Barrymore has made 40 movies since then, and when she says, “I have red carpet tonight,” it’s with the nonchalance of a camper announcing that she has kickball after lunch. The occasion is the premiere of He’s Just Not That Into You, featuring a clutch of stars, among them Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson. Barrymore plays a woman who can’t get a date, though offscreen, her romantic life is one of the most chronicled in the world. (DREW BARRYMORE SAYS TONGUE RING SCARES OFF MEN screamed a headline after she dished on Ellen in February.) “She loves being in love and talking about it,” says Juvonen. “She’s like, ‘Can you believe it? He touched my hair!’”
Barrymore has been married twice—for eight weeks to bar owner Jeremy Thomas in 1994, and for five months to comedian Tom Green in 2001. For five years, until 2007, she went out with New York rocker Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes, which was “one of the most, if not the most, important relationships I’ve had in my life,” says the actress. “We’re still very close. I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.”
For her next project, Barrymore will produce How to Be Single, based on the chick-lit novel of the same name. And she has been single herself since last June, when she split with Long, another He’s Just Not That Into You costar, though at the premiere they embraced warmly on the red carpet, to the delight of the paparazzi. Looking chic in a strapless Lanvin cocktail dress, her hair pulled back into a glamorous fall, she seemed utterly at home. While the other stars went through their paces—Ben Affleck, for one, dutifully posed for pictures, then powered to the end of the line, ignoring press entreaties of “Ben! Please! Just a wave?”—Barrymore breezily chatted up reporters, even circling back to take questions from those she overlooked.
If, in her romantic life, Barrymore is still finding her way, professionally she’s clearly arrived. The challenges of the past three years have convinced even her of that. “I’m finally like, I can do these things,” she says. “Now I can start to experience more joy and not be so worried all the time—that would be a really important liberation for me.”
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