It's surprising, perhaps, this lack of ambivalence, given Barrymore's background – the child labour years, the teenage addiction and rehab, and her parents, both actors (her grandfather was John Barrymore), from whom she sought legal emancipation when she was in her mid-teens, or, as she summarises that era, "everyone goes through shit".
As I've gotten older I've laid it out there less at times in my career" – she lets out a tight laugh – "but now I'm just like, 'Here it is, here's my story.' You can relate because everybody goes through shit".
Everyone's going through shit with their family, it's just at different levels, you know what I mean?
A few years ago, one of my best gay friends and I stopped hanging out so much because we were both going through shit and whenever we saw each other, it felt like we were looking into a cracked mirror.
He's definitely going through some shit, and you would be to if you got injured so badly you couldn't perform at your job for a year.
"If I died, or if I had to go through a shit bag — you know, where you get shot in the stomach and you can't shit regular, got to wear the bag — they'd be playing me like crazy," he said, still incredulous.
Sometimes you'll get a nice view from a train window, but then the same train goes through miles and miles of shit.
"There are people who go through this shit every day, and people turn a blind eye," says Haze. "They're too scared to say what happened to them.
I can't go through this shit.
You make the audience go through that shit, and it's a fucking catharsis for all, not just the character.
