2010 has been pretty good to Drew Barrymore thus far. The birthday girl (yesterday was the big 35) has a major ad campaign as one of the faces of Cover Girl and she won both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens. She also rekindled her relationship with actor Justin Long and just recently found out she would be awarded the Vanguard Award by GLAAD at an upcoming ceremony.
The Vanguard Award goes to “media professionals who have increased the visibility and understanding of the LGBT community.” GLAAD notes that Drew has done so by starring in Boys on the Side, from openly gay filmmaker Don Roos, producing He’s Just Not That Into You “in which she played a straight reporter at a LGBT newspaper who desperately seeks dating advice from her gay best friends” and playing the lesbian daughter of Robert de Niro in 2009’s Everybody’s Fine.
Said Barrymore:
I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has the right to tell anyone what makes a family…this is something that means everything to me. Read the rest of this entry »
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Drew Barrymore isn’t your average girly girl. For last year’s roller-derby flick (and her directorial debut) Whip It, she donned roller skates, pink highlights and tattoos, and though her tough-girl persona was all for the sake of the movie (out now on DVD and Blu-ray), it’s not a far cry from the 34-year-old actress’s real-life personality. “I love boys and I am very boyish myself,” Barrymore — who is dating Justin Long, 31, her costar in 2009’s He’s Just Not That Into You and the upcoming Going the Distance — tells iVillage. “I kind of really love men and their whole perspective and I’m pretty androgynous.” iVillage spoke with the actress about complicated mother-daughter relationships, bonding with her Whip It costars and why Valentine’s Day is, well, “weird.”
Why was it so important for you to show strong female characters in Whip It?
I do fundamentally believe that you can be true to who you want to be in this world and find a great group of friends, and it is so much more fun to do it alongside a group of people who keep you honest and inspire you to do better and who you can laugh with. And that’s what I’ve done with my own life, so that theme is so true to me. I also know what it’s like to be a young girl with a mother and to try to navigate that relationship. Though my own life was quite different than it is in the movie, there were similar themes and emotions I could really make personal. I love to rock out with my friends and have a good time. I like laughing and comedy and I like women who are physically capable, because I’m not really in real life: I just pretend at work sometimes that I am and it’s so fun. I have such admiration for women like that so I celebrate people who are doing it on their own terms and empowering themselves and empowering each other and having a good time and inspiring each other along the way. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hollwyood star Drew Barrymore is making plans to bring the hit TV series Charlie’s Angeles back to the small screen.
According to reports, the 34-year-old actress has produced and starred in two film adaptations of the 1970s show and now she’s breathing new life into the franchise, which launched Farrah Fawcett’s career, by reviving it for TV.
The actress is currently looking for a new trio of sexy crime fighters and insists that they must be, “incredibly capable, but not take themselves too seriously. That’s a tough combination to find.”
Meanwhile filmmaker Joseph McGinty Nichol, better known as McG, who directed Barrymore in her Angels films, will serve as consultant on the project and is aiming to diversify the team of secret agents.
“This is a more progressive, 2010 take on the idea. We want to be even more progressive in terms of racial background,” McG said.
The filmmaker has named R&B singer Rihanna as his dream Angel.
Source: NDTV
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Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has hit out at actress Drew Barrymore in his new book, insisting her sober public image is fake. The Charlie’s Angels actress struggled with drink and drugs as a child star, but kicked her addictions with a stint in rehab in the early 1990s. Earlier this year (09) she insisted she doesn’t claim to be sober, but she’s found a “balance” that works.
However, in his new book ‘True Bloggywood Stories: The Glamorous Life of Beating, Cheating and Overdosing’, Hilton has branded her a “f**ked up mess,” reports the Daily Star. He admits he wasn’t planning to mention Barrymore until an incident at a concert in Los Angeles changed his mind. Read the rest of this entry »
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At 34, most people in show business are just beginning to make their mark and prove their staying power. For Drew Barrymore, 34 means her third decade in the business. Although she did her first minor TV appearances at 3 and 5, and her first film was Ken Russell’s whacked out Altered States in 1980, Barrymore first captured moviegoers at the tender age of 7 when she melted hearts with her tear-inducing performance in Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Flash forward 27 years, and you’ll find an accomplished actress, producer and now director.
For her directorial debut, Whip It, Barrymore enlisted an all-star cast to flesh out her longtime dream of stepping behind the camera, including Juno’s Ellen Page, Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, “Saturday Night Live”’s Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Eve and Andrew Wilson.
Based on the book by Austinite and UT Film School alum Shauna Cross, the film follows Bliss Cavendar (Page), a misplaced waitress of the Oink Joint in Bodeen, Texas, who struggles through every Miss Bluebonnet pageant for her pageant-obsessed mom (Harden). She finally finds her calling in Austin when her and her best friend sneak out to catch a roller derby match. Eventually joining the Hurl Scouts, Cavendar becomes known as Babe Ruthless and enters a world of free-spirited women and fierce competition that begins to take the place of her dead end small town life. Read the rest of this entry »
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Drew Barrymore has been nominated at the 2010 People’s Choice Awards. Click here to vote!
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Drew Barrymore will be hosting the Saturday Night Live, musical guest will be Regina Spektor.
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In an new interview over at Entertainment Wise Drew Barrymore talked about Eclipse, and how she was one of the contenders to make the third installment in the Twilight Saga -
However, in an interview with the Irish Times, Barrymore said she wasn’t upset because she had not fallen “in love with” the script.
“Timing-wise, I’m glad that it didn’t work out and everything I think happens for whatever reason it’s supposed to,” she said.
“I’m very much looking forward to seeing that film. And there’s been two or three others that I’ve flirted with.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Its always hard growing up in front of the camera, but with a godfather like Steven Spielberg, life gets a little easier. Drew Barrymore, who got her start acting at 11 months old in a TV commercial, is now an acclaimed actress, producer and, with today’s release of “Whip It!,” a director as well.
Click on the photo below to see how Drew has transformed from a “Little Girl Lost” to a kick-butt filmmaker. Then, keep reading for more on her rise to fame after the jump.
She’s the granddaughter of cinema great John Barrymore and has actors strewn on both sides of her family tree, so it’s no surprise Drew had her first big hit at age seven cast as little sister Gertie in Spielbergs sci-fi masterpiece, “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.” Two years later, she transitioned from adorable to deadly in the adaptation of Stephen King’s “Firestarter.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Drew Barrymore, in plain and simple terms, is a sweetheart. From her soft yet confident tone of voice to her bubbly personality, the 34-year-old actress is a delight to be around, transmitting her joy to those in her company.
On Sept. 9, she visited the Artists for Humanity Epicenter in Boston to meet with admirers, sign autographs, take pictures, and share her new movie, “Whip It”, with a select group of fans at a special sneak preview and question and answer session.
She spoke with the audience about the film, a comedic and honest look at a young girl (played by Ellen Page) breaking out of the beauty pageant shell her traditional mother (Marcia Gay Harden) has locked her into, and joining an nontraditional roller derby team consisting of unique members played by such actresses as Kristen Wiig, Eve, and Barrymore herself. Read the rest of this entry »
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