Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Barrymore doesn't like high-tech dating

|
|
 
  
Drew Barrymore, a cast member in the motion picture comedy "He's Just Not That Into You", arrives for the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on February 2, 2009. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) 
License photo
Published: Feb. 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore says that like her character in "He's Just Not That Into You" she isn't a fan of technology when it comes to dating.

"I wanted to make (my character) the one who is dismayed by technology and it was just a perfect fit for me. I just really liked her. Everything happens organically for a reason, so I felt like a Mary, my character," Barrymore -- who also served as a producer on the film -- told reporters in Los Angeles recently.

"I still have a wall phone and I love tape and shoot on film, so this whole 'you're in your pocket and you have to respond immediately and be quirky and quippy…' No guys call any more; it's all texts," Barrymore lamented. "I'm awkward enough on the phone. I'm awkward answering this question. It's really difficult and I wanted to discuss that in the film. It's so important in our day and age of Facebook and MySpace and the Internet and texting. It's just a new ballgame, so I wanted to address that."

The ensemble comedy, which co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Justin Long, Ginnifer Goodwin, Bradley Cooper, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly and Kevin Connolly, opens in U.S. theaters Friday.

Topics: Drew Barrymore
Recommended Stories
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
The $77 million cow pasture: "They were going to build a city. There should have been roads. There...
Police officer breaks into neighbor's home to do laundry. Fails to make a clean getaway
Florida saved 61 children from death by abuse and neglect.... by narrowing its definitions of abuse...
I have no idea what you're talking about, here's a senior citizen in a chair floating above the...
Memorial Day: how it's changed, and why some people think it should not be part of a three-day weekend...
Born in Malaysia in 1923, after 3 years as a Japanese POW during WWII, 3 years fighting for the...