DREW Barrymore is a famous actress. She's coming up movie is "Going The Distance" DREW Barrymore is no stranger to being separated from a boyfriend.The actress stars alongside on/off beau Justin Long in new movie "Going The Distance" about a couple who try to maintain a long-distance relationship, one in New York City, New York and the other in San Francisco, California. And Drew says the role struck a chord with her.
“I have been in long-distance relationships my whole life and I find that they take an extraordinary amount of work,” she said. “I don’t think they are much different from a relationship when you live across the street. They just take work and you want that work to be something that’s fun and reciprocal. “The best kinds of relationships are the ones where you don’t feel like you are doing all the work and that the other person is never meeting you half-way. I think that just breeds an empty, lonely resentment. “But if you both bend together and go, ‘We’re going to fix this, we are going to make it work, we are going to make plans so that we feel we have things to look forward to” Drew recently admitted she’s not a very good driver because she doesn’t pay much attention to the road. “I’m a really horrible driver. [I'm] really fast and I don’t pay any attention to anything that’s going on around me,” she said. “I’m completely fiddling with my radio and lost in my music and just sort of looking out the window at the billboards and going: ‘Oh that looks interesting’. “And then I’m like: ‘When was the last time I actually looked at the road?’”Drew Barrymore's phone sex dilemma MOVIES She goes the 'Distance' for her art with awkward scene Comments
August 22, 2010
BY CINDY PEARLMAN LOS ANGELES — She’s not old enough to have a senior moment. Drew Barrymore prefers to call it a “brain blank.”At this moment, the Hollywood power player and Cover Girl model is mulling over her typical first-date banter. It’s not: “So what box office did your film do last weekend.”At this moment, the Hollywood power player and Cover Girl model is mulling over her typical first-date banter. It’s not: “So what box office did your film do last weekend.”
During the getting-to-know-you small talk, Barrymore will ask the guy a few basic questions. “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 a little spontaneous role-playing. Click to enlarge image Drew Barrymore gives her “Going the Distance” co-star a hug at the movie's premiere. In real life, the two actors have an on-again, off-again relationship. “You want to see each other but you can’t because of schedules,” said Barrymore.
During the getting-to-know-you small talk, Barrymore will ask the guy a few basic questions. “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 a little spontaneous role-playing. “OK, I love this because I can easily say that the movies are ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Lost in America’ and ‘Sullivan’s Travels,’” rattles off the casual Barrymore whose wearing blue jeans and a long, plaid shirt. Her trademark scratchy voice and warm laugh makes you feel like her 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. Oh damn! “Shoot, I’m such a music nut, too,” she adds, but can’t think of another favorite. “This is really sad. Sometimes someone says, ‘Let’s go to breakfast’ and you can’t think of one thing to eat. It’s like you’ve never eaten before and your brain goes blank when the waitress asks for your order. This is one of those moments.”Dream job vs. relationship Luckily, she has total recall when it comes to her new romantic comedy, “Going the Distance,” in which she plays a struggling waitress who is years behind in her career because she followed a guy to New York City. She wants to write for a major newspaper and is looking for a job. Enter Barrymore’s real-life boyfriend Justin Long, who plays a music executive who has just been dumped by his girlfriend.They meet cute and fall in love. Then the bottom drops out when she’s offered her dream job at the San Francisco Chronicle. Welcome to the wonders of a long-distance relationship complete with frequent flyer miles, airline delays, expensive phone bills and late-night phone sex.
In person, they practically maul each other because there are only 48 hours in a weekend before someone has to get on another flight. It begs the question: What is it like to kiss your real-life main squeeze in a movie? “Kissing in the movie was a necessary evil,” Long teases. “The first kiss was kind of sloppy, but it was comfortable to do. I was thinking about my grandmother during the kiss. “Because she has always been an inspiration for me,” Long adds. “Oh, and Drew is a great kisser.” Barrymore says movie kissing is always a bit traumatic. “You’re lucky if you get a good kisser,” she says. “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?” Names, please? Laughing loudly, she says, “Oh, that’s never happening.” ‘Naked stuff’ Barrymore does a lot more than kissing in a film that features a randy scene where the couple is so happy to see each other that they can’t make it past the dining room table. There are also some frank moments of phone sex. “It’s different from your typical romantic comedy,” says director Nanette Burstein. “The characters are quite uncensored in the movie.” “Some of the naked stuff was uncomfortable,” says Long. “It’s hard to be intimate around a group of grown men.” As for simulating phone sex, Barrymore blushes. “It was a great scene, but I also knew it was one of those scenes that could fail miserably. It was a scene where you have to go for it and not compromise because you’re afraid of it,” Barrymore says. “We built two sets on the same soundstage and we filmed it simultaneously. We did a lot of takes,” says Burstein.
“We compared who had a more awkward experience,” Long says. “All the crew guys were trying to make jokes to keep it light. It made it more awkward. Drew said everyone in her room was stone cold silent, which was that much weirder for her. “Nanette kept coming over to me to describe cinematically what to do with my hands,” Long says. “I said, ‘I think I know!’” Escaping into movie’s story Life couldn’t be much better for Barrymore, who is not only an A-list actress, but also a producer and director (last year’s “Whip It”). “She’s a fabulous producer and a wonderful director with a great eye for detail and story. That’s my way of pitching her a new movie later on today,” says “Going the Distance” producer Adam Shankman. “I’m all ears,” says Barrymore. She’s not too lippy when it comes to discussing her private life. The twice-divorced Barrymore quietly dates Long. The two have had an on-again, off-again relationship and the status of it these days isn’t for public consumption. Barrymore sighs when asked how someone who is so busy can make a love affair work. “It’s not easy,” she says. “You want to see each other, but you can’t because of schedules or obligations. It’s really tough to do everything that you want to do in a day.” More than anything, she wants to make great movies.
“The kind of movies I want to make have to mean something to me personally,” she says. “It must be something I can escape into and forget what’s going on around me. I never want to lose sight when it comes to that sense of being able to relate. “I want that beautiful balance in a movie, where I’m crying and laughing at the same time.”
“We compared who had a more awkward experience,” Long says. “All the crew guys were trying to make jokes to keep it light. It made it more awkward. Drew said everyone in her room was stone cold silent, which was that much weirder for her. “Nanette kept coming over to me to describe cinematically what to do with my hands,” Long says. “I said, ‘I think I know!’” Escaping into movie’s story Life couldn’t be much better for Barrymore, who is not only an A-list actress, but also a producer and director (last year’s “Whip It”). “She’s a fabulous producer and a wonderful director with a great eye for detail and story. That’s my way of pitching her a new movie later on today,” says “Going the Distance” producer Adam Shankman. “I’m all ears,” says Barrymore. She’s not too lippy when it comes to discussing her private life. The twice-divorced Barrymore quietly dates Long. The two have had an on-again, off-again relationship and the status of it these days isn’t for public consumption. Barrymore sighs when asked how someone who is so busy can make a love affair work. “It’s not easy,” she says. “You want to see each other, but you can’t because of schedules or obligations. It’s really tough to do everything that you want to do in a day.” More than anything, she wants to make great movies.
“The kind of movies I want to make have to mean something to me personally,” she says. “It must be something I can escape into and forget what’s going on around me. I never want to lose sight when it comes to that sense of being able to relate. “I want that beautiful balance in a movie, where I’m crying and laughing at the same time.”
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