Drew Barrymore Dons Iconic ‘E.T.’ Cowgirl Hat 40 Years Later: It ‘Still Fits’

Drew Barrymore, 47, is nary longer small Gertie, but connected Oct. 31 she enactment connected the iconic reddish chapeau erstwhile much for the E.T. reunion on The Drew Barrymore Show. “It’s been 40 years and the chapeau inactive fits #ET40,” the histrion and Universal Pictures captioned a co-shared Instagram photo. In the adorable side-by-side snapshot, Drew placed the reddish cowgirl chapeau connected apical of her 47-year-old aforesaid adjacent to a photograph of a younger Drew dressed arsenic Gertie from the cult classic. On June 11, the Steven Spielberg–directed movie officially turned 40 years old, and the formed got unneurotic during the Halloween occurrence of Drew’s show.

Many of the movie’s fanbase took to the comments conception of the station to gush astir however adorable the TV big looked successful her hat. “Howdy, Gertie,” 1 admirer commented, portion different said, “I hide she was a child star. Firestarter was 1 of my favorites.” The representation was besides shared via Twitter, wherever adjacent more E.T. fans continued to compliment Drew connected the throwback photo. “Aw, that’s conscionable precious,” a Twitter follower quipped. One of the actress’ followers adjacent thanked Drew for having the formed reunite during Monday’s occurrence of her show. “I watched your amusement for the ET reunion and it was unthinkable it brought backmost a batch of puerility memories. There was a large infinitesimal connected tv for ET fans! Thank you!,” the instrumentality wrote.

The cast members of the deed 1982 movie that joined the Charlie’s Angels star connected her deed speech amusement included Henry Thomas (Elliot), 51, Robert MacNaughton (Michael), 55, and Dee Wallace (Mary), 73. During the iconic meetup, Drew told Henry however instrumental helium was successful making the movie happen. “I don’t deliberation immoderate of this would’ve worked without you,” she gushed. “You were the cleanable Elliot.” The Legends of the Fall actor past complimented his costar backmost by praising her for her acting skills astatine specified a young age. “Thanks, but erstwhile I ticker it now, I can’t judge however comic you were and however cute you were,” helium said. Robert past chimed successful and called drew a “little country stealer.” Henry past joked that adjacent contiguous Drew doesn’t adjacent request to talk due to the fact that erstwhile she’s connected the surface the absorption of the assemblage instantly shifts to her.

Drew Barrymore was six years aged erstwhile she starred successful ‘E.T.’ successful 1982. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock/Courtesy Everett Collection)

During the occurrence the FLOWER Beauty laminitis went connected to uncover that erstwhile she was filming the movie astatine six years old, she thought the Extra-Terrestrial being was real. “Now I believed E.T. was real,” she told her castmates. “I truly loved him successful specified a profound way, I would spell and instrumentality luncheon to him.” Henry past shared an adorable communicative of however Drew really requested a scarf for the E.T quality due to the fact that she believed “he would get cold.” Dee besides shared a saccharine representation that moved Drew to tears. “We recovered you implicit determination conscionable talking distant to E.T. and truthful we fto Steven know,” Dee past said. “So Steven, from that clip on, appointed 2 guys to support E.T. live truthful whenever you came implicit to speech to him, helium could respond to you.”

Since her clip on E.T., Drew has gone connected to go 1 of Hollywood’s astir palmy actresses starring successful astir 100 deed movies. During the precocious 1990s she became 1 of the favourite histrion successful romanticist comedies including the movie Never Been Kissed starring Michael Vartan. Later, she starred alongside Adam Sandler, 56, successful the 2004 comedy 50 First Dates. She besides played Dylan Sanders successful the 2000 mentation of Charlie’s Angels alongside Lucy Liu, 53, and Cameron Diaz, 50. These days she is engaged hosting her daytime speech amusement and moving her quality brand, FLOWER Beauty. She was joined to Will Kopelman from 2012 to 2016 and unneurotic they had two kids: Olive, 10, and Frankie, 8.