Drew Barrymore asked Steven Spielberg to be her dad while makingE.T.
So much so that Barrymore even asked Spielberg to be her father. He declined, though he did eventually agree to become her godfather. “Yet I felt very helpless because I wasn’t her dad. Steven Spielberg and Drew Barrymore.Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images I could only kind of be a consigliere to her.” Part of Spielberg’s dad energy came from his desire to help maintain Barrymore’s childlike wonder on set. “I really loved him in such a profound way,” she said....