Drew Barrymore: ‘Roller Derby is Scary as S**t”
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Drew Barrymore says roller derby is “scary as s**t”.
The actress’ new movie Whip It — which she directs and stars in — is about the roller skating contact sport, and she admits she had no idea how brutal the sport could be.
“What I love about the sport is that it’s real and high stakes,” the Hollywood beauty told Time Out New York magazine “And by the way, it’s scary as s**t to do. I wouldn’t have guessed that the first film I directed would have a sports element, but then again it doesn’t surprise me, because I love girls getting to do what boys do.
“I love when women get to be women and not feel like they have to become a man in order to play in a man’s world.”
Roller derby involves a team of players skating around an oval track and attempting to lap each other, although they often bump and jostle one another out of the way.
Drew, 34, recently revealed she turns into a “feisty little boy” when she’s had too much to drink.
“We discovered at a bar one night that I definitely have that, like, feisty little boy inside of me, and when I drink he comes out,” she said.
“I love when [women] get to be women and not feel like they have to become a man in order to play in a man’s world.
“I’ve always found that I tend to rebel against authority.
“I hate dictatorship, I hate hierarchy, I hate sidelines.”
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