Tuesday 1 November 2022 10:07 PM Drew Barrymore's iconic hat from E.T. STILL FITS 40 years after the ... trends now

The small red cowboy hat Drew Barrymore wore in iconic 1982 film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial still fits.

The 47-year-old A-lister tried on the hat made famous by her character Gertie in a snap posted by Universal Pictures on Tuesday in celebration of he movie's 40th anniversary.

Drew looked so pleased to be wearing the headwear from the role that helped her rise to fame at just six-years-old.

The American film production and distribution company shared a side by side snap of Drew present day with the hat on along with a younger version of herself on set of E.T.

Universal Pictures captioned the snap: 'It's been 40 years and the hat still fits [cowboy hat emoji] #ET40'

Last week Drew reunited with the cast of iconic 1982 film  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to mark the film's 40th anniversary - with the emotional moment captured for a special Halloween episode of her chat show.

The acclaimed actress shot to fame when she starred in the Steven Spielberg film  - with the star visibly emotional as she was joined by Henry Thomas, 51, (who played her brother Elliott) Robert McNaughton (who played eldest brother Michael and Dee Wallace, 73, (who played the children's mom Mary.) 

In the movie, 10-year-old Elliott befriends an alien, who becomes stranded on Earth after his fellow aliens depart in their spaceship without him.

Elliott later introduces the alien, who names himself E.T. for Extra-Terrestrial, to Gertie and his older brother Michael. 

The siblings, along with their mother Mary and Elliott's friends, later help E.T. escape from the government and return home - with the film becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time - a record it held for 11 years.

As the group reflected on their touching memories of the making of the film, Drew said she 'believed E.T. was real.'

She said: 'I really loved him in such a profound way. Is it like true that, what would happen, because I would go and take lunch to him.'

Henry added: 'The first thing I remember is that we were on stage and it was quite cold on the stage and you asked the wardrobe lady if you could have a scarf for E.T.’s neck because he was gonna get cold, so you wrapped the scarf around his neck. But Dee has a great story. 

Dee revealed that director Spielberg, touched by Drew's love for the alien, ensured that she would always be able to chat to E.T. 

She said: 'We found you over there just talking away to E.T. and so we let Steven know and so Steven from that time on appointed two guys to keep E.T. alive so whenever you came over to talk to him he could react to you.'

The cast then discussed whether a sequel to the film would ever be in the works, but they quickly ruled it out. 

Henry said: 'I mean they talked about it in the early eighties because it was such a success and I think Universal wanted the sequel, but I think it’s hard to think about a sequel with Melissa Mathison who passed away recently, it’s hard to think about a sequel without a script from her because she was really the heart and soul of it.