It’s a generally accepted fact that everyone who works with Drew Barrymore loves Drew Barrymore (or marries her, as was the case with her Charlie’s Angels costar Tom Green).
 
“Drew makes you feel like she doesn’t want to be talking to anyone else in the world when she’s with you,” Debra Messing tells this month’s InStyle, which put Drew on its cover. The two got to know each other on the set of their new film Lucky You.
 
Hugh Grant, her costar in Music and Lyrics By, adds: “She jokes around like a 24-year-old rugby player. Frankly, she makes me feel like a demure spinster.”
 
The down-to-earth star, who pulls in $15 million a movie, still takes the subway (“It’s economical”) and makes her own clothes, talks to the mag about her biological clock and her dark side.
 
On wanting to be a mother:
“I definitely feel the beginnings of a ticktock. Whether I have children or adopt – whatever form a family comes in, I would absolutely love to have it.”
 
On body image:
“You learn to love your own body. You can’t look at models and feel bad about yourself. I’m not the kind of girl who can stuff her face with pasta all the time and not gain weight. I’ve been running and doing yoga and Pilates, and I love the way it makes my mind and body feel. But I really don’t obsess about it. When I finish a film I often just let it all go and indulge myself. Enjoying food is such an important part of life.”
 
On being a nightowl:
“I like eating dinner at 10:30 p.m., going for a drink at midnight, and rolling home at 4 a.m. And when I get off from a night shoot at 6 in the morning, there’s still life around. I don’t feel like some isolated weirdo. This city lives 24 hours a day.”
 
On her domestic side (and lack thereof):
“I get into household chores – doing laundry and scrubbing the bathroom. I can’t cook. Fab [Moretti, her boyfriend] makes a few things but mostly we order in.”
 
On getting away from doing romantic comedies:
“I need to try different things now. I’m growing up, so I want to grow in my work. I’m ready to tap into the darkness. As much light as I have inside me, there’s just as much darkness, I’m afraid. There’s a polarity, and I still have demons to work out.”