Drew Barrymore starts her acting career at a very young age, the most breakout role is E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. Become a celebrity at youth was not easy as it seen. She has so many battles and you can see her today, being successful as an actress,producer and director.
On InStyle and Parade she talks deeply about her being celebrity, and there are still moments she battles in life, one of those is being a celebrity.
“Some days I want nothing more than a brilliant mask so I could look like someone else and go wander the streets and be free,” she said. “I’m very peeved that Halloween only comes once a year.”
The only downside about her is her relationship to her mom, the daughter of American actor John Drew Barrymore and Ildikó Jaid Barrymore hasn’t ready to talk about her,
“I am OK with my dad, but my mom and I have yet to work it all out,” she said, adding that she doesn’t talk about it because “how do you talk about something you’re confused about?”
“I believe she will see the film [Whip It]. I believe she does feel pride in me. I used to pull a lot emotionally from all the stuff with my family, but I did not do this movie to cleanse myself of the mother/daughter debacle that happened in my life. I have been much more objective about my childhood and my relationship with my mother in these last few years. I used to be more attached to all that. I won’t deny that the baggage was there at one point.”
Success with Charlie’s Angels, she has brought the new generation of girls power.
“I like teams — I like buddies. I don’t understand women who are competitive, apart from positive forums like athletics. One person is a powerful thing, but a tribe is unstoppable.”
Still remember her first broken heart with is big boyfriend Jamie Walters, the “He’s Just Not That Into You” actress also remember her first kiss,
“A boy when I was young girl. Younger than most. But it was lovely, sweet and romantic—what a first kiss should be.”
Feels happy about her directorial debut in Whip It, it hailed as a success well before it rolls into theaters October 2. Just like another debut she made while be able on her own at 14.
“When I first started paying my rent at 14. And signing my lease. I was so excited to be on my own.”
But I say, her winning most, after all the extreme experience is to accept her body and keeps the balance about health.
“I don’t have the time or discipline or interest in having a perfect-10 body. I work out, I eat right, but I’ll always be a little bit of Jell-O on a pole.”
Another balance she has been working on is her battling long term sobriety.
“No, I’m not [completely sober]. And I don’t claim to be — quite the opposite. I’ve tried to find the balance. I hope it’s balanced.”
Seeing her growing up as celebrity, and seeing her finally can win from all her troubled childhood and becoming a creative woman from her wild, free, eccentric, her spirit’s way, like seeing another Hollywood movie, of a little girl who has been tough in the rough business of entertainment industry.
What’s she think about her seemingly carefree spirit?
“I don’t know if I’m completely comfortable ever. Sometimes I can totally let go with complete abandon–sing and dance and run around and not care what people think about me. Still, there seems to be this ball of stress inside me that I can’t get rid of.”
One for sure for her working is only for happiness.
“That is exactly what it feels like to me. It feels as if I’m willing myself to be happy. I do feel as if I am thrusting myself forward all the time.”
There’s one person, Nancy, who runs her production company and her favorite person I’ve met in my life so far, that had on her refrigerator the sign Happiness is a Choice, it means so deep for her, she thought, “That is so simple and yet complex and wise.’ As you can see, I get verklempt just talking about it.”
On her 34 age, she has been through so many from life’s up and life’s down. It makes her at the point of believe only to reality, about the connection of happiness and sadness, successful and failure.
“I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days. At the end of my movie, there’s honesty. There’s truth. There’s peace. What tomorrow will bring is still in question. There is a joy that’s earned by failure or triumph. All those things add up to teach us, if we are open to it.”
She has grown up, in such amazing way, even she’s “always wondered what it felt like to be an adult.” And it all “because I’ve always had to mother myself. I think maybe I finally am one.”
I see the bitterness, bravery and strength, all mixed to one inside her and complete her to be Drew Barrymore
Keep those good spirits, girl.
