Henry Thomas on ‘E.T.' fame: ‘I wasn't ready for it'
Henry Thomas, forever remembered as Elliott in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , said he wasn’t prepared for the fame that
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Henry Thomas on ‘E.T.' fame: ‘I wasn't ready for it'
Henry Thomas, forever remembered as Elliott in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 hit E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , said he wasn’t prepared for the fame that followed.
Speaking on The Hollywood Correspondent ’s It Happened in Hollywood podcast, the player looked back at how his life changed overnight after the feature’s launch.
Thomas was just 10 years old when E.T. hit theaters and became a cultural phenomenon.
Within two weeks of the feature’s launch, his phone began ringing with offers from agencies that had previously ignored him.
“I wasn’t ready for the fame. I had never even thought about being famous,” he recalled. “The first time someone recognized me, it felt bizarre. And then there was this pressure to follow it up.”
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