'She was living a life at a very tender age that I think robbed her of her childhood.'
, the Oscar-winning filmmaker recalled feeling powerless over Drew’s rocky home life after he cast her in the iconic fantasy film.Drew’s parents were actors John Drew Barrymore and Ildikó Jaid Makó, but as a child, the Charlie’s Angels star asked Spielberg if he would be her dad.
The director, who was 36 at the time, told her “no”, instead accepting the title of godfather. Drew even stayed with the Spielberg family on the weekends, going to theme parks with them. “She was staying up way past her bedtime, going to places she should have only been hearing about, and living a life at a very tender age that I think robbed her of her childhood,” the filmmaker recounted.In the interview, Drew called her father an “abusive drunk”, adding that her first memory of him was when he “stormed in and tossed her into a wall” when she was three.
“I didn’t want to burst the bubble,” he said. “So I simply said, ‘It’s okay, E.T. is so special E.T. has eight assistants. I am the director, I only have one.’” This week, Drew faced something of a backlash after she said in the same Vulture interview that she “
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