Divorce left Barrymore in a ‘dark place’
los Angeles: Hollywood star Drew Barrymore says her divorce from Will Kopelman left her in a “dark and fearful place”. The 43-year-old year-old actor, who split from the Kopelman in 2016, has revealed she came out of her slump after being offered a role in the Netflix series “Santa Clarita Diet”. The duo have daughters Olive, five, and Frankie, three, together. “I was not looking for a job. I had actually stopped acting for several years because I wanted to raise my kids. But then a shift happened in my life and I was separating from their father and it was just a very difficult time. “I definitely personally was in a very dark and fearful place and then this script came along and I was like, ‘Yeah I don’t think this is a good time’ and ironically, I think it taught me a valuable life lesson,” Barrymore told NBC. The actor said her role on the series has made things better for her. “Sometimes when you think something is the worst timing and the worst idea, it can actually become the thing that saves you and pulls you out and gives you a new focus, and empowerment, and switches your constant stuck way of thinking and feeling and puts it into something else that might actually get you to a healthier place faster,” she added.
Reese Withespoon likes to work on ‘universal and relatable’ films
london: Actor-producer Reese Witherspoon has said that she wants to explore different aspects of “female experience” in her films. The “Big little lies” star, who has produced projects such as “Gone Girl” and “Wild”, said she looks for stories that are “universal and relatable”, FemaleFirst reported. “I try to find thing that are universal and relatable. My main directive has been, have a woman at the centre of it telling another aspect of the female experience. ‘Gone Girl’ was like, ‘Is she psychoticIJ I don’t know.’ But it’s something that took an idea of the perfect girl and flipped it on its head,” Witherspoon said. “With ‘Wild’, I loved the idea of a woman versus nature, you see man versus nature all the time,” she added. The 42-year-old actor believes that it is still difficult for women to front films in Hollywood. “I have to say, when I started it was a good time for women’s movies too. Women were the stars of their own movies. I got in a window where I made ‘legally Blonde’ and ‘Sweet Home Alabama’. “I could be the lead. It’s harder now. You don’t often see women being the star of movies.
I had people say to me, ‘We have one movie that has a woman starring in it this year.’ We don’t need another,” Witherspoon said.