Drew Barrymore tends to lie down on the floor when handsome actors come on The Drew Barrymore Show — but today was the first time she did so while pretending to be a sausage.

On this morning’s episode of the hit daytime talk show, actor Joe Alwyn opened up about some of the odd acting exercises he participated in while attending drama school.

“I spent an abnormal portion of my life pretending to be an animal,” he said, reflecting on the term he spent doing “animal studies.”

According to Alwyn, he and his classmates would go to the London Zoo to study the animals they were assigned.

“People would be walking around, like, real members of the public, watching these crazy 21-year-olds rolling around on the floor roaring or grunting,” he recalled. “I was just a sleeping tiger at that point. I was hiding under a bush.”

However, the strangest thing he ever had to play was a sausage.

“The sausage came into play in a group workshop,” he said. “We were walking around the room and pretending to be a color or something strange like that and then they said, ‘And now you’re a sausage.’ You kind of think, ‘Alright.’ You go with it, you’re not quite sure what that means. And then you’re a sausage in a pan and everyone sort of starts wiggling and vibrating.”

That’s when Barrymore stood up out of her chair and laid down on the floor — much like she did when George Clooney pretended to be her therapist during an October 2022 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.

“Yeah, I’m definitely picturing — I’m like, if I was a sausage I guess I would be like this,” she said while lying down on the floor.

“And then in the pan it’s, ‘Ow, ow!’” Barrymore added as she began to writhe her body.

Alwyn joked that it was the “role of a lifetime,” while Barrymore playfully told him, “I’ve always wanted to play a sausage.”

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