Movie director Steven Spielberg has just revealed that one of the most seminal moments in movie history was a fraud, by admitting that E.T. was actually phoning his cocaine dealer and not “home” as was previously believed.
Breaking his silence after nearly thirty four years, Spielberg also revealed that the alien became highly addicted to the drug during the production process and the cute extraterrestrial was actually suffering from withdrawal symptoms during the scenes where he was sick.
“What can I say, it was the early eighties, everyone in Hollywood was doing coke,” revealed Spielberg in an interview the New York Times recently. “We wanted to try and protect the alien from drugs because we weren’t sure how his metabolism would react to cocaine so we sent him to live with Drew Barrymore while we were shooting the movie.”
“That turned out to be the biggest mistake we ever made,” admitted Spielberg. “Despite only being six years old, Barrymore was already snorting up to a pound of coke a week and before long E.T. had a similar habit. We really had some great times making that movie.”
“E.T. would just be walking around the set constantly saying ‘E.T. phone coke’ we all thought it was hilarious and decided that we had to use it in the movie,” continued Spielberg, who claims to have had a similar problem with the Shark from Jaws. “But it was a kids movie so we decided to change the ‘coke’ to ‘home’, little did we know it would go on to become one of the most famous lines in a movie ever.”
“The fun stopped when he got really strung out, at one point we caught him in the studio toilets giving Dan Ackroyd a blowjob for an eight ball,” claimed the director. “That’s when we had an intervention for him, he went cold turkey on the set, he had really bad withdrawal symptoms so had to rewrite the script and include the bt where he got sick, thankfully it all worked out in the end.”
According to Spielberg, E.T. managed to kick his cocaine habit and has gone on to enjoy a fruitful career as actor Danny Di Vito.
