I’ve updated the gallery with lots of beautiful high quality photos of Drew at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Going The Distance’ on Aug 23rd! Click the images or link to view more in the gallery! Enjoy!

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Appearances and Events > Appearances and Events 2010 > “Going The Distance” – L.A. Premiere – 8/23/10

I’ve updated the gallery with a new shoot of Drew by Mark Sayles.  Enjoy!

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Studio Photoshoots and Outtakes > Set 133 – (2010)

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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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I’ve updated the gallery with better quality outtakes from Drew’s August, 2010 shoot for Nylon Magazine.  Enjoy!

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Studio Photoshoots and Outtakes > Set 132 – (2010) Nylon Mag/August

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.”

source: digitalspy.com

I’ve updated the gallery with photos of Drew arriving at Radio One in London, England on Aug 20th!

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Appearances and Events 2010 > Arriving to Radio One London, Eng – 8/20/10

I’ve updated the gallery with photos of Drew and Justin at the world premiere of ‘Going The Distance’ held in London, England today (Aug 19th).  They look so cute..  can’t wait to see this movie!  Click the below image or link to view more photos of the premiere in the gallery!

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Appearances and Events > Appearances and Events 2010 > Going The Distance – World Film Premiere – 8/19/10

I’ve updated the gallery with photos of Drew at the Nylon Cover issue and Denim Party on Aug 10th. Click the images or below link to view more in the gallery!

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Appearances and Events > Appearances and Events 2010 > Nylon and Express’ Denim Issue Party – 8/10/10

Talk about mixing high and low fashion! What did the adorable Drew Barrymore choose to wear to host the Nylon
magazine/Express party this week in Los Angeles?

This gorgeous $25 metallic-printed 3/4-sleeve shift dress
from a thrift store paired with $760 Yves Saint Laurent “Tribute” pumps, of course! I love the 1960′s vibe she’s got going on; the psychedelic print, the cut, and the pumped-up voluminous feel of her hair is a total win.

It’s so refreshing to see someone mix it up and have fun
with fashion. Just last month she made an appearance in an Oscar de la Renta runway dress–a far cry, financially, from an Austin, TX thrift-store find.

Don’t you love it when vintage Drew — the irreverent, quirky, girl power praising, throw-a-daisy-in-her-hair Drew that we all idolized in the 90′s–steps out on the red carpet?

source: shine.yahoo.com