I just realized that I haven’t posted about this one before. Drew was interviewed for The New York Times a while ago for whom she also made a photoshoot. Read the interview below and click on the thumbnail to view the outtake in full size. Enjoy!

“I’M anything but calm,” Drew Barrymore said. “I’m a little rabid shark. I love to laugh. I love people who are funny.”

The actress Drew Barrymore has directed her first film, “Whip It,” about a teenager (portrayed by Ellen Page) on the roller derby circuit.

“I love girls” who are fierce “and capable,” she continued. “I could never just sit on the sidelines, I have to get in there. I could never be like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I know it’s scary, but just go for it, you’ll be fine.’ I wanted to get hurt and be afraid with them.”

She was talking about her headlong immersion in the making of “Whip It,” her feature directorial debut, set in the world of roller derby, a film that she also produced and in which she appears, taking on the largely ornamental, comic supporting role of Smashley Simpson, an undisciplined member of the Austin Hurl Scouts. Ms. Barrymore’s first close-up shoves the actress-producer-director into the camera with blood streaming from nose to chin.

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