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To help his young child actors, Steven Spielberg decided to shoot the movie in roughly chronological order. He explained that the continuity would help the kids know "emotionally where they had been the day before." He said, "Every day was a surprise -- until, finally, when E.T. began to die [the three child actors] really believed this was happening to their lives." The final, emotional farewell scene is as genuine as it looks.
To help his young child actors, Steven Spielberg decided to shoot the movie in roughly chronological order. He explained that the continuity would help the kids know "emotionally where they had been the day before." He said, "Every day was a surprise -- until, finally, when E.T. began to die [the three child actors] really believed this was happening to their lives." The final, emotional farewell scene is as genuine as it looks.