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Published 17:14 11 Mar 2021 GMT
Drew Barrymore has announced that, for the time being at least, she is quitting movies.
In an interview on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM show, Radio Andy, the actress, 46, opened up about her career and said: "If I'm being honest, I don't want to be on a film set right now.
"But that could change when my kids are older. I stopped doing these when my kids were born because I've done it since I was in diapers at 11-months-old when I started.
"And it was a no-brainer to me to put making movies on a back burner so that I could be present and raise my kids myself.
"I didn't want to be on a film set asking the nanny how the kids were. I was like, 'that is not my journey'. And so when you step away from it, it's a lot less scary."
Barrymore's career began when she was just five years old in 1980 in Altered States, and she went on to star in a number of iconic movies.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, these are the best-rated movies she's appeared in - all of which have particularly impressive scores.
10. Boys On The Side (1995) - 74%
9. Big Miracle (2012) - 75%
8. Everyone Says I Love You (1996) - 79%
7. Scream (1976) - 79%
6. Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002) - 79%
5. Altered States (1980) - 84%
4. Whip It (2009) - 84%
3. Donnie Darko (2001) - 87%
2. Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) - 91%
1. E.T. The Extra-Terestrial (1982) - 98%
During her appearance on Andy Cohen's radio show, Barrymore also credited her role in the Netflix series the Santa Clarita Diet for "saving" her.
"I got to do at the perfect time, this like Netflix show called Santa Clarita Diet," she added. "I was so knee-deep into mothering my kids. I was like, 'I don't know who I am anymore.' I think I went way too far the opposite direction.
"If I can't remember that I'm an individual with a skill set, I might die. So then I got to play this woman who gets to eat people and it was exactly how I felt.
"And it was just perfect and it was a comedy and it was delicious and it was fun and it was irreverent and I couldn't have loved it more. And it really saved me.
"That show was the greatest thing that could have ever happened to me."
However, while it might be sad to know that Barrymore won't be appearing in any more movies any time soon, she won't be completely gone from our screens.
She is still hosting her own talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show – which debuted on CBS last September.
