Even 20 years on, Drew Barrymore is nonetheless feeling the consequences of plummeting into Fenway Park’s outfield whereas capturing her and Jimmy Fallon’s baseball-themed rom-com, Fever Pitch.

The movie, celebrating its twentieth anniversary, relies on Nick Hornby’s 1992 novel of the identical identify and particulars the sophisticated relationship between cool government Lindsey (Barrymore) and her Crimson Sox-obsessed boyfriend, Ben (Fallon). When Ben finally agrees to promote his season tickets to show to Lindsey that he’s critical about their future, she purchases a ticket to the Yankees-Crimson Sox playoff recreation that he’s attending and sprints barefoot throughout the grass within the last inning to be able to stop him from making the sale.

Whereas the second could have regarded effortlessly romantic onscreen, it definitely didn’t really feel that method — not less than, not for Barrymore. “There's a scene the place I’m going on the Inexperienced Monster, the wall, and I fall and after I did that, I fell actually badly on my again,” she tells Leisure Weekly. “And so that you'll see me fall and I begin wincing and screaming — that was all actual. After which I needed to hold operating anyway, and I nonetheless have a nasty again. I’m like, ‘Did it occur on Fever Pitch?’”

The 50-year-old actress, who additionally serves as a producer on the movie, is a agency believer that Ben and Lindsey haven’t struck out but and are nonetheless collectively to at the present time.

“I feel so, completely. And going to the video games and residing their life,” she says. “Hopefully, the movie is a metaphor for {couples} who’ve to just accept these issues that each of them have once they enter the connection, and the way they determine it out collectively. You realize, nobody's coming in with no baggage!”

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Ben and Lindsey, specifically, are coming into their relationship with their very personal distinctive baggage — Lindsey together with her dedication to her profession, and Ben together with his diehard devotion to the Crimson Sox. His unwavering loyalty causes Lindsey pause all through the movie, particularly when she expresses her worry that enormous life occasions like giving beginning could also be overshadowed by the staff’s schedule.

“Typically your baggage may be like, ‘Okay, I don't need to worry you received't be there after I'm giving beginning, since you obtained to go to a recreation. So be there after I'm giving beginning, however then we'll go to the sport with our child, and this can be a giant a part of our life-style,’” Barrymore says. “And I simply thought it was so actual, the factor that somebody is obsessive about, and lives their life by… how are you going to navigate that as a pair?”

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It additionally helps that Barrymore and Fallon additionally occurred to have “the most effective time making” the Farrelly brothers-directed movie, too.

“I beloved watching the Farrelly brothers — who had been my favourite administrators, like Kingpin and Dumb and Dumber, they're nonetheless my favourite films — be delicate and make a film that was very humorous, however I believed very mild and emotional,” she says. “I used to be so comfortable to see that aspect of them as a result of they’re these guys and I used to be like, ‘Wow, the Farrelly brothers with coronary heart, man. That is superior.’”

Barrymore’s favourite reminiscence from her time on set, nevertheless, was getting a entrance row seat to the real-life romance that unfolded between Fallon and her Flower Movies co-founder, Nancy Juvonen. Fallon and the producer started relationship, tied the knot in 2007, and now share two kids.

“The one that modified my life in probably the most dramatic method, I obtained to one way or the other be in one thing that helped her discover happiness,” Barrymore provides of Juvonen. “She's simply my favourite person who I simply hold pondering, ‘Thank God they discovered one another. I'm so glad I had something to do with that.’”

She continues, “It’s the most effective while you need folks you like to be comfortable, and also you get to witness it beginning. And so Fever Pitch, to me, is the promise that good issues occur to good folks.”

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