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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We got a couple of gallery goodies for you today that I’m sure you all will enjoy. Loads of new outtakes from the photoshoot Drew did for Nylon Magazine have been added to the gallery thanks to Andee. Also uploaded to the gallery are a few more outtakes from the Vs. Magazine and Timeout New York shoot. Check them out in the gallery while I’ll upload clips from last night’s SNL to the site.

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009: Set 091 – Nylon Magazine
015: Set 095 – Vs. Magazine
003: Set 092 – Time Out New York

The photoshoot Drew did for last night’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, has finally been posted on the show’s official website and can now be viewed in our gallery. Enjoy!

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008: Set 094 – SNL Promo Shoot

UHQ outtakes of the underwater photoshoot (+studio) that Drew did for ELLE US has been released and added to the gallery thanks to Fever to Fate. They’re absolutely breathtaking, aren’t they? I also finally managed to get scans from Instyle Magazine up in the gallery and credit for those goes to finchesthalia. Enjoy!

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008: Set 093 – Elle US
007: Instyle Magazine – October 2009

Last month, Drew was featured in Time Out New York. The outtakes, which most of them are taken by Drew herself (including photos of other people, but only the ones of her have been added to the gallery), have been posted on the magazine’s official website (with the interview) and are now available in our gallery. Enjoy!

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003: Set 092 – Time Out New York

Drew, what was your focus for these photos?
Summer in Manhattan and Brooklyn. I love that guy and his doggie. He was just doing his thing—nothing was posed.

Was he like, “Holy shit, Drew Barrymore is taking my photo”?
He was very cool about it. He was like, “Can you e-mail me that?” [Laughs] And I was like, Oh my God, I just wanted to go back to film cameras, ’70s-old-school guy with a purple mohawk, and then the guy’s like, “Can you e-mail me?”! It was a funny moment of, oh, technology.

And who were the ladies in the lawn chairs?
I just walked by that moment, and I envied them because they seemed so happy! I asked, “Can I take your photo?” I am really respectful about taking people’s photos.

Do unto others, huh?
Yeah, it’s ironic. I do wish that was the way people treated me when it comes to photography. It’s more like, “Can you bend over? We’re about to anally probe you.” [Laughs]

Tell me about the shot of yourself in the mirror.
I was in a bathroom at the Half King. Nanette Burstein [director of Barrymore’s forthcoming Going the Distance] is one of the owners of the bar. We went to do some script stuff over cocktails there—great working environment! I loved the tiles in there and I loved the mirror, and I often think after a few cocktails you get loose and stop thinking and start feeling.

Cute bow tie.
It’s my new thing! It makes me happy. It can definitely go asshole, but it can also be a fabric smile.

Which is harder—being behind a crappy disposable camera or a big fancy director’s camera?
They are so different. But I’ve always been in love with capturing a moment. It’s a stamp. It leaves you with a punching impression, and that’s what I’m in love with.

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The first outtake from the photoshoot Drew did for the October issue of Nylon Magazine (check out the previous post for scans), has been released and is now available in the gallery. More outtakes will be added as they come in. Enjoy!

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001: Set 091 – Nylon Magazine

Two Four more outtakes from the cover shoot Drew did for Parade Magazine earlier this year have been added to the gallery. This is definitely one of my favorite photoshoots so I’ll try to use them in the layout for the soon-to-be-launched media section. Enjoy!

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002: Set 089 – Parade Magazine

Additional outtakes from the LA Times photoshoot Drew did last month are now available in the gallery. Only one of them is untagged but I’m working on getting the other ones untagged as well. Still worth to take a look at though, enjoy! Thanks to Sinem for the pics.

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004: Set 087 – LA Times Blog