Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most popular highly paid actresses in Hollywood one of the biggest movie stars in the world and she's only 27. she's the youngest actor ever to be nominated for four Academy Awards she won once for best actress she can give dramatic performances or romp through madcap comedies a range that gets her compared to Catherine Hepburn and Meryl Streep she took an unconventional path to Hollywood a risky and surprising part of her story we found a young woman with a fiercely independent Spirit living a life she could only have dreamed of growing up in Louisville Kentucky how did you get from Kentucky to the top of Hollywood desperation um an appetite confidence and ambition you really wanted this I I knew if I just was given the chance that it would work I just knew but not even she knew it would work so well for a decade in Hollywood she has been defying odds and breaking barriers at 21 she shattered the myth that women can't carry an action franchise or Hunger Games movies earned almost 3 billion dollars she made three comedy dramas in as many years playing Unforgettable flawed resilient women Tiffany a young Widow in Silver Linings Playbook you are not a stand-up guy right now if it's me reading the signs oh okay foreign she played Rosalind a loony Long Island housewife you fell in love Don't You Dare Forget that part we fell madly in love and in Joy she was a desperate mother turned entrepreneur it's the only month that you're ever gonna buy the bump you ever gonna use she earned Academy Award nominations for all three movies I'm just the crazy [ __ ] with a dead husband and took home the Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook hey Tiffany but Jennifer Lawrence is not one to rest on her laurels I am hard on myself why I get paid a huge amount of money to be able to do what I love so you're the one putting this pressure on you yes too many people sacrificed so that I could be here my parents you know changed their entire lives to support me and I I worked too hard to get here to be stupid about it Lawrence's father owned a construction company her mother ran a summer camp she told us her two older brothers pretty much ignored their annoying little sister did you used to play act when you were growing up no oh yes I was constantly performing we just didn't know that that meant I was an actor I just thought you know I was a weirdo but I understand that you pretended to have a problem with your leg at school who told you that oh we've got our sources in school I told everybody I had a wooden leg because I like walked in a very consistent lamp like incredibly consistent and when my mom came to get me from school my teachers were like it's awful what happened to Jennifer's leg my mom was like she does not she's her leg has not been amputated I used to just invent stories just to invent them she used zany Antics to hide the fact she was a poor student hyperactive didn't fit in she could drive her parents crazy my parents were just you know they would go through periods of time or um they just wanted me out of the house and it was called a lockout and so I'd go to the door and it was locked and I'd be like all right I gotta find something else to do until my parents are ready to deal with me again they were a handful that was a handful and I got it we never thought about it and I've always been very self-aware without my annoying goodness she told us she felt lost in school and dreamed of becoming an actor at 14 she badgered her parents to visit New York where improbably she was discovered by a modeling Scout then given some scripts to read I've struggled through school I never felt very smart and when I'm reading the script and I feel like I know exactly what it would look like if somebody felt that way that was a whole part of my brain that I didn't even know existed something that I could be confident in and I didn't want to let it go what was it you wanted so much it's so hard to explain it was just an overwhelming feeling of I get this this is what I was meant to do and to get people to try to understand that when you're 14 years old wanting to drop out of school and do this and your parents are just like you're out of your mind did you finish up High School I dropped out of middle school I don't technically have a GED or a diploma I am self-educated do you regret that no I I really don't I wanted to forge my own path I found what I wanted to do and I didn't want anything getting in the way of it and even friends for many years were not as important to me as my career I mean from the age of 14. that stubborn determination landed her a role in a sitcom when her parents saw her happy and focused for the first time they agreed to accompany her to Hollywood she never went back to school spell house at 18 she wrangled the lead in a small Bleak independent film called Winter's Bone I don't know what to do it was a breakout performance that earned her first Oscar nomination there's not a lot of dialogue but yet your presence fills the screen it was really just feeling believing you know in this situation look at it through her eyes and then that's always going to come across in your eyes and your face and your in your body language that empathy that you can channel that into acting yeah I mean that's how I act that's really my only tool I think no acting training no it's just empathy yes is that difficult or easy for you to do that's easy to just let go of Jennifer Lawrence yeah because that's when you get the high that's what I crave that really is getting lost into something being almost possessed by another emotion that's the adrenaline rush that's the high that I can't live without in her new movie Red Sparrow Lawrence stars as a Russian ballerina coerced into being a spy it calls for nudity something she thought she'd never do after she was traumatized when her most private pictures were hacked in 2014 and spread across the internet well you told us you didn't like doing movies with a lot of sex in them but red Sparrow is all about sex why'd you change your mind I read this script that I'm dying to do and the one thing that's getting in my way is nudity and I realize there's a difference between consent and not and I showed up for the first day and I did it and I felt empowered I feel like something that was taken from me I got back and amusing in my art and that hacking incident did it just vaporize it didn't vaporize but I did feel like I took the power out of out of having my my body taken from me I felt like I I took it back and I could and I could almost own it again are you worried that audiences won't see it the way you see it I was but it doesn't matter it's my body and it's my art and it's my choice and if you don't like boobs you should not go see red Sparrow after making two movies a year since the age of 20 Lawrence is taking some time off all right whole silver she wanted to go fishing something she's always found relaxing so we found a trout lake in Anaheim here away from Paparazzi and the pressures of celebrity we found her playful and fully aware she's a 27 year old in a high wire act with the whole world watching it's problematic for you to go out into the public I just have to like prepare a little bit it's always the one day that you look like crap that a Paparazzi just jumps out from behind a car and you're like oh it looked so cute yesterday does the fame sort of lock you in it does but like my favorite activity is sitting by the fire drinking wine with my girlfriends that's why you're coming it's a girl's night with Bill it's a great night this is good she invited us over to meet her three closest friends Laura Justine and Lauren they've known her since long before she became a movie star and she says they keep her sane so you're like her Rock her foundation we are her security guards much more secure emotional security guard yeah they tease her no she cannot I suppose I told her the other day I'm like you know your classic dance moves but she got so mad at me and she said I don't do that I don't dance and then she goes wait a second this feels like home when Jennifer left the room her friends conspired should I bring him the self-portrait it was a masterpiece she'd painted at 16. a self-portrait oh my God I did not know it was gonna go that far I mean that was that was literally jumped over me to get to this picture God talk about laughing therapy that seems to be kind of central to who you are laughing the laughing you gotta have it I gotta have it it's her defense against the brutal Cutthroat side of Show Business which has been on conspicuous display recently with shocking allegations of sexual harassment and assault Lawrence has added her voice to the time's up movement and spoke to us about Harvey Weinstein he produced her oscar-winning movie Silver Linings Playbook was he ever inappropriate no he was never inappropriate with me but what he did is Criminal and deplorable and when it came out and I heard about it I wanted to kill him the way that he destroyed so many women's lives um I want to see him in jail she was one of the first to speak out publicly about pay and equity in Hollywood when it got out three years ago that her male co-stars in American Hustle had been paid more than she had Lawrence wrote an essay blaming herself why not blame the studio they're the ones who didn't pay you because I didn't fight hard enough it was my own mentality that led me to believe that I didn't deserve to be paid equally would you do that again no you feel you know you're worth now I feel I know my worth and I feel like I work to keep it that way does that translate into money and power yeah I can work with directors who I've admired for a very long time and get a screenplay written I have an amazing career bill what you do there's a lot of risks too this is right now this is all very temporary Hollywood is very fickle well you're like the flavor of the month yeah it could be if I if the next few movies don't don't do well in the box office I won't I won't get paid the same that's the way it works if you can't prove that you that you deserve that number then you're not going to get it so it's very fickle so I don't want to sound like I'm on a high horse because I might be on a tiny little Shetland pony in a month in Britain they honored their distinguished actors with royal titles Lord Olivier Dame Helen Mirren the best we can do is nominate them for Oscars an annual hyped up competition for a glossy little statue if we did have a royal list the name of Meryl Streep would surely be at the very top she's won two Oscars been nominated a record 16 times and doubtless will be again for a new film about one of the most controversial political figures of the 20th century Margaret Thatcher in life and on film The Iron Lady this is a day to put differences aside to hold one's head high and take pride in being British the street has a unique gift for not just portraying a character but literally becoming her on the stage of the delacorte theater in New York Central Park where she first starred 35 years ago I asked how real it seems to her whilst he's performing I mean I'm not insane I do know that I'm acting but you forget about it yeah you kind of you know when you're doing it right there's a thrilling suspension of the day-to-day and you're in someone else's head on this day in a London Film Studio that someone else is Margaret Thatcher dancing with a make-believe Ronald Reagan Thatcher's fellow cold warrior there you go again why not it's the latest Twitter for us from Streep a woman of many faces Sophie in Sophie's Choice as Julia Child as The French Lieutenant's Woman as the devil wearing Prada worried about our careers are we and now The Iron Lady we can restore the health of the British economy and we will do just that what particularly attracted you to the Margaret Thatcher role everything just the opportunity to deal with the Deep buried discomfort that people still have men and women with women in leadership positions as British prime minister Thatcher strobe the world stage for more than a decade the [Music] leaving heel prints on the backs of her own conservative parties old boys club did you like her I am in in awe of what she did the policies you can argue with but to sit in the hot seat I I can't even imagine having that steadfastness their stories are both about transformation the actress transforming herself into the politician who transformed herself to out think outwork and outwit the men around her one of the things she did was get a Drama teacher to tell her how to support her voice because her voice was sort of lighter like mine is and um they taught her to support it and bring it up from the depths of her place where the conviction lies and to carry it through without a breath until the end of the thought and then not to give him a chance to interrupt her she was also lover or hater remarkably single-minded and confident that her away was the only way yes I have a lot of that foreign at age 62 Meryl Streep is still at the top of her game one of the recipients at this year's Kennedy Center Honors that's her husband of 33 years sculptor Don Gummer and their children a son and three daughters two of them actresses themselves there's something I want to show you the theory that high school is Destiny we took her back to the days long before she became Merrell of the movies oh this is my high school yearbook picture back then in Bernardsville New Jersey she was just playing Mary Louise Streep well not so plain pretty blonde vivacious cheerleader our homecoming queen where the boys are where the boys oh God bernardian art editor that's what I was and the morning announcer Diane Sawyer eats your heart out home movies made it clear the camera loved her from an early age but the homecoming queen didn't care much for the movies of the day she was fascinated by the Classics there was one channel that had uh older movies and I loved Carol Lombard and I loved Kate Hepburn and Betty Davis and Barbara Stanwick I like girls with attitude you know Moxie there's an old word though she had dabbled in acting she got serious about it at the Yale drama school that led to an audition with a public theater director Joe Papp could be a Taskmaster yes not to me Pap gave her her first break on Broadway a small role in a period piece called trelawny of the wells Joe pep asked you if you could do a Southern accent yes and he said wait try do this uh Southern can you can you do a Southern accent from not even Southern New Jersey you know I pulled it up out of probably some four o'clock movie Somewhere I heard it was from the dinosaur show oh yeah maybe that was it see [Music] remember that yes oh God wasn't she Divine here's where I forgot my lines in the seagull soon she was doing the classics on this outdoor stage competing with airplanes heat rain and more ducks her career took off so fast that one Summer she did Taming of the Shrew here at night hey hey hey hey hey hey and during the day shot two movies Kramer versus Kramer and Woody Allen's Manhattan she was well on her way are you writing a book about our marriage you leave me alone her rage was astonishing one year at Texan Karen silkwood let's not fight the next Danish in Out of Africa has asked me for a divorce he found someone that he wants to marry she wore spandex for Mamma Mia a nun's habit for a doubt amen your clay and a beard playing a rabbi in angels in America it always really bothers me when people imagine that characters that don't look like you or have the same accent as you do are far from you the great actress Sybil Thorndike said I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us and I think we do Vanessa how are you feeling Margaret Thatcher is 86 now her daughter Carol has written openly about her mother's slide into the darkness of dementia the film tackles the issue head on did you have any concerns about showing this once remarkably vital woman having lost it all well that that was the part that most oh intrigued me first of all I don't I don't feel there's any shame in dementia and people that suffer it and you're not prime minister anymore to tell an honest story about a big life in its ebb you have to deal with this part of it there's one observation that gets her back up when people note that she's played a lot of strong-minded women no one has ever asked an actor you're playing a strong-minded man we assume that men are strong-minded or have opinions but a strong-minded woman is a different animal she's the public face of a movement to build a national women's history museum in Washington Margaret Thatcher said if you if you want something spoken about ask a man if you want it done ask a woman the museum near the National Mall would showcase little-known stories about women in America wandering the Massachusetts Countryside not far from her home she insisted on taking us to the scene of one such story clearing the brush so our camera Crews wouldn't trip look in that window it's the house where in 1781 a slave called mumbet intervened when a young slave girl was threatened by the lady of the house and she took a red hot uh fireplace shovel and tried to strike the child and mumbat saved the little girl and burned her arm all the way up the arm and that was the last straw sheet remember that suit in court and gained her Freedom taking the new name Elizabeth Freeman the case led to the abolition of slavery in the state by 1790 the census recorded no enslaved people in Massachusetts for women in Hollywood Street is an exception to the rule that most leading ladies have a short shelf life four of her most recent films have been directed by women but one thing that drives her crazy is the snail's pace of movie making shooting the same scene time and time again I don't like to go over things and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again I don't like that that happens a lot though it doesn't in movies yeah but I get I guess I have less tolerance for I like movies that have little budget and so they can't do that do you think that movies are better getting better than when you started I think the acting's better I think the acting is better than in the classic days frankly of movies but if you look at the movies being made the big movies that are being made are are about comic strips well I don't see those Empires or or gross Behavior yeah uh all aimed at what 18 year old boys yes that's called the narrowing of the audience the movie business has worked assiduously to discourage you and other intelligent Discerning people from the theater from the movie theater they have worked hard to get rid of you because you don't go then buy toys and games and then there's this creep Enigma that hint of a Mona Lisa smile or as the Italians call the painting la giacanda Jack Nicholson says of you it's the jiganda smile the mystery of Meryl that appeals is that a snake what is a diaconda no no you think it's an anaconda it's the Mona Lisa okay fine sorry all that education down the drain okay fine I thought what does he mean it's good to have something that is undiscoverable which frankly I think every human being has I don't think I'm that mysterious but I'm glad he thinks so we'll soon know what audiences and Oscar voters think of Scripps portrayal the actress the prime minister no doubt at odds politically but each compelled to leave their Mark to brilliant performers to Sisters under the skin did you discover anything of yourself in her no what do you mean yes of course my dutifulness my desire to work hard my desire to be to do the right thing to you know be a good girl all those things I think she grew up with and so did I every once in a while you draw the short story here at 60 Minutes this time we were told to spend a few days with a woman who is often called the most beautiful woman in the world Angelina Jolie she may well be the most photographed the most recognizable and the highest paid actress in Hollywood she's certainly the number one target for paparazzi everywhere and that's how many Americans know her from the tabloids as wild weird and eccentric but the Angelina we met was quite different from all that for starters she just wrote and directed a film about a very serious topic it'll be released next month and she doesn't even appear in it for the first time Angelina has moved behind the camera where she says she feels more comfortable we linked up with her in the indisputably beautiful city of Budapest which is where she shot most of her film In the Land of Blood and Honey we came here to Budapest for Logistics and for financial reasons because we're a tiny movie and we got here it may be a tiny movie but look at it it's about a heavy subject the war in Bosnia which was fought in the early 90s killed at least a hundred thousand people and brought ethnic cleansing to Europe for the first time since Hitler what did your friends and colleagues say when you said hey I'm going to direct a film about the war in Bosnia I think people that really know me weren't surprised but I think they all thought it was a bit crazy I think everybody still thinks it's a big you know it's an it's not uh I still think it's crazy you could have done a light comedy or an action flick I think I'd be terrible with a comedy there's certainly no humor in this movie about a Muslim woman named Islam who starts to fall in love with a Serb named Daniel after the war breaks out bosnians are rounded up and locked up by the serbs and Daniel is served Captain becomes Isla's jailer this is a gorgeous building it is a gorgeous building you made horrible things happen inside here and beautiful things but yes Angelina shot the jail scenes in this Budapest Museum and she relied heavily on her actors they all come from the former Yugoslavia she let them rewrite scenes and they speak the native language in the film which will be released with English subtitles Angelina said she wanted to make the film as realistic as possible we all spoke about every speech every scene and made sure that it was right and true so everybody helped to educate me and and we all adjusted the script together can you see yeah while we were there Angelina gave the cast a sneak preview of the film's trailer and they thought it reflected the reality of their War Goran kostich and Zana marianovich play the two lovers people I know and my friends and their families never thought in their life that everything they had could be taken away from them it goes to the core of who I am and what I am and what we are I suppose it's very personal others might find the plot implausible an affair between a Muslim prisoner and the Serb commandant of the prison where women are getting raped every day some Bosnian women who'd been through that found the film objectionable the Bosnian government temporarily withdrew Angelina's permit to shoot there you walked into a Minefield and when you were writing the script did you realize that every step you took there was a mind in your way I didn't know it was going to be as uh as sensitive everything everything was a was something to be very careful about and sensitive but Angelina says remember it's a movie a love story not a documentary there's a lot of heart there's also a lot of brutality there's a lot of it a lot more than there ever was in a film that you accident yeah am I making you nervous she has acted in more than 30 Films and her first ones like Gia about a drug-addicted fashion model felt edgy and real Angelina whose actor parents broke up before she was one experimented with drugs and a few other things early in her life she said she used those experiences to get into her roles it's good to be home she won an Oscar for her chilling portrait of a schizophrenic in Girl Interrupted later she switched gears as Laura Croft a character from a video game in Tomb Raider the dodging bullets and played a spy Mrs Smith for Brad Pitt's Mr Smith you were once asked if you wanted to play a Bond girl and you said nope you wanted to play Bond well you didn't play Bond but you played a bond like character in salt is that one of your Ambitions to punch through these gender stereotypes it's not something I intentionally did but when it comes my way it's and I'm aware of it was really fun to do especially because I just had kids I just had my twins and I'd been in a nightgown for about seven months and I felt like I felt like getting up and punching something her favorite movie was not an action flick but a tragedy based on a true story in a mighty heart Angelina plays Marion Pearl the Widow of Daniel Pearl The Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan no that was a moment I'll never forget that was the hardest thing yeah as an actress that was the hardest thing many of her films earned her more money than praise critics have often been tough but some directors Rave about her Clint Eastwood said she's a great talent hampered only by the fact that she has quote the most gorgeous face on the planet that face has sold a lot of Handbags and magazines but early on Angelina Jolie flirted with a very different career you wanted to be a funeral director I did and you even took courses to prepare yourself it sounds like this very strange eccentric dark thing to do but in fact I lost my grandfather and I was very upset with his funeral and so we discussed that maybe there are ways where this whole idea of how somebody passes and how a family deals with this passing and what death is should be addressed in a different way um if this acting thing didn't work out that that was going to be going back up she can joke about it now but there were other times scary and dangerous times that she told us were not funny at all I went through heavy darker times and I survived them I didn't die young so I'm very lucky there are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things talk about heavy darker times what are you referring to I was hoping you'd miss that nothing I want to go into a lot of detail about but I think people can imagine that I did the most dangerous and I did the worst and I met for many reasons I shouldn't be here it's a very provocative phrase for many reasons well sir you just you just think that those too many times where you came close to too many dangerous things too many chances taken too too far her odd behavior was out there for everyone to see the intimate way she kissed her brother in public the vials of blood she and her second husband Billy Bob Thornton wore around their necks Angelina acknowledges she's taken quite a walk on the wild side but says she's moved on I'm Angie the reason dear she has been traveling the world as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN she's visited more than 20 countries primarily to work with refugees it used to be a pretty bad girl now you are a un Ambassador you are a member of the Council on Foreign Relations you're a humanitarian activist do you ever miss being a bad girl I'm still a bad girl yeah you know I still have that side of me that is it's just it's in its place now it belongs it you know belongs to Brad or it belongs to our adventures Angelina and Brad Pitt have had three children together she also adopted three from three different countries Cambodian Ethiopia and Vietnam the tabloids have the couple splitting up one week getting married the next Angelina told us they have no plans to get married the vast majority of Americans know you because you're on the cover of magazines every week and every time they go to a supermarket they see you what are they missing I don't know what they are but I assume I assume they're not me they're not who I am they're not what I spend my day caring about I find them quite shallow and often very wrong when I do hear about what they are but they make it impossible for her to do anything in public even in Budapest we could only lunch with her in the private room of a restaurant when you're Angelina jolido there's no such thing as private take her tortured relationship with her father the actor Jon Voight he actually went on television and said his daughter had serious mental problems that even shocked Hollywood for years Angelina refused to talk to her father after her mother died she started seeing him again but she gives her mother Marceline Bertrand all the credit for where she is today beautiful woman she is they're pretty chipping can you I was all cheeks yeah big lips Angelina also says it was her mom who taught her how to raise her own kids at the house Angelina's renting in Budapest we weren't allowed to film her children unless you call Jacques one of her kids he seemed to love the camera almost as much as the camera loves Angelina he likes you you're here because Brad is shooting a film here you're not shooting a film no we never work at the same time what's better when Brad is working and you're with the kids when you're working Brothers with the kids when I'm home with the kids but a lot of full-time parents would love to be shooting movies yes they would because it's easier my mother was it was a full-time mother she didn't have much of her her own career her own life her own experiences her own you know everything was for her children and you try to be the same kind of man that she was I will never be as good a mother as she was I would try my best but I don't think I could ever be she was she was just Grace incarnate she was the most generous loving he's better than me it's clear that you can talk about anything but your mother without dwelling up yeah that's my that's my soft spot Angelina's biggest regret is that her mother won't be there for the premiere of in the Land of Blood and Honey a film she suspects won't have the Commercial Appeal of anything she's done it's going to open soon yeah nervous I am nervous that people are going to not understand it right now if you had to decide that in six months you're going to either act in a film or director film or to do I'd prefer directing yeah yeah I loved having the spotlight on somebody else and I would much prefer it Angelina's already writing and planning to direct Another War film about Afghanistan and she knows as a director her beauty and her acting skills won't be worth a nickel it's nice it's nice for all of that not to matter it's also risky is it I mean I think what's risky is living your life and and never trying for anything and never doing something Brave and never getting yourself scared and are you scared the story of a child star done in by Fame is as old as Hollywood itself but the story of a child star from one of America's greatest acting families who nearly destroys herself then bounces back to become not just a leading lady but a major film producer well that story belongs only to Drew Barrymore she was famous by seven abusing drugs by 11 and at 15 was washed up and on her own she may have come from acting royalty but in many ways she was an orphan a wild child raised by Crews on movie sets she's 34 now and though she still sometimes talks like a teenager she's become one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood succeeding far beyond what anyone could have predicted how did she do it that's what we wanted to find out we met up with Drew Barrymore on Broadway in New York at the height of afternoon rush hour she stopped traffic do you feel comfortable in New York I feel very comfortable in New York it's been a while but a Barrymore on Broadway was something generations of New Yorkers were once used to so the Barrymore theater I can't believe we're going here this Broadway Theater is named for her great aunt Ethel a legendary stage actress in the early 1900s you have the same profile yeah we we think weird profile it's a good profile I I don't want to be too self-congratulatory about it I just love the fact that we have this sort of family stamp that Barrymore stamp gray silver screens from silent movies through the 1940s her great Anne Ethel and her grandfather John Barrymore were considered the greatest actors of their generation may I say Drew's great uncle Lionel was a famous character actor who will forever be known as the Sinister Banker Potter in It's a Wonderful Life you once called me a warped frustrated old man acting has been the family business for hundreds of years going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore and and and this just it was such a sort of circus of odd interesting people that loved acting their Baron Wars have been acting since George III was in power the like the 14th century it dates back to the family tree and I thought well I'm not crazy if I feel this magnetic bloodline pull to do this thing it's going to get you thrown she felt the pull as a child but she'd been pushed into the business long before that that's true when she was just 11 months old starring in a commercial for dog food her big break however came at the age of six and the Blockbuster hit E.T [Music] feeling Gertie made her an international star movie audiences love the precocious Gertie and so did director Steven Spielberg who drew calls her Godfather you know I've always said about about drew that she's you know she's tenaciously optimistic and and and you know and she had really the kind of imagination that not only invited E.T into a reality within herself but it invited all of us to believe that what Drew was seeing was true on the set between takes seven-year-old Drew used to talk with E.T she'd tell him her secrets I liked hanging out with him and I would bring him lunch and put a little handkerchief around his neck but you knew he was fake I knew he was fake but that red Beating Heart just said so much to me and I don't know I just felt like I could talk to him I just wanted to see goodbye it turns out the little girl with the famous family was pretty much on her own her father an actor who struggled with drugs and alcohol was rarely around Drew's mom who also acted had to work to support them both on the movie Set Drew says she finally found a home when I did ET it sort of solidified like the only family I know are these film Crews these gypsies these filmmakers that was the solidification and the clicking revelation of this is what I want to do with my life and this is this is where I'm gonna survive it was a family it was the perfect family so what's it like when a movie's over that was the devastating part was just okay it's over how do you keep this going because the family moves on yep people get other jobs yeah there were plenty of other acting jobs for Drew after E.T but there were plenty of other Temptations as well her mom became her manager but neither She nor her child seemed very much in control by nine Drew and her mom were regulars at nightclubs in Los Angeles and New York you had no discipline as a kid none No Authority none no no no parental Authority telling you this is right this is wrong quite the opposite it was more like can you get me into that club it was very excessive and wild and hedonistic when did you start smoking when I was nine nine yeah not not something I'm proud of at all when did you take your first drink uh somewhere around that same time I thought the two went really nicely together and how about marijuana 11. who gave you a joint at age 11. my friend's mom actually just to make it sound even crazier yeah she was just I was raised around you know hippies cocaine 12. a 12 year old doing cocaine I mean I know it's nuts some people don't don't survive though that that that experience phase yeah I mean I just I also don't think that it has to be so heavy you know it's like oh it's just so tragic no it wasn't it was like it was an extraordinary experience I went through it and I learned a lot and did I learn it in front of everyone which was righteously embarrassing sure but you know what made me stronger it may have made her stronger but at the time it wasn't clear she'd get through it at the age of 13 she was forced into rehab and ended up in treatment on and off for more than a year when you were in rehab your dad called you but but he was calling to ask you for money great dad [Laughter] um yeah yeah he would ask me for money on birthdays and you know an inappropriate times and then I just wrote him off like you're not a father I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable she'd also learned that she could legally separate herself from her parents she discovered that from of all places a movie she starred in it was called irreconcilable differences the reason I went until lower to divorce my parents because I can't take living with either one of them anymore at 15 out of rehab Drew Barrymore petitioned the state of California to emancipate herself arguing she'd be better off without her mother and father the court agreed and she was on her own I did what I had to do to get there which was played by the rules and refigure out my life and disconnect myself from the people I knew and the lifestyle I knew and you know prove that I was a responsible citizen with a good head on my shoulders and I did and therefore I was rewarded by being emancipated you get your own apartment yeah signed your own lease yes you got a job yes what kind of a job I worked at a coffee house called the living room and my boss just hated me he was just like please at one point he was like go live your dreams and get out of my shop her agents told her she was overweight and unemployable but she missed acting and missed the impromptu families that film sets create I missed my tribe and I was really alone out there and so I just started going on auditions again it took her years of TV movies and small roles and low budget films but Drew Barrymore won Hollywood and audiences back her quirky sense of humor and girl next door appeal have made her a leading lady in a number of hugely successful romantic comedies people seem to root for her no matter what the film is no matter what role she's in or what she's doing well you know it's very easy to root for the little girl in E.T and that little girl has grown up but she's still the same character that she was in E.T you know she just has a kind of she casts a spell unlike many Hollywood leading ladies she's remarkably approachable on screen and off she never seems afraid to reveal too much even if she sometimes goes too far about that eye-popping late night appearance in 1995 she says she has no regrets I felt like pan I was like I don't know you know in the forest thinking that life was some hippie nudist colony you know get on David Letterman's desk and just be free and have fun and that's just who I was that is still part of who she is but in Hollywood she's increasingly taken seriously as an actor and a producer she or she was nominated for an Emmy playing eccentric socialite Edie Beale a woman made famous by The 1975 documentary gray Gardens this is the real Edie Beale it's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present do you know what I mean it's awful difficult and this is Drew Barrymore's portrayal it's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present awfully difficult as a producer Drew has made movies that have grossed more than 900 million dollars the walls of a Hollywood office are covered with photos and movie Stills she uses for inspiration they just constantly remind me of what it is I'm trying to do her latest focus is directing Right Where You Are her directorial debut is a film called whip it an unusual coming-of-age story set in the world of Texas roller derby the little girl who grew up on movie sets is now in charge of them you've created your own family absolutely and at the chance to do that it's her friends who are now her family many of them work with Drew on all her films she currently isn't speaking with her own mother and hasn't for a long time she reconciled with her father shortly before he died in 2004. there are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know a safer healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves I am so lucky to live the life that I do

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Published: Sat Jan 14 2023