Drew Barrymore said she wanted to rip a reporter’s face off

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Drew Barrymore got kind of testy during an interview in London promoting her new film with on-off boyfriend Justin Long, Going The Distance. She frankly told a reporter that the last journalist she’d talked to had harped too much on her troubled past and that she “wanted to punch her” and “wanted to rip this woman’s face off.” This is interesting because just yesterday Lainey at Lainey Gossip wrote a great editorial about how Drew is always very professional and sunny when promoting her films, even when they’re headed for dudsville. I really liked the way Lainey explained it. She wrote that celebrities are fragile people and that it bothers them when their films are trashed by critics, but that they have to keep going and acting like everything is ok. “Drew isn’t my favourite right now, but right now she’s also a survivor. So no doubt, if Going the Distance is sh-t, and that’s been the assumption, she’s had a lot of practise showing up for class tomorrow. Drew as you know is a seasoned warrior in the business.”

Maybe it’s getting to Drew, though, judging from how she’s said to have acted in London during her press tour. This doesn’t sound like her at all, and she must have been on edge:

Today, at 35, in plaid shirt and velvet sneakers, she is the antithesis of the spoiled Hollywood starlet. Thinner in the face than on screen, she is teeny at 5ft 4in.

I ask about Going the Distance and the importance of rom-coms. “I need them at the end of a crap day — a nice happy ending and a fairytale,” she agrees. “On the other hand I like movies that are very grounded in reality but still maintain their comedy.”

Her character Erin is alternately tough and vulnerable — a modern-day Katharine Hepburn. “I’m not at that place in my life where I want to play a character who says, I just have to get married’. I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the butt with steroids, and I feel like they’ll eat the husband alive on their wedding day. It just terrifies me — I don’t relate to that at all. I want to have a job. In fact, this movie asks the question: How do you keep the job and the guy?’ That is a question I’m interested in discussing, not like I’m going to rip your hair out because you stole my wedding dress’. I don’t care about that.”

Rom-coms conspire to keep lovers apart (class, sexuality, race) but here it’s lack of money and employment. “It’s not a movie where the female lead is in Christian Louboutins and thousand-dollar suits,” she agrees. There are some great jokes including an excruciating phone sex scene. Barrymore says she wanted to out the taboo. “It can be tricky,” she laughs.

Encouraged by her tone, I gesture at the clippings on the table and say I’m exhausted reading about her “wild child” past. Does she ever lose patience talking about it?

She nods angrily. “You should have heard this bitch 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.

“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.”

[From This is London via US Weekly]

It makes you wonder who the other reporter was and if there’s video of this terrible interview she had with Drew. It sounds really harsh but maybe Drew was totally fed up. It must grate on you to have to do so many interviews in a row, especially when people ask stupid questions. Drew will get through it, though, and she’ll keep making romcoms that aren’t quite as bad as the other crap out there. There is indeed buzz that her movie sucks, but it might do ok at the box office. It can’t do worse than The Switch.

Drew was on Letterman on Tuesday night and told a cute story about getting all her dogs to walk with her on Fifth Avenue without leashes. Note to Drew: that’s not legal! Letterman also showed her his bite marks from his aggressive dog. You can watch a segment of Drew’s interview here. She’s come a long way since flashing Letterman in 1995, but not all people realize that.

Drew Barrymore is shown outside the John Stewart show yesterday, 8/25/10. Credit: Girlie/Fame Pictures

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  1. Dorothy says:

    I have ALWAYS loved Drew and I will see this!

    The only movie I would not go see is that one with Eric Bana Lucky One? I really hate Eric Bana. My BFF and I even sat through Music and Lyrics with the beautiful Hugh Grant!

  2. gabs says:

    I like Laineys article but I still like drew.

    Drew is usually smarter with her rom coms than say kate hudson. The wedding dress thing was such a diss. catfight!

    Anyways, the movie might suck but its okay. Better luck next time drew!

  3. EzE says:

    Are those the only shoes she owns? Hasn’t she been wearing them constantly?

  4. canadianchick says:

    Love the shoes.I don’t blame celebs for getting fed up.

  5. eja102 says:

    you know, jennifer aniston is a better actress.

    interesting drew still has a career.

  6. guesty says:

    she’s loving those shoes!

    the reporter must’ve been a real ‘b’ since drew always seems so cheery.

  7. Merry says:

    I love her to death! I think she is incredibly good looking and cute and always sort of happy…Lainey is right, “sunny” is the word to describe her attitude. Also, to deal with the things she delt with and come out a somewhat normal person is to accomplish something!

  8. k says:

    1. JA is not a better actress than DB. JA is not an actress. She plays a version of herself in almost every role.

    2. How can anyone hate Eric Bana? He is melt in your mouth hot and an excellent actor

    3. Who cares if she is wearing the same shoes

  9. RHONYC says:

    big mistake f%cking with drew!

    she’s all sweetness and lisps but…

    her nitwit mother used to drag her to studio 54 back in the day when she was like 7.

    poor thing probably had to fend off pedophiles and druggies trying to take advantage of her.

    i have a feeling she can scrap with the best of ’em.

  10. aenflex says:

    There are some people in this world that just rub me the wrong way, I will never like them despite any efforts they might make. To me they are scum and just repulsive. It’s pretty random. Maybe that reporter was that to Drew Barrymore, just someone who absolutely was wrong to interview her. Or maybe it didn’t even happen, Drew only said it did because this particular interviewer was being an ass? Who knows but ripping a face off is not something I ever thought I would hear her say about someone. Still like her though.

  11. malachais says:

    This woman is crazy rich and wears the same dang shoes, good grief ;p

  12. Kitten says:

    So she has a pair of shoes she likes. I don’t get what the problem is.

    “I swear to God, with some of these romantic comedies, these women are being shot in the butt with steroids, and I feel like they’ll eat the husband alive on their wedding day”
    LOL!

  13. LOVE ANGELINA says:

    LOL I wanna know who it was that got Drew so angry too. I think this movie can do worse than The Switch, it doesn’t look as interesting. Only two faces the public really knows in the whole thing and it just looks generic. The trailers aren’t funny and the leads look, dare I say, awkward.

  14. eja102 says:

    what was Drew playing in Charlie’s Angels?

    oh yes, annoying.

  15. shorty40 says:

    I absolutely LOVE the jeans with those awesome shoes!!! That just went on my “must get” list! 😀

  16. Sam says:

    Why can’t rich people/celebrities wear the same shoes/clothes/purses over and over? They are just like us. If they have to wear something different every day of their lives what happens to the clothes they already wore? how wastefull!
    I know for big events they borrow dresses sometimes, but going in and out of interviews they should be able to wear what they are comfortable in.

  17. Kate says:

    I like Drew, she is one of the least insufferable celebrities out there. Though I don’t believe her to be a great actress.

    However, I do have a rant, and I am not exclusively referring to Drew when I say this:

    I couldn’t care less if a movie star is sick of answering the same question over and over again. They get paid millions to read words and make facial expressions. They don’t like that press junkets become tedious and that they have to constantly repeat themselves? Here is some advice: Get the fuck over it.

    They should go down to Chile and get trapped in a motherfucking mine with those 33 men, while making shit for money and barely supporting their family. Oh yeah, and they should do it without the adoration of millions and people kissing their asses every step of the way. Then they can bitch about their job and I will have sympathy.

    Why can’t movie stars just make their movies, take their millions, and be appreciative?

    I understand that they are people with a right to feel bad and complain, but it comes across as smug and ungrateful when they complain to the public, who has no concept of the glamorous life celebs lead. If they want to bitch, they should save it for their other rich and famous friends.

    I don’t begrudge people their success; I am a very successful person in my own right. I don’t make anywhere near as much as celebs, but I make a great living. I also spent years in college while working for minimum wage just trying to get by, and I saw how hard that life is. I will never complain about my life and my job, especially when I drive my brand-new car by the guy who walks around town with a shopping cart collecting cans and bottles to make a living.

    It can always get worse, folks, and movie stars would do well to remember that.

    Sorry, this wasn’t meant to be such an extensive rant, but once I got going I just couldn’t stop bitching! Ok, I am done now!

  18. Juice in LA says:

    I love those shoes! She was On The Daily Show this week too, and I thought she was wonderful. Maybe she’s just growing up and out of that sweet, Daisy chain, fluffy teenager we have all seen for so long, and is tired of the BS.

    Or maybe reporters and their questioning has gotten more aggressive and mean spirited over the years and she’s taking a stand.

    Either way, love her, love her love her.

  19. original kate says:

    why do people keep bringing up her wild past? she was like, 10, or something. it was a long time ago, she was a little girl, and i think her parents bordered on child abuse with her. i can see how she would get upset – must be painful to relive.

  20. Kitten says:

    @17-I completely agree with you but in this case, the reporter asked her–“Encouraged by her tone, I gesture at the clippings on the table and say I’m exhausted reading about her “wild child” past. Does she ever lose patience talking about it?”

    So I give her pass because she was just answering the question honestly. I do think that celebrities complain a lot and it’s ridiculous. They want the all fame, money, and perks but don’t want the annoying crap that comes with it. Tough shit.

  21. Kim says:

    Drew is 35 I can’t recall her doing anything outrageous in over 15 yrs.Why ask her going to rehab when she was 13.Why not ask her about her experience producing, directing or her work w/ the World Food Program

  22. kim says:

    Yet she is wearing Louboutins in all these pics! She used to be nice but she is now affected like pretty much every other actress out there. She needs to realize she got famous playing a cute young child after being picked for the role by her GODFATHER. She has very mediocre talent but was handed fame on a golden platter ans should be more humble (like she used to seem to be)>

  23. apsutter says:

    She is rocking the SHIT out of those jeans and heels. Keep it up drew, your fabulous!

  24. fizXgirl3114 says:

    She married tom green… I’d say that’s a recent example of something outrageous.

    wow, she is wearing the same shirt/jacket and shoes in those two pics. Yes, celebs can wear the same thing twice but these are presumably very special occasions where they will get photographed a lot… It would be in their best interest to wear something different. plus, those shirts look like they were pulled out of her ass… She’s lost a lot of weight though…