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30th August, 2010
After feeding the rumor mills with their on-off relationship, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are back together starring in the upcoming release “Going the Distance,” about the difficulties of long distance love affairs.
Barrymore, 35, told a press conference in Beverly Hills about the film opening September 3, in which she stars as Erin, an aspiring journalist.
“Erin is a very strong girl; she can go to bars and win at video games and hang with the boys. But she put a relationship ahead of her dreams before and resented it,” she added.
Barrymore said she loves doing romantic comedies and that taking inspiration from their personal lives and relationship helped her and Long make “Going the Distance” more believable.
In the movie, Erin and Garrett (Long) meet and fall in love one night in a Manhattan bar. They live in New York and San Francisco and have to somehow navigate their bicoastal relationship around six hours’ flying time.
Barrymore plays a recently graduated journalist, a profession oft-seen among young women in Hollywood romantic movies these days. She and Garrett, an aspiring musician, struggle to find meaningful jobs while trying to keep their relationship together.
“I?d been reading a lot of romantic comedies, and this one really stood out for me in the sense that it was much more raw and realistic, and very funny, too. It didn?t hold back at all,” said Long, 32.
Long and Barrymore first went out together while shooting “He’s Just Not That Into You” (2007).
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