By Anna Mae Areja
Manila - ONE of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Drew Barrymore, was sunny, smiley, and comfy on her arrival in Manila on Sunday morning.
The “Charlie’s Angels” star posted a photo on her Instagram account in a “grou-fie” with a happy bunch of Ninoy Aquino International Airport Immigration personnel.
Sweet and witty she captioned it, “We have arrived. Safe, as you can see! So many guards I feel like an alterna grunge princess.”
In a post early Sunday, the 44-year-old actress excitedly shared she was off to visit the Philippines for the press tour of her original Netflix series, “Santa Clarita Diet.”
She was wearing a white shirt, pink pants and an oversized yellow cashmere cover up.
“Oh my gosh. So excited. Going to Manila in my pajamas and channeling old fashion travel.”
The last time Barrymore, who first caught the hearts of moviegoers as a child star in the Steven Spielberg classic “ET”, visited the country was in September 2016. She was doing research on the cosmetic market for her makeup brand Flower Beauty.
The official synopsis of the show reads: “In “Santa Clarita Diet,” Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction...but in a good way.
“Picking up right where it left off, Season 2 of 'Santa Clarita Diet' finds the Hammonds trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state -- even though she’s desperately working to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster.
Unfortunately, while the family has become markedly better at murder, the number of missing people in Santa Clarita is starting to pile up and it’s no longer going unnoticed."
This time around, Barrymore has a full itinerary in Manila, which includes the red carpet premiere of the second season of Santa Clarita Diet, together with co-star Timothy Olyphant, on Monday night at the SM Megamall.
