VIDEO: Drew & Justin Dish on Bad Romantic Gestures
Sep. 1 2010, Published 10:31 a.m. ET
One element that Drew Barrymore and Justin Long's characters use in Going the Distance to make their long-distance relationship work is romantic gestures. But sometimes those don't quite go as planned.
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Drew and Justin — on-again, off-again real life couple — sat down and thought of some bad romantic gestures they've experiences in their own lives. Of course, we're assuming they weren't talking about each other!
"I once got sent an e-mail that was written in a sarcastic tone, but the person buried the lead and didn't say he was joking," Drew old MTV News of a love letter from an ex. "So everything in it was as horrible as you can imagine. That wasn't funny. That was a really poorly executed romantic gesture.
"I remember another boyfriend, he bought me a cameo silhouette pendant, and he said it reminded him of me," Drew added. "And I thought, 'This old, silhouetted lady reminds you of me? Huh. OK.' "
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Instead of sharing what others have done wrong, Justin admitted to what he's done wrong in executing a romantic gesture.
"This was actually a Valentine's Day thing," he said. "I went to the florist, and I saw these amazing orchids. There were, like, six orchids. It was tons of money ... but I thought, 'I'm going to do it. These are beautiful, and I'm pretty sure this person loves orchids.'"
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"I brought them home," he continued. "She was always so appreciative of just the smallest gestures I did, so I was like, 'Her head's going to explode.'"
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But that wasn't the case!
"She was like he winces 'I ... oh ... thank you,'" Justin re-enacted. "She had this story that was like a really troubling, traumatic experience that had happened to her that involved orchids that she had told me."
"I knew there was something with orchids, I just didn't remember that it was an awful association. It was bad. She was molested by a guy named Fred Orchid," he joked.
Check out the interview below!
Going the Distance opens in theaters Friday!