Drew Barrymore has revealed how she was told by producers that she 'took it too far' while filming Never Been Kissed.
Barrymore, 49, starred in the movie back in 1999 when she was 23.
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The iconic nineties film stars Barrymore as socially awkward Chicago Sun Times copy editor, Josie Gellar, who gets her big break when she has the chance to infiltrate her former high school as a research project on teen culture.
But she never imagines she'll end up falling for her English teacher, Sam Coulson.
Speaking about her role in the movie, Barrymore has since said that she felt 'scared' during filming as she was told she'd made herself look 'too unattractive'.
“I would get these calls from the studio and they were like, ‘I’m sorry, but you’re just looking too unattractive'," she told the Hey, Dude podcast.
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"And I was like, ‘good.’ And they were like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no.’ They were like, ‘It’s too far'."
Barrymore said she was then 'forced to even tone it down a little bit because I had gone even farther than they were.'
Apparently, the studio gave her advice that 'appealed to [her] sensibilities rather than [her ego]', and said she shouldn't 'lose the heart because you’re going so far for the comedy'.
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She added: “I was very stressed throughout the movie.
“What you see [in Never Been Kissed] is me dialled back and it came out and it worked and we got really lucky."
The film - which had a budget of $25m - was a huge success and ended up grossing $85m.
LADbible has reached out to 20th Century Studios for comment.
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The interview comes as Barrymore recently opened up about her surprisingly ordinary life.
The TV host and actress went viral in January after she shared a video to Instagram which showed her watching TV in her home.
Fans were immediately taken aback by the size of the star's television set.
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Barrymore has an eye-watering net worth of $125 million, so you might have expected a wall-to-wall screen in her living room.
But instead, it appeared that the 49-year-old had opted to go with a more modest television set upon a television stand.
Whilst some applauded her for not being overly extravagant, others felt she wasn't actually filming in her house.
"Why is Drew Barrymore’s TV so small and bad. What’s going on. I’m unsettled," one commenter admitted.
Another wrote: "The size of your TV and the simplicity of your home makes me love you even more."
Topics: Celebrity, Drew Barrymore, TV and Film
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