Drew Barrymore reunites with Ever After castmates in costume for 25th anniversary of Cinderella film

On Tuesday, The Drew Barrymore Show producer-host Drew Barrymore hosted a special 25th anniversary reunion for her film Ever After alongside three original cast members.

The 48-year-old former child star’s team had ‘about a week’ to recreate Jenny Beavan’s 16th century costumes for the nostalgic segment.

Drew – who starred as Danielle de Barbarac – enlisted Matthew Kilgore to create her Cinderella-inspired gold-and-peach embellished gown, and Deanna Bridges crafted her custom wings.

Barrymore ‘literally can’t even believe’ she got to share the moment with Melanie Lynskey and Megan Dodds, who played her nice and evil stepsisters Jacqueline and Marguerite de Ghent.

The Sherman Oaks native was ‘so jealous’ that her co-stars got to share a ‘massive, great house with a gorgeous view of the Dordogne River Valley’ in the South of France during production.

The 53-year-old NoCal native revealed that she and the 45-year-old Kiwi sporadically decided to ‘take topless photos in a cornfield’ of each other because it would be ‘groovy.’

‘I cannot love it more!’ Drew gushed.

‘By the way, this was, like, day three of knowing each other,’ Melanie noted.

‘And the suggestion was made, and I was, like, okay sure!’

Megan chimed in: ‘A little ice breaker!’

At that point, Barrymore welcomed her onscreen love interest Dougray Scott, who played Prince Henry of France in Ever After.

The Scottish 57-year-old personally thanked the seven-time Emmy nominee for ‘going to bat’ for him during the discouraging audition process at the time.

Drew marveled at the fact that we’ve been telling little girls ‘to wait for the prince to rescue them’ in Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairytale Cinderella for ‘centuries’ and ‘never thought twice.’

‘Until you came along and rescued me,’ Dougray interrupted.

‘Yes, you did, rather magnificently as I seem to remember.’

Barrymore – who promptly buried her face in her hands – recalled how they had to put Scott in a wire harness for one stunt involving her lifting him out of peril from Romani bandits in the woods.

‘As strong as person as I was inside, you are a big all man guy and I couldn’t carry you,’ the perky presenter explained.

‘So we had to make it, like, look seamless and perfect. And of course we were in the woods, so we were like where are we going to hang the wires from? But it turned out really perfect.’

Andy Tennant’s critically-acclaimed 1998 romantic Renaissance-era drama also featured Anjelica Huston, Toby Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Richard O’Brien, Lee Ingleby, and Patrick Godfrey.

Ever After – now streaming on Disney+ – went on to impressively amassed $98M at the global box office from a modest $26M budget.

Drew also interviewed Lynskey one-on-one, out of costume, where she confessed: ‘I don’t unpack for the first two weeks of a shoot because I think I’m going to get fired. I’m always convinced.’

‘Let me just not unpack because it’s so depressing to take things out of the drawers,’ the Emmy-nominated Yellowjackets star admitted.

‘Like, and then at a certain point I feel like they’ve filmed too much. They can’t go back! I’m not gonna get fired now.’

Barrymore’s syndicated CBS daytime talk show, now in its third season, will next feature Melanie Lynskey yet again as well as A Good Person director Zach Braff and Peloton instructor Ally Love.