Whip It
Drew Barrymore insists that her new movie is not a chick flick.
The actress turns director this week as she steps behind the camera for the first time with movie Whip It, which she also stars in and produces.
In an interview with The Press Association the actress said: "I'm a woman so I'm going to make stories about women because I understand them, but I'm also a boy and I can't stand the term 'chick flick'
"That turns me off. I'm as turned off by that as any guy because I am a 'dude'.
"I have a very male mentality - the comedy in the film is not little girl comedy. It's boy comedy, it's androgynous comedy."
And the actress also encouraged the studio to market this movie at a male, as well as a female, audience.
"It was upsetting to have a studio put out, 'It's a roller derby movie'. I kept encouraging them to market to boys and men, because there was a sports element and when I go to roller derby games, there are a lot of males.
"They love the sexiness, the raunchiness and the fun-ness of these girls beating the c**p out of each other."
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