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Barrymore & Lewis Swap Roles: What-If Scenarios

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Drew Barrymore and Juliette Lewis reminisced about roles they nearly played but passed on to each other, including Barrymores lead in Riding in Cars with Boys and Lewiss Oscar-nominated role in Cape Fear. They also discussed Barrymores audition for Natural Born Killers and the lack of female action roles before Charlies Angels.

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Barrymore & Lewis Swap Roles: What-If Scenarios

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Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Barrymore & Lewis Swap Roles: What-If Scenarios. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On April 9th, Drew Barrymore and Juliette Lewis, co-stars from the 2009 Roller Derby flick, Whip It, cut up on Barrymore's daytime show, and dished about roles they nearly snagged but handed off to each other over the years. Lewis kicked it off, saying she auditioned for Barrymore's lead in writing in cars with boys, that 2001 dramedy based on a real mom's wild. Life story with a messy marriage and single parenting grind. Barrymore fired back, admitting she read for K Fear back in 1991. The intense Martin Scorsese thriller where Lewis played the trouble teen who got an Oscar nod for locking horns with Robert De Niro. Both cracked up over the what-ifs, with Barrymore calling her audition a disaster since she had to play both sides of a creepy scene solo on a Sunday. Morning, and Lewis owning, she was bummed to miss that juicy part too. They kept the vibes rolling, touching on Barrymore testing for Lewis's feral killer role in natural born killers from 1994, praising, how rare it was then for women to unleash an action flicks

before Charlie's Angels change the game. That's your update from Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.

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