Drew Barrymore (2020)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Drew Barrymore has spent almost her entire life in the public eye, starting with her breakthrough role in E.T. at just 7 years old and continuing over four decades of acting, producing and directing. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the Hollywood star to talk about her long career in the spotlight and making the transition into daytime television with her new talk show “The Drew Barrymore Show.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown Podcast.
0:06.2	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.6	Got another good one for you and another brand new one for you with Drew Barrymore.
0:13.9	Come on, Drew Barrymore.
0:14.9	Need I say more?
0:15.9	You know everything about her?
0:16.9	You've known her.
0:17.9	You've loved her for more than 40 years dating back to when she was the sweet little girl
0:21.6	in ET.
0:23.4	She's been an actor.
0:24.4	She's been a director.
0:25.4	She's been a producer.
0:26.8	She's been a powerhouse in every way.
0:29.0	She's now the mother of two beautiful little girls and the host of the Drew Barrymore
0:34.2	show, a daytime talk show.
0:36.8	She is the host, an entirely new adventure for Drew, who's spent her career up on screen
0:42.2	in movies and is now in that grind of every day putting out an hour of TV.
0:48.2	She's also doing it of course in the middle of a pandemic.
0:51.0	She started developing the Drew Barrymore show, which launched just last month, its first
0:55.0	season, and September 14th was the premiere.
0:58.6	She launched the idea a couple of years ago, has been talking about it with executives
1:03.2	at CBS, developed an idea, shot a pilot, and then of course along comes the coronavirus
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