Drew Barrymore is getting actual about why her company get an additional dose of TLC on her discuss present.
On Tuesday, Barrymore had a candid dialog with Cynthia Erivo about why she may be so affectionate and what it has to do together with her private life.
She mentioned that being single is a big a part of why she craves bodily connection.
“I don’t know how I would ever hold back from holding hands, hugging, snuggling,” Barrymore mentioned.
The “Charlie’s Angels” star famous that she, like most individuals, has seen the “electric connection” between Erivo and her “Wicked” co-star Ariana Grande throughout their press run for the movie.
“Is it true that she is as touchy?” Barrymore requested. She instructed Erivo that folks must “warn me” to “back off a little bit” with company.
However Erivo welcomed Barrymore’s touchy-feely nature, saying she appreciates it as a Capricorn.
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“I think I’m sort of used to it now,” Erivo mentioned. “If it’s not connected, I’m like: ‘What’s wrong? What’s happening? Where are you?’” She added that if bodily contact isn’t current, she seeks it out.
Erivo additionally instructed Barrymore that she feels individuals are “afraid of physical connection.”
“We assume that physical connection can only be romantic,” Erivo mentioned. Barrymore exclaimed: “Yes! That’s my point! You’re saying it so much better than I did.”
“In fact, I think when there is a romantic connection, I’m far more timid,” Barrymore continued.
Erivo recommended that folks don’t all the time understand “that how we communicate sometimes is by physical touch.”
“Sometimes you can’t say anything, and you’re in a room and it’s just like a squeeze of a hand,” she mentioned.
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Erivo instructed Barrymore {that a} easy “squeeze of the hand, or just a pinch of a finger” is how she and Grande typically talk.
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“If we could all be more comfortable with physical touch, I would like that world,” Barrymore replied.
Throughout an August interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” Barrymore mentioned she deliberate to get higher at practising “physical distance,” which she mentioned “is not my strong point.”
“Do you know how hard the pandemic was for me? I was alone in a studio by myself,” she mentioned. “I like to be around people.”
