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Henry Thomas Reflects on Working with Steven Spielberg on ‘E.T.’ on Its 40th Anniversary · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. This month marks the
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  Speaker 1: fourtieth anniversary of one of the most influential, popular, and
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  Speaker 1: critically acclaimed kids movies ever, Et the Extra Terrestrial. It
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  Speaker 1: was directed by Steven Spielberg, who himself went on to
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  Speaker 1: become one of cinema's most acclaimed filmmakers. But Henry Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: who starred as the kid Elliott at the heart of ET. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen was at a very different point in his career
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  Speaker 1: back in two, telling Yahoo he was only thirty three
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  Speaker 1: at the time, relatively young and not the bona fide
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  Speaker 1: success he is today. It was great because he was
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  Speaker 1: in there, involved with everything. That was the impression I got.
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  Speaker 1: If he could have done the whole thing by himself,
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  Speaker 1: he would have, but he had also collaborative energy where
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  Speaker 1: he'd say, that's an interesting idea, let's go with that.
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  Speaker 1: Both ET and Jaws, another Steven Spielberg's classics, will both
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  Speaker 1: screen on Imax theaters later this summer. That's Direct from Hollywood.