It’s been a big month for her thus far, as Drew Barrymore just announced her engagement and also finds herself featured on the cover of the February 2012 issue of InStyle.

The 36-year-old actress adorns the publication’s front page while clad in white Max Mara dress and Tiffany & Co. earrings, with the accompanying skateboard-themed spread having been shot by photographer Andreas Sjodin.

Highlights from Miss Barrymore’s feature interview are as follows. For more, be sure to check out InStyle!

On her wish that she lessen the pace of life:
“I would love to slow things down a bit. We’re living in a time when we have such expectations of immediacy. Everything is instantaneous, everything’s out there.”

On time with her fiancé Will Kopelman:
“It’s just the best! We go on group trips and spend holidays together – there’s a lot of love! And that is really nice and very different from the way I grew up, which was more unstable and inconsistent, with a lot of highs and lows. It’s funny, when I was younger, I used to say I’d hate a flat line – that I want the ups and the downs, the roller coaster. But I’m actually really enjoying the flat line.”

On her old-school ways:
“I’m an old-school gal. I love to play with hair and makeup and clothes.”

On her philosophy when it comes to life:
“Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.”

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The ‘Going the Distance’ star opens up to BettyConfidential about sex and what’s next.

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:

“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!”

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?”

Any names you would like to divulge, Drew?
Oh, that’s never happening.

You have a scene in Going the Distance where you’re so happy to see your screen boyfriend that you can’t make it past the dining room table. There are also some frank moments of phone sex.
I was excited to play a new character. I wasn’t in the place in my life where I wanted to play a cuckoo, wacky, role reversal character. Someone who can hang out with guys and loves women and has a spine and is funny. I relate to that kind of person in my life. It was also a pleasure to get to improv and work in a more free flowing way, And for once I didn’t have to be censored because I had an R-rating.

What was your most challenging scene?
One of the challenges I was most excited about was doing a drunk scene. We focused on what type of drunk is she and what can we ad lib. The question was if you were really angry how would just let loose? It was the most fun day at work ever because I could just let it go.

What was it like to have Christina Applegate as your screen sister?
We started to look alike. We could have come from the same womb. We used to be in a dance class together as kids. She looked really good in spandex and I did not. I celebrated her and I was horrified in the corner.

You have a scene in this film where you simulate phone sex. Was that a teeny bit embarrassing?
It was a great scene. But I also knew it was one of those scenes that would fail miserably or be fun and exciting. It was a scene where you have to go for it and not compromise because you’re afraid of it. In fact, two sets were built on the soundstage and Justin and I filmed the scene at the same time. Later, we compared awkward experiences. In his case, all the crew guys were making jokes, which was weird. In my room, it was cold and silent, which was worse!

During the phone sex scene, you tell your screen boyfriend that he’s hot like Mark Wahlberg in his undies? Did you ever tell Mark about this homage to his bod?
I ran into Mark and said, “During my phone sex scene in my new movie, we talked about how hot you are in your underwear and sexy.” It didn’t really go over that much. I don’t think he was prepared for it, but he was flattered. He’s a very nice guy. But I’ve had other conversations with him that went much better.

How do you navigate real long distance relationships?
It’s about keeping lines of communication open. You must talk and see each other as much as possible. But it’s not easy. There’s a lot of longing for the other person. 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.

What are your goals these days? Marriage? Babies? Movies?
I’m at the point where I’m really thinking about what’s next for me. It could be all of the above. As for movies, the kind of movies I want to make have to mean something to me personally. 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. I want to be emotional about what I see on the big screen. It needs to be real for me.

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Here’s a video of  Drew on David Letterman on Aug 24th.  Drew discusses her recent photoshoot for Elle which we have featured in our new layout!  You can view more high quality photos from the shoot HERE!

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Back out for another evening of promotional work, Drew Barrymore was all smiles as she arrived at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City on Tuesday (August 24).

There for an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman”, the “ET” actress is in the midst of building hype for her upcoming film “Going the Distance” – which hits theaters on September 3rd.

Having attended the Nanette Burstein directed film’s premiere in Los Angeles the previous evening, Drew opened up to the Evening Standard about an awful interview taking place at the red carpet event.

She tells, “You should have heard this b**ch I had to do an interview with before you. God, I wanted to punch her, she would just not drop the youth thing. I have no problem talking about it. I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.”

Miss Barrymore continued to vent, “It’s actually good to get it done young and have a great life later. But yeah, man, I wanted to rip this woman’s face off. She just would not shut up about it.”

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The 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.”

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.”

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.

“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.

“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 better 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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Drew is stunning as ever on the September, 2010 issue of Marie Claire UK and provides a candid interview!  I’ve updated the gallery with a copy of the high resolution copy!

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Drew Barrymore on love:

‘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.’

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.
‘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.”’
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.’

Drew Barrymore on Sex & relationships

‘Oh, I’ve had successful phone sex – it can work,’ she says with a twinkle in her eye. ‘I think it’s fucking weird – it’s super weird. I totally tried it, though, with a little success at one point in my life, but it was just a thing you try, like wearing orange for a while. I don’t think it’s something I could live my life with. What makes me happy right now is something very tangible and that’s the people I know that I really, really like and love and get such a sense of happiness from. My tribe.’

‘Notice how much fucking easier friendships are – because expectations are the mother of deformity. And, also, the minute you have sex, it changes everything.’

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I’ve updated the gallery with high quality scans of Drew in the August, 2010 issue of Nylon magazine. Enjoy!

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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.

On being perfect:
“You have to not pretend to be perfect, because that’s not only boring as fuck, but it’s just not real… So I feel so liberated in that way. I just really want to be true to myself. That’s essential in life. I would never be able to put on a charade. I would totally f*** it up.”

On technology and social media:
“Ironically, with all this, ‘We’re now more connected than ever with technology,’ I don’t think we’ve ever been farther apart. I think it’s bulls***.”

On beau Justin Long getting naked for their film, ‘Going the Distance.:
“It’s funny because usually it’s the girl who’s naked. I was like, ‘That’s right, bitch. The tables are turned!’ ”

On working in Hollywood:
“I had a big gap in my life where I wasn’t allowed to work at all because no one would hire me, which was great because I think you need that humility. You have to have everything taken away, or you have to have a major reality check, so that you always appreciate what you have.”

On shopping:
“I never have time for shopping… I’ve been wearing the same f***ing pair of jeans for 10 years.”

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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.”

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?

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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