Wow – you never really hear what an actor does to prepare themselves for a serious role. It really isn’t just about line memorization is it? Drew Barrymore opened up to Elle Magazine about what she went through to prepare herself to play Grey Gardens’ Little Edie
On preparing for the role of Grey Gardens’ Little Edie:
“I did what I do when I have a big challenge lying in my path. I go to school. I shut the windows, the shades come down, the phone gets turned off, I don’t go out – I study.”
On completely transforming for the role:
“I knew this was not a courtesy meeting, but not far from it. I didn’t want to come in there like a hungry freak. But I also felt every second counting. So – polite conversation, then he started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanor change, actually noticing all the hard work I had put into it. So I just put it out there. I said, ‘Look – I have all of this inside of me, and I promise you that I will change my face to be her. I will learn how to stop talking out of the side of my mouth. I will go to school to relearn body language. I will shut out the world. I will not talk to my friends. I will give up my life for this, because I don’t think you can play this character and have a social life and balance the two mentalities. I won’t act. I’ll become this person.’”
Click on the continue reading link below to read what Drew says about longtime boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti and which Hollywood career she would like to try.
On her breakup from boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti: “It’s hard to be with
someone for five years and say, This isn’t going to work. But it was a
time in my life where I finally just said, I can’t live for anyone else
anymore. I have to be on my own.”
On the Hollywood career she would like to try: “I’m in my thirties now,
and I really want to try all the things that I haven’t gotten to do
yet, like directing, and doing a drama. I’ve produced and gotten to do
a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10
years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that.
I wanted to get scared again.”
I love that she says she’ll quit talking out the side of her mouth! LOL Drives me nuts!
Acting is really not that big of a deal. There are more important things in life she could be doing.
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Drew’s the best. If she says she’s gonna do something, she does it and that is extremely admirable. One of my favorite girls!!! What movie is she talking about? I haven’t heard of it…}i{mariah_fan}i{
It’s Grey Gardens which is based on a documentary of the same name. It’s about a mother and daughter who are the aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy. I watched the documentary recently and it was really interesting. The movie looks like it will be good also.