Drew Barrymore Drug Abuse: Drew Barrymore in Alaska

Drew Barrymore’s three months long experience shooting Big Miracle was more like “into the Zen” than into the wild. Usually an Alaskan adventure summons up images of snowmobiles, bears and crashing glaciers. Barrymore said “I’m a Cali-girl through and through, but was it just nice feeling when not to be in the busy rush of Los Angeles,” her stint in Anchorage, where she shunned Internet and emails in favour of letter-writing and reading. Shooting for the film took place in the fall of 2010, and it could not have come at a good moment for Drew Barrymore who has been a support of pop culture for three (3) decades.

“There’s a book called Slowing Down to the Speed of Life, and there’s something about that title that totally rang true about this experience,” says Barrymore. “It’s hard to check out of your life for three solid months. It’s even harder when you get older. But I really did dive in.”

Perhaps “dive out” would be a better term. In Big Miracle, a thrilling retelling story of the 1988 attempt to save three gray whales trapped by ice near the Arctic Circle, Barrymore plays a Greenpeace activist. In two years, it is Barrymore’s first big-screen acting venture and will likely be her last for a while as there are no other firm projects lined up.

I’ve done all of this for thirty five (35) years,” Barrymore says of her career. “I think maybe it’s OK to put the life first for a minute. I don’t really know this feeling. It’s new and exciting.”

In the end, Barrymore began her big screen appearance at age 11 months when she first appeared in a dog meal commercial ad.

Since finding child stardom after 1982’s E.T.: The extra terrestrial, she had a famously chaotic teenage years that ultimately made way for a mature career that saw her move to rom-com queen (The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates).

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