“People We Meet on Vacation” Star Tom Blyth

Air Date: Monday, January 19^th  

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Drew’s News: Drew Reacts to Martha Stewart's Plans to Be Composted When She Dies & Reveals Where She’d Like Her Remains To Go 

Drew: Oh its about Martha Stewart Rossy.

Ross: Oh we love Martha Stewart.

Drew: Somebody’s been spending a little time with Martha Stewart. Well listen to this, she has some interesting plans for when she dies. She says no coffins. It gives me Edna from ‘The Incredibles.’ ‘No capes.’ She wants to be composted on her farm and Martha says when her horses die she buries them in a lovely giant grave field and that’s how she wants to handle her moving on to wherever we go next. Thoughts and feelings?

Ross: Ok yeah.

Sunny: You have been to the compound. Tell us Rossy.

Ross: I don’t wanna talk about it. I’ve been to the farm. She said you must see the peonies and I went and I saw the peonies I got a whole tour of the farm I did everything. It’s a good place to spend eternity I have to say if you’re gonna be buried somewhere. Have you thought about it Drew, what you want, where you wanna be.

Drew: Wherever it is, it’s not in a box. I would love to be in the ground naturally or have my ashes anywhere. I would love to be buried under the roots of an avocado tree. Actually it’s in my will.

Sunny: Just any random avocado tree?

Drew: Pretty much. I had an avocado tree in my backyard growing up in this tiny duplex in West Hollywood and really picture something quite junky and minimalist. Not grand or anything like that it really was West Hollywood tough neighborhood, little avocado tree in the back and I would just go with my spoon and salt and pick them off the tree and because of that childhood memory I want to be buried under an avocado tree so I totally get this.

 

Drew Shares Her Connection to Tom’s Last Name Blyth

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Drew: Your last name Blyth.

Tom: Blyth, yeah.

Drew: My name is Drew Blythe Barrymore.

Tom: Wait, are you, are you joking? Are you serious? Really? Nobody warned me this. They wanted me to be surprised.

Drew: I was so excited to meet another Blythe. My, great grandfather was named Herbert Blythe.

Tom: What a name.

Drew: And that's his name. And then there was this family called the Drews that was an acting family. Then when Herbert Blythe met Georgiana Drew, he changed his name for a stage name and named himself Maurice Barrymore. So there's the Blythe, the Barrymore, and the Drew, hence I'm Drew Blythe Barrymore.

 

Tom Blyth on How "Donnie Darko” Made Him Want to Be an Actor 

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Drew: Your dad and you with ‘Donnie Darko?’

Tom: Yeah so this is very cool for me.

Drew: That’s a film, it’s a small cult classic that I produced with my partner Nan. We discovered this script and no one wanted to make this film and thanks to my partner Nan it got made and there is the movie.

Tom: I’m glad it did because it was probably the most consequential film for me that I ever watched as a kid.

Drew: May I ask how so?

Tom: My dad and I split when I was young and I used to go to his on the weekend so we’d see each other once a month and we’d bond watching films and the first film I remember him showing me was ‘Donnie Darko’ on VHS and I sat cross legged on the floor watching ‘Donnie Darko’ and got to the end and put it on again because I loved it so much and it’s probably the film that made me want to be an actor.

 

Tom on Spending All His Money From His First Acting Gig on Ice Cream

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Drew: By the way, I heard that with the money that you made playing feral child number 5, after all that hard work for 3 months, what did you buy yourself?

Tom: So, I was, you know, they used to give you a per diems, and as a, like, you know, 12, 13 year old, it felt like all the money in the world, and on the way home from a day of filming as feral child number 5, my, you know, my real claim to fame, I asked the driver to stop at a gas station on the way home and I bought as much Ben and Jerry's as I could possibly carry cause my mum had never let me have Ben and Jerry's before, and so, you know, she was trying to make us healthy. So anyway, I got home to the hotel and I put all this Ben and Jerry's, I was like 12, put all this Ben and Jerry's in what I thought was the freezer. And it was a fridge and so the next morning I woke up and I went to look at my Ben and Jerry's, which was like, you know, the whole of my hard work and it had all melted into the fridge, like it was a pool of Ben and Jerry's. So, so yeah, I learned my lesson.

Drew: OK, we have something for you, Anna. We're gonna heal this right now. We didn't know your favorite flavor, so we got a little bit of a poo poo platter for you.

Tom: Oh, a what.

Drew: A little bit of everything.

 

Tom on Filming “The Gilded Age” & Rumors of Him Doing “A Farewell to Arms"

https://app.cimediacloud.com/r/B6FIPKWG6m9O

Drew: What was it like doing that show. I’m obsessed I’ve seen every episode.

Tom: It was the most fun. The whole crew and whole cast were so gracious. I had the most fun. I’d hoped they’d bring me back but I got busy.

Drew: And then also are you maybe gonna do a project of ‘A Farewell to Arms?’

Tom: I’m supposed to be. It’s been a long time in the making but yeah.

Drew: That’s one of my favorite books in the world.

Tom: Me too I read it in the first year of covid and fell in love with it. Michael Winterbottom is an amazing British director and he’s developed it and I hope we get to make it at some point.