Since E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made, I’d think just about every question about it would have already been answered by Steven Spielberg. But I was clearly wrong about one of the most iconic '80s movies! Someone just asked the filmmaker something about the alien I've wondered about, and I’m so happy they did.
The filmmaker has been promoting his new alien project, Disclosure Day, which recently came out on the 2026 movie schedule, and, of course, many of his classic films are coming up in interviews. In a chat with The New York Times, here’s what happened when Spielberg was asked bluntly if the beloved alien ET was “slimy or dry”:
