Sean Whalen and Drew Barrymore remember their kindness to each other.
In late 2025, Whalen gushed about his experience playing Barrymore’s Josie Gellar’s assistant in the 1999 film. Never kissed. He praised the actress for being thoughtful during her first production.
The Drew Barrymore Show‘s Drew’s News segment panelist Ross Matthews told Barrymore about her co-star’s kind words and the Fifty first dates star showered him with praise in return.
“Sean, he was a really great working actor and he was pretty much everywhere at that time. He was a really wonderful person to be able to work with, and then he was like a great muse to my partner Nan [Nancy Juvonen] and I, and we asked him to do Charlie’s Angels as well,” she said.
“He’s just someone I enjoyed being around. I think he’s very funny and talented and I’m so glad he remembers that,” she added.
Just as the actress said that, Whalen called the show to chat with her.
“I heard you said such nice things and that means so much to me because I always felt like we were in it together,” she told him. “We were just kids, you, me and Nan, trying to make fun, good movies together.”
The actor said he was “blown away” by the way she advocated for him on the set of Never Been Kissed.
“I was just a young, goofy kid and you had no reason to do that,” he added.
“I was a young, crazy kid, too! And you know, it all felt like such high stakes, those first opportunities where you have to prove yourself. And if it doesn’t go in the right direction, honestly, in our line of work and in this industry, you probably don’t get a second chance to do it,” Drew Barrymore responded.
