was only 6 years old by writing

Drew Barrymore influenced Steven Spielberg to have children after acting in ET THE EXTRATERRESTRE (1982).

During the panel brokered by Dave Krager node TCM Classic Film FestivalIn New York last Saturday, the duo, the duo talked about the feature film.

“I think that ETfor me, it is the movie that I am most proud of, because it changed my life, “he said Barrymorewhich, when he starred in production, was only six years old (via People). “There is no doubt about it.”

“Everything in my life is about how a human being believed in me, and this is the life I try to honor every day,” he continued.

Spielberg He said, then, that the film also changed his life: “To that point – 1981, 1982 – I was just making movies. This was my life. I was obsessed with telling stories but driving ET It made me want to be a father for the first time. I had never thought about it until ET“

The actress joked asking if she had not ruined everything to the director, who replied, “The opposite.”

Spielberg further revealed that ET THE EXTRATERRESTRE It was probably the feature film he directed most watched, “partially because I showed the movie to all my children.”

In 2022, Spielberg also spoke about children, aged 28 to 48, during an interview in the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival: “I didn’t want to have children because it wasn’t an equation that made sense to me, since I was going from movie to movie, from script to script. It never crossed my head to half of ET“

“I was a father in that movie, especially with the Drewwhich was only 6 years old, “he added.

He added, “And I started to think, ‘Well, maybe that may be my real life someday.’ It was the first time that it occurred to me that I could be a father.