Getting Their Skate On: Whip It’s Girls Go Wild
Posted on Oct 01, 2009 @ 06:00PM - Add a comment
Hollywood may eschew the notion, but guess what? Ladies need to let loose, too. In Whip It, Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with a teenage girl’s coming-of-age story that blends the bad-ass culture of roller derby with the tenderness of a comedic family drama. Barrymore also appears as a derby skater named Smashley Simpson, but her sensibility is more apparent in the film’s overall feel: uneven in its pacing and occasionally arm’s length from an emotional coup -- but at times perfect, with scenes that are both hilarious and poignant.
Style Radar: Whip It's Derby Dolls
Posted on Sep 30, 2009 @ 11:22AM - Add a comment
What was black and white and red all over? The cast of Drew Barrymore's Whip It, at the Los Angeles Premiere of the starlets directorial debut!
Drew and friends rocked the red carpet of Grauman's Chinese Theatre last night, getting everyone in the roller derby spirit!
Click here to check out Drew, Olivia Wilde, Juliette Lewis, Eve, Ellen Page, Shenae Grimes, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Trammell, and Justin Long get dressed for the Derby!
Director Drew dominated the bash, looking elegant and sexy in a body-hugging L'Wren Scott. Just as in roller derby, however, some of these ladies took a carpet tumble.
See who in our gallery!
Drew Barrymore Gets Her Skates On
Posted on Sep 06, 2009 @ 04:00PM - 2 comments
If you’re a Drew Barrymore fan and in the Detroit area September 11, there’s only one place to be – but only if you can roller skate!
Drew produced, directed and stars in Whip It, a film about the crazy world of women’s roller derby, and many of the scenes were shot in Michigan.
To promote the opening, Drew decided to host a first-ever skating premiere. It will be at the Bonaventure Skating Center in Farmington Hills, and her costars Ellen Page and Juliette Lewis will be on hand.
Drew is staying tight-lipped about whether boyfriend Justin Long will be there. “We’re friends, and we love each other, she recently said of their on-off-on romance.”
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But can he skate?
Drew Barrymore Opens Up About On-And-Off Again Boyfriend Justin Long
Posted on Sep 03, 2009 @ 03:57PM - 2 comments
Drew Barrymore has morphed herself into more than an actress. A successful producer and now also a director, she recently added photographer to thelist and opened up about her on-and-off romance with Justin Long.
Gracing the cover of Time Out New York, the actress went around the city armed with a camera and spoke candidly about the experience and her personal life. She also showed off her recently-acquired bruises.
Read the full interview here
"I am really respectful about taking people’s photos," she said. "Yeah, it’s ironic. I do wish that was the way people treated me when it comes to photography. It’s more like, “Can you bend over? We’re about to anally probe you.” [Laughs]"
Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It (which opens on October 2) centers on roller derby and life was soon inspired by the fiction.
"Yeah—what I love about the sport is that it’s real and high stakes... And I love when [women] get to be women and not feel like they have to become a man in order to play in a man’s world." Lately, she herself has dabbled in male-centric behavior by participating in a "female fight club" which resulted in still-visible bruises on her arm.
"We discovered at a bar one night that I definitely have that, like, feisty little boy inside of me, and when I drink he comes out," she explained.
Currently, she is filming Going the Distance with Justin Long and the two are rumored to have rekindled their romance.
"We’re friends, and we love each other, and that’s all we know. [Laughs]" Barrymore offered. As for the movie's plot, the long-distance relationship thread may hit close to home: "And it’s great because we can bring so much personal emotion to it, and yet we don’t want to be defined by anyone, because we don’t define ourselves. We can bring a lot of honesty to this thing."
The movie opens in 2010.
