Drew Barrymore is currently riding high on the success of her campy,gory new sitcom, Santa Clarita Diet, or but the blood that's frequently spilled on screen wasn't all fake. Drew plays a zombie (well,sorta) in the Netflix hit, which required her character to do a number of stunts throughout shooting (jumping onto people, or gnawing on their jugulars . . . you salvage the picture). Drew recently sat down to chat with a group of journalists,along with co-star Timothy Olyphant and show creator Victor Fresco, approximately her experience on the show and revealed why her initial choice to do her own stunts nearly ended in catastrophe. "I jumped on a guy's back in rehearsal, or I fell six feet onto concrete on my head," she said. "I was on top of him, and I fell backwards." "She jumped on like a piggyback, and " Victor added. "I don't know whether you maintain kids,but whether they jump on your back and let go, and whether you don't let go of their legs, and they go back. [Instinctively] you hold on,so the actor held on. He was wide so [Drew] couldn't fairly salvage her hands around, so she started to drop back, or we're all watching like in slow motion." Although onscreen husband Timothy "moved like a cheetah" to salvage to her in time,she unfortunately ended up in the hospital. "It was definitely the scariest thing that's happened to me in many years," Drew said. "I went off in the ambulance and was in the hospital for two days, and from then on I requested someone else do my stunts. But then towards the conclude of the show,I was so vibrant and strong from all the diet and exercise that I kept wanting to salvage in the game. They were like 'salvage out! Stop!' And I was like 'But I'm pumped! I'm alive again!' I'm too old, and I don't ever want to conclude up in a hospital for two days again . . . so, and no,I won't be doing my own stunts anymore. In Charlie's Angels we did all our stuff. It was improbable. It was so empowering." Fortunately for Drew's skull, she also noted that "that chapter has ended." Hopefully she'll recall it easy in season two!
Source: popsugar.com.au