At long last we have a trailer from Whip It, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut about a girl (Ellen Page) who doesn’t want to be in beauty pageants so she joins the roller derby.
Bliss (Page) tries out as Babe Ruthless for a team named the Hurl Scouts, where she hopes to skate alongside the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig) and Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore). The movie also features Marcia Gay Harden as Bliss’ disapproving mother, and Jimmy Fallon as a hungover announcer named Hot Tub Johnny [if the name sounds familiar it's because Andrew Dice Clay used to talk about a guy named Hot Tub Johnny West a lot]. [via /Film]
Anyway, you can tell it’s about teenage rebellion because all the girls wear plaid skirts, and plaid skirts = subverting the dominant paradigm. “Find your tribe,” reads the title card. Because that’s what rebellion is; you find some people you think are cool and then try to dress and act just like them. Like when I used to rub dirt on my face and yell “Look, I’m Mexican!” Okay, bad example.
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…the camera. USA Today just premiered the first publicity stills from Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, Whip It, based on the book Derby Girl. She’ll also act in the film, playing Smashley Simpson, alongside Kristen Wiig as Maggie Mayhem, Death Proof’s Zoe Bell as Bloody Holly, Juliette Lewis as Iron Maven, Eve, and Ellen Page.
Page plays a 17-year-old Texas girl named Bliss Cavendar, who hates the beauty pageants her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) makes her compete in and finds a release for her secret aggressive side by joining the underground world of roller derby.
“Everything I’ve learned throughout my whole life, whether it was going to a museum or listening to a certain song, has been going into this piggy bank, and I just smashed it all over the floor for this one,” Barrymore says. [more pics available at USA Today]
Look, I’ll freely admit that 85% of the reason I hate Drew Barrymore is that her speech impediment weirds me out, but I’ll still bet most of my bank account that Drew’s idea of girl power and rebellion is gonna be a lot like an Avril Lavigne song. She’s just a sk8r gurl, she said see ya l8r gurrl….
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