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Barrymore, 44, comes from a long line of actors, starting with her great-grandparents. She said her daughter may want to join the family business.

\"I always have Turner Classic Movies on in the background of the kitchen and my grandfather came on and I was like, 'Olive, there he is, there's your great-grandfather!'\" Barrymore said. \"I talk about John, Lionel, Ethel and she's like 'Everybody in our family is an actor.' I just said, 'But you get to do whatever you want to do' and she goes, 'I want to be an actress.' I said, 'OK, cool.' She goes, 'But I also need to be a policewoman.'\"

\"I was like, 'I love you so much, that's wonderful.'\"

Now, Barrymore is gearing up for her third season of \"Santa Clarita Diet,\" in which her character is a wife-turned-zombie that's in married to a still-human husband.

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Barrymore said the opportunity to do the show came at the perfect time while she was trying to navigate her life after going through a divorce.

\"I had stopped acting for a while to raise [my kids] and there comes those moments where you're like, 'Who am I?'\" Barrymore said. \"This show came along and I saw this opportunity in the first episode for this woman to find her empowerment again and she had lived this life where she was sort of stuck in a rut and I just thought, 'I'm 20 pounds overweight. My life is totally not where I thought it would be. I want to put all of this into this character.'\"

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Barrymore said she's happy to work on a show that has an element of fun.

\"I also think in society today, we're so far out there and it's so crazy, this world, that if you don't have a show with a little spine and a little grit, it almost feels like 'Leave It to Beaver ' -- it doesn't work anymore,\" she said.

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\"I love humanity and I love humor,\" Barrymore added. \"To me, laughter is my highest priority even when it comes to my children -- keeping them safe and happy, but laughing with them.\"

Season 3 of \"Santa Clarita Diet\" is streaming now on Netflix.

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