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She first thing that strikes you about Drew Barrymore is how – there’s no other word for it – normal she now seems, for a woman who inherited both a famous name and a tragic legacy from her legendary acting family. Her scandal-filled childhood was followed by a deeply troubled adolescence that included drug and alcohol addiction, a suicide attempt and several spells in rehab. But she turned her life around and during the past decade has matured into a multi-talented actress, producer and, more recently, director, who has shaken off the shadow of her family name to establish herself as a major force in her own right in Hollywood. “Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act,” she says. “It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.” We have met in Beverly Hills to talk about her latest film, Going the Distance, yet another romcom, a genre in which she specialises. But this one is not really for the young girls who have been her faithful core audience: it’s the most raunchy, edgy and daring of the films she has made so far. She and Justin Long, her real-life on-again, off-again boyfriend, play a couple who meet in New York, enjoy a summer fling, then try to keep the romance burning when she returns home to San Francisco. “It was so great to be able to talk the way I do in real life with my friends,” she says. “I think a film about real love and life and what we go through in relationships and with our friends would be impossible to do authentically if it didn’t have sex and [bad] language, because it wouldn’t be realistic.” The Long factor just adds to the realism. They met three years ago when they were both cast in He’s Just Not Into You and dated for a year before splitting up and then reuniting early last year. Neither will say if they are still together. “I thought it would be a unique experience to go to work with someone I did have a history with and I have had emotional times with and who genuinely makes me laugh and who I’m genuinely attracted to,” she says. “I knew the chemistry between us would be honest, so we would be able to bring a truth to the fact that relationships can be very difficult, and I thought that would be a real benefit.”
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She talks confidently, with the air of someone who knows exactly what she wants to say and it is easy to imagine her as both producer and director, taking complete command of a movie set. Now 35, Drew Barrymore comes from a five-generation strong acting dynasty that included her grandfather, Shakespearean actor John Barrymore, an alcoholic who died at 60 of cirrhosis of the liver; silent film star grandmother Dolores Costello; great-uncle and Oscar winner Lionel Barrymore; and Oscar-winning great-aunt Ethel, who once turned down a marriage proposal from Winston Churchill. Drew’s father, John Barrymore Jr, split from her mother, model Jaid, soon after Drew was born, and died in 2004 after years of homelessness and drug addiction. She has bizarre memories of him. “I liked when my dad would walk around in bare feet, stoned, and talk about how the blades of grass felt on his feet, and how he could tell which ones were hurting and didn’t want to be stepped on, and I thought, ‘Wow that’s my dad; he’s really trippy and cool,’?” she recalls. She pauses and then laughs: “Not a very wholesome movie moment, but that’s what my dad was.”
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It was her family connections that won Barrymore her first big break when her godfather, Steven Spielberg, cast her as the dimpled, precocious seven-year-old in E.T. But things turned sour when her mother, an inveterate partygoer, began taking her on a round of all-night parties. By the time Drew was 12 she was drinking alcohol and using cocaine; at 13 she was in rehab; and at 15 the little girl who had shown so much promise was working in a Hollywood coffee shop. There were two more trips to rehab before she moved in with musician David Crosby, himself a survivor of drug and alcohol abuse, and his wife, who helped her straighten her life out. She applied in court to become legally emancipated from her parents. As she matured, her professional life has soared. She has appeared in some 50 movies and her production company, Flower Films, has produced a dozen, including the two Charlie’s Angels adventures, and a string of successful romcoms. She was executive producer on the cult classic Donnie Darko and recently made her directing debut with the well-received roller-derby movie Whip It!, in which she starred alongside Ellen Page.
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“I feel really excited about the last few years of my life,” she says. “I pride myself on them and I didn’t know I had that much discipline. I’ve worked really hard and got to do things I’ve always wanted to do and now I feel things are going really well. I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.” t is true that her personal life has been complicated. Her two marriages, to Welsh-born bar owner Jeremy Thomas in March 1994 and comedian Tom Green in July 2001, lasted less than six months combined, and her boyfriends have included actors Val Kilmer and Luke Wilson, as well as the Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Looking back on her topsy-turvy past, she is philosophical. “You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you,” she says. “You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. “The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.”
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Drew Barrymore has reportedly admitted that she’s lost count of the number of men that she’s been hurt by during her life. The actress revealed that her childhood has made it difficult for her to find a loving relationship. She told The Mirror: “God, I don’t know the number and I don’t know the count. But I keep telling myself I should never go into love the next time remembering that I’ve been hurt before.
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“I’ve spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. And now I’ve stopped believing in happy endings and I’ve started believing in good days. “I didn’t have the kind of childhood or family life that would have given me any perspective on what a happy home or relationship would feel like. So I haven’t had as much success in my relationships as I would have liked.” Barrymore added that she has stopped blaming her problems on her upbringing and now takes responsibility for the things that happen in her life. She continued: “You can’t live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn’t do for you. You’re dealt the cards that you’re dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. “There were several low points in my life and they all helped make up my character so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed. It helped me grow and change and become bbetter and stronger. “I feel excited about the last few years of my life. I pride myself on them and I didn’t know I had that much discipline.”
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‘I’m happy to say that, at 35 years old, I feel I know less than ever,’ she says with a smile. ‘But in a liberating way. I’m trying to figure out how to make relationships work. The only thing I know is that there aren’t any rules. There should be no infrastructure on how a couple is supposed to work. Life isn’t like that.’ She calls herself an old-fashioned romantic, exasperated by today’s texting, Tweeting, Facebooking culture. She wants to be swept off her feet; she wants to receive handwritten letters and hand-made gifts, to hear someone’s voice. ‘The fact that I’m begging for a phone call is pathetic in this age of technology,’ she admits. ‘Plans are made by text – I can’t stand it. My ex, Fabrizio [Moretti, drummer with The Strokes], and I used to always make each other things for Valentine’s Day. I loved that. I know it was something we looked forward to and was really cool. I encourage people to make things for each other – it’s so beautiful.’
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She says she collects old typewriters, loves the written word. She has a computer, but fears how technology is changing the way we interact with each other. ‘I just don’t like this compulsive, instantaneous, over- information, lack-of-privacy, weirdo aspect of the world,’ she says. ‘If you meet someone, they already know everything. What about showing up on the date and saying, “What do you do for a living? Who are your friends?” Yes, you can avoid maybe a serial killer, but who fucking knows? I am a romantic and it scares me…’ I ask Barrymore what she actually wants from a relationship and, without a beat, she says, ‘definitely laughter’. I ask her what love is and she pauses, closes her eyes and grasps for the ungraspable.
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‘It smells good – like somebody’s skin,’ she says eventually. ‘It’s amazing to me that, when you fall in love with someone, you just start to love the way they smell. If I have to go away from someone, I say, “Wear this T-shirt for five days in a row, then I’m going to take it with me.”’
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She knows what love should sound like, what it should feel like, clearly what it should smell like, but she’s still grasping for what it actually is. ‘I’m not an aficionado on the subject right now,’ she admits. ‘Some of the things I thought were a certain way have revealed themselves to be quite different, so I feel very awake and very open-hearted and open-minded. I’d like to approach certain things differently. I feel like I’m learning a lot right now. I’m not the teacher, I’m the student – I want to try new things.’
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Actress Drew Barrymore is on the August cover of Nylon–and I the accompanying interview, the actress opens up about her dislike of technology, being true to herself, and simulating phone sex in her new movie, ‘Going the Distance.’ “You know, phone sex going awry is just a funny concept to me and I thought, This is going to be one of those scenes where we have to go balls out, and if it doesn’t work, it’s going to be editing room floor crap,” Barrymore tells the magazine about shooting the phone sex scene. Like her BFF Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore isn’t afraid of aging, but she’s also not afraid of going under the knife. “I don’t want to be vain or fearful, and I don’t think I’ll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will,” asserts the 35-year-old actress in the August issue of Elle. “From my perspective, there’s no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you’re lucky! The alternative is death.”
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She’s also not scared of being alone. Drew, who stars in the upcoming comedy “Going the Distance” with her ex Justin Long, is currently single, but has no qualms about it. “If you’re 35 and single and it’s a choice, it feels fine. So I didn’t settle with the wrong person yet. Big deal!” (Um, let’s not forget she did settle twice before — she was married to Welsh bar owner Jeremy Thomas for a little over a month in 1994, and comedian Tom Green for a little over a year in 2001. Live and learn!) Kicking off her career at the age of 7 in “E.T.,” Barrymore has consistently been working since 1982, but somewhere along the line she got a reputation as a ditzy blonde. While she may be bubbly, could a ditz have achieved as much success as Barrymore — who owns her own production company Flower Films and won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Edith Bouvier Beale in HBO’s “Grey Gardens” — has?
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The media’s misconception of happy-go-lucky Drew puzzles her as well. “I make movies,” she says. “I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don’t accomplish anything. That’s not me at all.” Of course, all that ambition can tire a person out. “For three years straight, I’ve been burning the candle at both ends, and as of last December, I just didn’t have anything left,” she reveals. “I’ve been so aggressive about living life to the fullest and being plugged into everything, but now I’ve ripped the plug out of the wall and put it on the floor for a while. I’m thinking about the same things as when I was 15, about spirituality and who I am, who I want to be. It’s cocoon, pupa, larva, and f—, I’m reborn!”
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Actress Kristen Bell is seeking to join the cast of the upcoming Drew Barrymore film “Everybody Loves Whales.” The film is being produced by Universal and the current name is a working title. The film is based upon the nonfiction novel “Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event” which was written by Tom Rose.
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The film follows the true story of a small-town reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who team up to try and save three gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. Set in the 1988 during the Cold War, the pair enlists the help of both the world’s superpowers to help them free the trapped whales. Barrymore and John Krasinski, who developed the project together, will play the role of the small-town reporter and Greenpeace volunteer respectively. Bell will play the role of a Los Angeles news reporter who thinks her best asset is her looks.
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Barrymore, the star and producer of the two “Charlie’s Angels” features, is one of the producers on a TV reboot of the Aaron Spelling-created franchise.Miles Millar and Al Gough, the brains behind “Smallville”, are writing the series, according to THR. ABC TV have been looking at bringing “Charlie’s Angels” back for quite some time. In,1988 they were developing “Angels ’88″ with Tea Leoni onboard to play one of the main roles. It never happened. Last year, the studio hired “Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles”‘ Josh Friedman to write the kick-off point for a new series. It never got to pilot.
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Another day, another Wizard of Oz reimagining. Drew Barrymore looks set to become the latest member of the Hollywood glitterati to travel down the yellow brick road after signing on to direct Surrender Dorothy, pitched as a loose sequel to the 1939 musical. Barrymore, who recently made her debut as a feature film-maker with the well-received rollerderby movie Whip It, was originally tipped to star in the project when it was first proposed back in 2002. She would have played the great-great-granddaughter of Dorothy, a young woman who has to learn how to use the power of those famed ruby red slippers to keep the Wicked Witch of the West from taking control of the kingdoms of Earth and Oz.
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There’s no word on whether Barrymore will still be taking the lead role, though at 35 she might be considered a little old for the part. The project has been resurrected due to the current proliferation of movies based on much-loved children’s stories, following the enormous box-office success of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. At least five films based on the Wizard of Oz have been reported in recent weeks. Disney, which made Alice in Wonderland, is developing Oz the Great and Powerful, an origins tale revealing how L Frank Baum’s wonderful wizard ended up at the Emerald City (and possibly featuring Sam Mendes directing Robert Downey Jr as the wizard). There are also two CGI versions, as well as another based on a comic-book series, and finally the bizarre-looking The Witches of Oz, featuring Lord of the Rings’ Sean Astin, Christopher Lloyd (as the wizard) and Alien’s Lance Henriksen.
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Though all 14 of Baum’s Oz books are now out of copyright, and therefore freely available for anyone to plunder, it seems unlikely that all of the above will make it into cinemas: often in these cases, one or more of the films will fall at the wayside at the development stage. If not, there are going to be more wizards in multiplexes over the next few years than at a Harry Potter convention. The Wizard of Oz story has been adapted for the big screen on many occasions, with the most famous version being the 1939 musical starring Judy Garland. Disney itself brought Return to Oz, based on two of Baum’s sequels, to cinemas in 1985.
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Drew Barrymore has a long record of championing LGBT equality. Professionally and personally, the actress has embraced the gay and lesbien community both on and offscreen. In her film “Boys on the Side,” directed by Don Roos, the central themes were lesbianism and AIDS. “That film was 15 years ago, and it was not common for a high-profile actress to be in a wide-release movie about lesbians,” says Jarrett Barrios. “To be part of that, particularly on the real upswing of her early career, says something about Barrymore’s commitment and how fearless she is in her support of the gay and lesbian community.”
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In 2009, Barrymore essayed the role of a straight reporter at an LGBT newspaper in the film “He’s Just Not That Into You,” and in “Everybody’s Fine” she played the lesbian daughter of widower Robert De Niro. Barrymore is this year’s recipient of the Vanguard Award, which is given to people who have increased the visibility of the LGBT community. The actress says it is no big deal.
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“I was born, bred and raised amongst diversity,” Barrymore said. “It has defined me and made me the person I am today.” When California’s Prop. 8 came up for a vote in 2008, Barrymore took it personally as she joined the thousands of protesters in the streets of West Hollywood and Silverlake. “I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay,” Barrymore said. “No one has the right to tell anyone what makes a family … this is something that means everything to me.”
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They’ve been on/off for quite some time, but Drew Barrymore is reportedly once again a single woman after Justin Long ended things between them. The “Accepted” stud is said to have grown tired of Drew’s hard partying ways and finally said enough is enough. An insider told press, “The split was Justin’s decision and he did it with a heavy heart. The bottom line is Justin was tired of having his heart broken by Drew and her sometimes strange behavior. He said the relationship was slowly killing both of them. Justin finally had enough of Drew’s crazy approach to life.” “He’s just a lot more normal and laid back than she is. They were torturing each other. Their different personalities screwed things up. This is a case of both hearts being shattered at the same time.”
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Serious celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore just love emo, indie musician Rufus Wainwright! Drew and ScarJo know the rules for going to hipster concerts, too: 1) You must wear your hair messy 2) People take you more seriously when you wear glasses and 3) Whatever you do, don’t smile! The ladies, along with Lucy Liu and Penn Badgley, went to Rose Bar Sessions at Gramercy Park Hotel in NYC last night, Mar. 16. where Rufus Wainwright played songs off his super sad album All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu, which comes out Apr. 20. We know the songs are all super depressing, but these two look like they’re about to burst into tears!
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A casually dressed Drew Barrymore was spotted picking up desserts and coffee yesterday at popular LA lunch spot Joan’s on Third with rumored new boyfriend Will Kopelman [His father used to be the CEO of Chanel]. Drew turns 36 today and she got a head start on celebrating with a day date alongside Will, who works as an art consultant. She’s been single since ending her on-again, off-again relationship with He’s Just Not That Into You and Going the Distance costar Justin Long last year, but now she’s ready to move on.
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What better way to celebrate the knockout (and Oscar-nominated) film The Fighter than with a star-studded party? Drew Barrymore was on-hand to catch up with friends Eva Mendes and Hilary Swank at a Dewar’s Signature-hosted bash at the Brentwood, Calif., home of Fighter producer David Hoberman. Dressed in a sequined skirt, top and blazer, Barrymore was a bundle of energy as she made her way through the party with a male friend. She immediately ran into Terrence Howard, whom she kissed on the cheek. Apart from all the conversation, there was food – plenty of it – catered by Animal, an L.A. hotspot. Guests enjoyed passed appetizers, including mini-lobster rolls, scallops with warm truffle vinaigrette and blistered tomatoes, lamb meatballs with mint and tomato, and much more.
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There were cocktails (see below for a recipe), and plenty of sweets for dessert, including a sticky toffee pudding cake and a mini-bacon chocolate crunch bar. Equally sweet: the couples who mingled at the bash. Swank and her agent beau John Campisi had their arms wrapped around each other all night. Swank also greeted Barrymore with a big hug and raved about the food. And Sean Penn, ever the gentleman, shared his jacket with Mendes, with whom he was chatting in the backyard, after she got a bit chilly.
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ABC has reportedly started production on a pilot for an upcoming “Charlie’s Angels” revival. According to a new report from Deadline, the show will be penned by “Smallville” writing duo Al Gough and Miles Millar. Gough and Millar will serve as executive producers for the pilot as well, along with help from Drew Barrymore, who appeared in the recent “Charlie’s Angels” film. Rumor has it the series could begin filming in Miami next year.
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The project has gone through a number of ups and down since its first mention about a year ago. “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” writer Josh Friedman was initially brought in to write a script for the pilot but was later replaced at the network’s request. The project suffered another setback when ABC president Steve McPherson stepped down. McPherson had reportedly fast-tracked the project, which then went under review by new president Paul Lee.
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Drew Barrymore is great on a first date. She has the small talk down pat. “You do a speed round of what’s your favorite movie and what are your favorite CDs? ” says the single Barrymore who doesn’t mind doing a little role-playing. Let’s say this was an Italian restaurant instead of her suite at the Four Seasons. The question is posed over some candlelight and sparkling water:
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“OK, I love this because I can easily say that the movies are Annie Hall, Lost in America and Sullivan’s Travels,” rattles off Barrymore who wears blue jeans and a long, plaid shirt. Her wavy half dark, half blonde hair cascades down her back. In person, she is reed thin, but that slightly scratchy voice and warm laugh that you’ve heard for years reduces her to the nation’s long-lost friend. “Now, for the music, I’m on it,” she says. “Wait, spank me. I can’t think of anything. Radiohead comes to mind. Shoot, I’m such a music nut, too!”
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It’s fine if she doesn’t have all the answers in her new film Going the Distance where Barrymore plays a New York-based aspiring newspaper writer who has a serious boyfriend (Justin Long), a young music exec. Their lives are thrown into a spin when she gets a dream job offer in San Francisco and they must embark on a long distance relationship – complete with long waits at airports and phone sex! You do a lot of kissing in this film including with Justin Long. Is it tough to kiss on screen? It’s always hard to do movie love scenes. You’re lucky if you get a good kisser. In some kissing scenes, your lips meet and you think, “Whoooeeee, thank God!” The worst is if you kiss someone who is not a good kisser. Then it’s up to you as the woman to work your butt off. Do you know what it’s like to kiss someone in a scene who can’t kiss? Suddenly, you’re really working on your own game. You’re doubting yourself. You’re asking yourself, “Is it me?”
