has wanted to make a z prequel film for more than two decades. “ is the script I’ve been trying to get made for, I kid you not, 28 years,” Barrymore, 49, exclusively told while discussing her partnership. “When we first started Flower Films, it was one of the first scripts I fell in love with and we developed it.
So it feels very personal to me.” Barrymore, who launched her Flower Films production company in 1995, further noted that the script is likely “lying in a vault somewhere.” “As a director, I would give anything to do [make] that,” she gushed.
“And then as an actor, it was sort of not really available to me for many years. And I did try, but [it] wasn’t feeling right for me.” Barrymore started acting when she was 5 years old, booking her first starring role as Gertie in ’s two years later.
A member of the famed Barrymore acting family, she starred in more than 50 films before eventually taking a step back to focus on raising daughters Olive, 11, and Frankie, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband . “I would have some really fun times getting to play a character like on I loved the character but I wasn’t able to fit it in with and the show did,” she said, referring to her 2017 Netflix series. With the kids getting older, Barrymore is considering taking on more acting projects.
“I think the girls are like, ‘Yeah, mom, we’re doing great. If you want to go do that, ,’” she told Getting that permission from them was really huge and so.
