E.T.’s Dee Wallace Keeps Her Heart Open

The actress reflects on the 40-year-anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s classic film

Image courtesy B. Harlan Boll

When she first read the screenplay with the working title “A Boy’s Life” in 1981, Dee Wallace knew it was special. “Melissa Mathison’s script was magical. It had heart and truth,” the 72-year-old still-working actress tells me during a recent telephone…