11/10/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/10/2026 09:49
"Heartland" Star Jessica Chastain
Air Date: Tuesday, November 10th
Photo Credit: The Drew Barrymore Show/Ash Bean
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MUST INCLUDE TUNE IN
VIDEOS:
Drew's News: Val on Wearing the Scarf From "One Day At A Time" & Drew Reveals What She kept from "E.T."
https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/a06dH3IXsli8
Drew: I feel like we are all giving like '70s something.
Val: This is literally from the '70s, I just realized.
Drew: Is this from your like archive closet?
Val: This is from One Day at a Time.
Drew: No!
Ross: You've had that since the '70s?
Val: I've had this since the '70s.
Ross: Can I touch it?
Val: Yes!
Ross: Oh my gosh.
Drew: Oh my god we have a piece of "One Day at a Time." You know, when we first started here, it not only was in the global pandemic, but you know I just wanted to make it really cozy and homey so I brought all my furniture from home.
Val: You did?
Drew: Everything in here is my furniture.
Val: Wow!
Drew: By the way it was kind of great because it was like good I have somewhere to put it and then I lined the walls with TV Guides, I went out and bought hundreds and hundreds of TV Guides.
Val: It's so great up there.
Drew: And you are in so many of them.
Ross: In the hallway you walk through, you go there's Val then, there's Val then -
Drew: There's Val then - yeah, but the "One Day at a Time" era, come on. That is from then?
Val: It's the '70s and '80s, yeah.
Ross: That is so cool that you have that still.
Val: I had very few things left from there, I didn't take a lot of stuff, I took a lot of stuff from "Hot in Cleveland." But I have my Elton John boots when Mack and I sang "Don't Go Breaking My Heart."
Ross: I heard Elton John gasps.
Drew: Oh my god that is so huge.
Val: Yes. I wish I still had that jacket with the feather sleeves but no, but I do have the boots.
Drew: Okay good.
Ross: What do you still have? Anything like iconic?
Val: Yeah! Do you have anything from -
Drew: I have my cowboy hat I wore in "E.T.."
Ross: You do?
Val: You do?
Drew: I do. I do, I have the hat.
Ross: That's big.
Val: That's huge!
Drew: And I don't treat it like anything special, just hanging in my closet.
Drew's News: Drew & Val on Going to Proms As Working Actors in their Teens
https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/ksPUjOztPjSK
Drew: Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato went from the red carpet to crashing someone else's prom. According to People magazine, the two pop stars recently revealed that in 2009 they were on the set of 'Princess Protection Program.' They were on the red carpet for that, and then they spotted a prom nearby, and they decided to join because they didn't go to their proms. They were working and so you know, this was a way to sort of like reclaim that.
Ross: Of course, it made me think about you two.
Valerie: Yeah, because you were working. I mean, we both grew up on set.
Drew: Did you go to your prom?
Valerie: I did.
Ross: Did you have a good time?
Valerie: I don't remember. Well, it was in the late 70s. I mean, it was a long time ago.
Ross: Did you go to your prom?
Drew: No, I didn't even go to high school. I went to some other people's proms when I was a kid.
Valerie: Did Josie Grossie go to, oh no, because you were undercover, but did you go to a prom in that?
Drew: Her prom is ruined, and then when she's older and in high school that prom also gets ruined, and yeah, maybe me and proms just aren't a thing.
Ross: Did you feel like you missed out on a prom? Is it something you wish you could have been able to go to?
Drew: No, no, I'm ok.
Ross: Really, yeah, because part of my fantasy, I wanna throw you a prom here. I just think like you never, right, she never got into it because it is a rite of passage. It is fun, but do you not feel the need for that?
Drew: Well, when you say it like that, I'm like, oh maybe I'm lying and just saying no because I didn't get to go, but if you tempt me and dangle a carrot with a prom.
Ross: Hold on, you want a prom? She wants a prom! She wants a prom! I think it would be fun to throw a prom just for you.
Drew: Oh my god, I don't know why, but I'll be there.
Jessica Chastain on Her Career & Crying Voice Mail Drew Left After She Won The Oscar
https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/RMCEXrO6NeFY
Drew: I love 'Heartland.'
Jessica: You do?
Drew: Oh god yes, I watched it front to back.
Jessica: I love you.
Drew: Now, this director also directed 'Country Strong' -
Jessica: Yes, Shana Feste.
Drew: - which I am also a huge fan of. And it's a woman, which I love.
Jessica: I know she's amazing. And she wrote it, too.
Drew: She's a writer, director, badass.
Jessica: And she's amazing, I auditioned for 'Country Strong' and I went in, this was, I think 2010, and she was so sweet to me and I always remembered that audition and so when I got this script and I saw her name I was so happy. Because I remember, I don't know if you do, you know time goes by but I remember the people who were really kind when they didn't have to be. Because when I first met her, none of my movies had come out, you know no one cared about who I was.
Drew: And you know your little man over here -
Jessica: I remember.
Drew: I mean I feel so lucky and territorial. It's like I used to watch Jessica on reels from, we were at the same agency. And me and Kelly Smith who worked at Flower Films, we would just pour through every inch of your work and we were like this is the greatest actress alive right now, like. And you know, listen, I don't need to say it, that Academy Award can speak for me. So yeah. I was just -
Jessica: Thank you. But also, did we say that when I won actually, I got the most amazing voice note from you.
Drew: Crying, by the way.
Jessica: No I was, it was really moving. So yeah, you and I, we go way back too.
Drew: I don't do that often, I feel comfortable enough with you, and that is always how I feel about you.
Jessica on Viral Dancing Video with Jeremy Strong
https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/t4rRt3NRr4d6
Drew: I have a video of you guys dancing, will you take a look?
Jessica: Oh my gosh.
Drew: Oh my god, oh my god, now that's how jeans were meant to be worn.
Jessica: I know this is, we found ourselves in like, oh my gosh it's so silly.
Drew: Oh my god, he's the cutest dancer.
Jessica: I know the funny thing is we were at some fashion week, I think it was Milan or something, we found out we were both gonna be there and this is, there was a party in one of the hotel rooms and so like all the young, cool people were in one room and Jeremy Strong and I were having a dance party in the other, but it was like Paul Mescal and all these really cool people talking and we were just being fools.
Drew: I'd be in that room with you.
Jessica: Yes!
Jessica on Never Scaring The Child Actor in "Other Mommy"
https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/Dx4hmrYQsUCR
Drew: Did you have a hard time scaring a child in 'Other Mommy' since you are a mom yourself?
Jessica: Yes and actually we made sure in the scenes where I was scaring…, she wasn't there. So there were doubles always for her so and then when we did at one point did like an additional shoot, and we did a scene together and I did the smile but like way more intense that comes at the end, toward the end of the movie and she was like wait what is happening right now? Because she had not been used to seeing me like that at all, you know, so Frankie, no, I did not scare her.
Drew Brings Back Her Gertie Pigtails for "E.T." Fan Jessica Chastain
https://www.instagram.com/p/DfiU-lZxwgA/
Jessica: I love 'E.T..' I love that movie and I just -
Drew: Wait, I'm sorry, hold that thought.
Jessica: What?
Drew: Where is my stuff? Oh it's behind…
Jessica: What is happening?
Drew: And then is there a - is there something else coming?
Jessica: No you are not doing this.
Drew: The last time I wore this was for Ryan Gosling, so I feel like, there we go. Just weird.
Jessica: What is happening?
Drew: I know right, what is happening? Why? Why am I like this?
Jessica: Oh my god I love you so much. Oh my gosh.
Drew: It's so weird.
Jessica: It's not weird, this is why you are who you are and I love you. This is amazing. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be -
Drew: I just, do you have a question for Gertie?
Jessica: Um, can you do my makeup someday? Because that scene where you give E.T. -
Drew: The makeover! As the old lady!
Jessica: Yes I would love, next time I come here can Gertie give me a makeover?
Drew: She should! Oh god that's Josie Grossie. Yes, absolutely, alligators in the sewers, absolutely.