Drew Barrymore Calls Ex Luke Wilson on Her Talk Show to ‘Send Love’

Drew Barrymore is playing phone tag with ex-boyfriend Luke Wilson — live on the air!

As The Drew Barrymore Show host, 50, welcomed filmmaker Vince Gilligan on Tuesday, Nov. 4, to reminisce about their movie Home Fries, they tried calling Wilson, Barrymore’s costar in the 1998 romantic comedy. The call went to voicemail, so the actress left a sentimental message.

“We were just talking about you and we’re sending you love, and can you believe Home Fries was 27 years ago now?” Barrymore told Wilson, 54, in the voicemail as her live studio audience looked on. “This is not going the way I planned,” she quipped.

She added, “I know this is just a voicemail, but I love you, I’m sending you love, and I’m here with Vince on the show and we’re thinking about you.”

“Great saying hi to you, Luke,” Gilligan chimed in.

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Luckily, Wilson returned the call after a commercial break, greeting the pair and claiming he had been doing chores. “It’s just so incredible to see what you went on and did after Home Fries,” the actor told Gilligan, 58, per Entertainment Weekly. 

“Just to have done it all as such a great writer,” said Wilson, shouting out Gilligan’s hits Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. “That’s the first way we all met you is through your writing … It’s unbelievable, what you did.”

“Oh, God bless you, man, Jesus,” Gilligan replied. “I’m blushing here!”

Home Fries was one of the first movies Wilson acted in and Gilligan wrote. The Legally Blonde star recalled that it was filmed in his native Texas, which he thought was a common occurrence for Hollywood movies at the time.

Wilson also recalled that he and costar Jake Busey, after “a couple beers,” shone a flashlight at a train, which turned out to be a federal offense. “We were just acting like we were directing traffic, but with a locomotive, which we just thought was a great idea.” 

“That happens,” said Barrymore, who dated Wilson from around 1996 to 1998. “Remember I got arrested for public urination with you?”

The Drew Barrymore Show airs weekdays on CBS. Gilligan is the creator of Apple TV drama Pluribus, premiering Friday, Nov. 7.