Drew Barrymore graces the April 2009 cover of Niche Media’s Gotham magazine. The 34-year-old actress spent last three months preparing for a role (Little Edie) in HBO’s upcoming Grey Gardens. Check full story for interview highlights and pictures!

“I didn’t speak on the phone or watch television or read the newspaper and BlackBerry or speak to my family or one friend for three months… I felt I had to isolate myself. It was really painful for me not to have contact with the people I love. I felt like it would be fraudulent to talk on a cell phone- ‘Like, yeah, I’ll call you back in a second’- and walk back on set and pretend I’m this person who wouldn’t even know what a cell phone was.” – said Drew.

“I felt I had to isolate myself,” Drew says in an interview with the May issue of Gotham Magazine. “It was really painful for me not to have contact with the people I love. I felt like it would be fraudulent to talk on a cell phone — ‘Like, yeah, I’ll call you back in a second’ — and walk back on set and pretend I’m this person who wouldn’t even know what a cell phone was.”

“I try to realize what and who’s important. What’s important is being good to people I love and earning their respect and being available to them physically and emotionally. That’s my biggest and only priority, and the rest of it you just can’t control.” – she concluded.