People should not eat anything while watching Drew Barrymore's upcoming horror comedy web television drama "Santa Clarita Diet" on Netflix. The show is quite odd and has some horror and stomach-turning gory scenes.
Barrymore credits her current slim figure to her new series as she dropped weight from 144 pounds to 124 pounds while filming, she told Us Weekly in November 2016. She plays Sheila Hammond, a loving housewife to husband Joel Hammond, played by Timothy Olyphant. The married couple live as real estate agents in Santa Clarita, California.
"Santa Clarita Diet" does not tell typical couple stories. There is a twist and that is when Sheila becomes an undead creature who craves for human flesh. She and her husband would go and hunt people to kill and their ideal target is the "young, single Hitler."
In one scene, Sheila was hungry and there was nothing to devour. She managed to bargain a human foot from a mortician and eats it like one does with a turkey leg. She is chewing a thin piece of the skin until it eventually peels off.
In a recent interview, Barrymore and her co-star Olyphant talked about her losing 20 pounds in real life. It is timely with her new show on Netflix and she still associates it with her role as human-eating Sheila.
"It came sort of at a moment in my life where I had sort of let myself go due to personal circumstances, and I thought, 'I could come alive with Sheila,'" Barrymore told Today. "It was a really great goal line for me, because as much as the weight loss everything's very subtle, it's attitudinal, it's empowerment, it's confidence."
Speaking about dieting and Sheila, Barrymore jokingly said that eating human flesh is similar to eating simple protein daily, just like the Atkins diet. Drew and Olyphant said their Netflix series which appears gory is actually optimistic and humorous.
On a serious note, the 41-year-old mother of two revealed she followed Kimberly Snyder's diet plan, but added some fish and chicken for protein. She admitted she cried dreaming about pizza, and that she still does.
Watch the "Santa Clarita Diet" trailer below: