The "He's Just Not That Into You" Cast Spills All

With texting and face-booking mixing with the usual time-honored mis-reads we all have in relationships, it's no wonder modern couples have a problem meeting, then forming and sticking to a love relationship. Who feels that they can really "read" the opposite sex correctly with or without technology mucking up the works? Just in time for Valentine's Day, we went to Beverly Hills and asked the A-team cast of the new romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You to share their take on all things romantic.

Meet the gorgeous young cast; Drew Barrymore, in sexy blonde bombshell mode; blue drapey dress, big gold dangle earrings and poofy "Marilyn" do, Scarlett Johansson sporting shockingly different straight, dark brown hair and conservative pink jacket over beige jeweled shell and black pants and Ginnifer Goodwyn in rust-colored, drape-neck dress, hair up, big hoop earrings. Oh yeah, and the guys look hot too; we're throwing in a few comments from cute Bradley Cooper and funny Justin Long.

TeenHollywood: Drew... love the look.

Drew: Oh, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I'm goin' big. It's all about hairdo.

TeenHollywood: Are you having fun being this blonde?

Drew: Well, I love being a redhead too. Redhead is one of my favorites but I love being blonde. It's so much fun.

TeenHollywood: Does this new look just feel different?

Drew: It does. Absolutely. I was so involved in producing this movie and I'd just done this movie Grey Gardens and I was so focused on work that I hadn't reinvented my look in so long and I love to reinvent. It gives you a whole new attitude. It's a little scary to get out of your safe zone but I love change. It's fun and I embrace it.

TeenHollywood: You are one of the producers on the film and you play a fun but smaller role. Why did you pick the role of Mary?

Drew: Because I identified with that character and I worked with my partner Nan, who is the producer, and the writers, and I was in the middle of doing Grey Gardens and directing this film Whip It, and there were just so many other great roles and there were so many awesome actors and I just wanted to step back, and I liked my character. I wanted to make her the one who's dismayed by technology, and it was just a perfect fit for me. I really liked her. Everything happens organically for a reason, so I felt like a Mary.

TeenHollywood: Speaking of electronic dating. Mary has problems with it. How do you feel about all the guy/girl texting?

Drew: I wanted to express how difficult it is. I still have a wall phone and I love tape and shoot on film and so this whole like, 'you're in your pocket and you have to respond immediately and be quirky and quippy' [is hard]. And no guys call anymore. It's all text, so I'm awkward enough on the phone. It's really difficult, so I wanted to discuss that in film because it's so important in our day and age of Facebook and MySpace and the internet and texting, and all of this, it's just a new ballgame, so I wanted to address that.

TeenHollywood: You're single. Can you relate to that personally?

Drew: I don't have a lot of technological savvy, luckily. So someone's really had to do it to my face which I like. I relate to my character in that I just don't know how to gauge technology and love or dating or anything really. It's hard. You can misunderstand. You're expected to respond on the spot. You're in the middle of a meeting and someone is like, 'Why didn't you text me back?' 'Because I have a freaking life.' It's just hard. I prefer if someone has something to say that they do it to my face.

TeenHollywood: Amen! Ginnifer, your character GiGi is so relatable but could be interpreted as annoying and needy. Can you talk about that?

Ginnifer: In playing her open and resilient, and choosing to have her walk boldly even in the wrong direction, I think it certainly can come across as desperate and clingy. I think that our entire goal with GiGi was to play her as intelligently as possible. It was important that she not stumble out of ignorance. I think every woman thinks that she's brilliant and that we make decisions using the information we have but the information that she has is misguiding, and therefore her falling on her face with commitment should be humiliating in a really relatable way so it was really great fun.

TeenHollywood: Could you personally relate to her?

Ginnifer: Hey, I am rejected on a daily basis in what I do for a living, so it was easy for me to play a character who embraces rejection herself in her personal life.

TeenHollywood: Scarlett, you and Bradley's characters are maybe not quite as lovable as some of the rest; he's married and hot for you. You know it and go for him anyway. Could you talk about that?

Scarlett: I think even though there was somebody that was being hurt in the process, I think that the two characters really like each other. They connect and so you can't really hate them, because it's not like they're being vindictive, she's not looking to steal a married man, and he's not looking to have some affair. And they both go into it knowing that there's a third person in the relationship. But, this could be the person that you have children with and get married to and spend the rest of your life with, and I think these two characters feel that way about each other, they make such a connection. And I think Bradley's character's fault is just not being able to man-up and really commit, because he has so many weaknesses -

Bradley: (smiling at her) Oh, okay.

Scarlett: He's not just able to be truthful and commit, and she sees that weakness and then it all falls apart. But I think that you can't hate them because they don't go into it with malice, they don't go into their relationship with a purpose to hurt somebody, and so it's life, I guess. These things happen, I guess, don't they?

Bradley: Yeah, and they were both well-written characters I think. I remember reading the script and reading that character, and I thought, 'I'd love to play that,' because it is so easy to vilify him especially. In the writing you could just feel sorry for him and the wreckage that he's caused, because he's not really a man, but you can understand him I guess is the point. (looking at Scarlett) I'm glad you said that, thank you.

TeenHollywood: Scarlett, you just got married (to actor Ryan Reynolds). What does marriage bring to a relationship that the absence of marriage doesn't?

Scarlett: I have no perspective on that. I think you should maybe ask me that question in twenty-five years.

TeenHollywood: Drew, what clicks in women when they finally believe that "he's just not that into you"?

Drew: I think at a certain point something clicks and you're just not willing to accept or give less than what your heart desires, or less than what you deserve. Your behavior changes. You run into that wall and you hit your head so many frickin' times that it's just there and bloody on the floor, and you're like, 'I get it.' And [women think] there is that infinitesimally small chance 'maybe he did get hit by a bus'. For the most part I think a person has a certain pattern and behavior and you have to look at that and just say, 'What works for me? What works for this person?' And not repeat the same BS over and over and over, or accept less.

TeenHollywood: You have a great cast here, Drew and great storylines that interweave. Why did it work out so well?

Drew: I love all of the [cast] and storylines. That's what's so great about an ensemble. I was watching The Big Chill the other night, and you're just fascinated with everybody's storyline. [In this film] all the stories seemed extremely well interwoven without feeling like, 'Oh, isn't it coincidental that everybody knows everybody? Everyone obviously decided to do this because of the writing, because they liked the idea of working with each other. It's real life. These are not fantastical storylines where somebody misses someone at an airport, and somebody's a prince. This is what we're all really dealing with, so it's an amazing opportunity for all of us to get to work on a project that's relatable.

TeenHollywood: Justin, you are the advice-giver but need to take your own advice.

Drew: I think there's something so great too about Justin's character and your friends not codling you but being honest. You think that you're helping your friend by making them feel better, when really the truth will get them so much further in life, so sage wisdom about how to keep evolving in relationships is fantastic.

Justin: And sometimes that wisdom is so much simpler than what the person is actually looking for. People tend to over-analyze a lot in these situations and Ginny's character's is a good example of that, just deconstructing it to the point where it doesn't make any sense. So at one point you need someone to just shake you and say, 'Shut up, it's right there! He's (sings it) just not that into you.' But sing it like that (laughter).

Ginnifer: It softens the blow.

TeenHollywood: Ginnifer, what is your advice for getting over a broken heart? Do you call in the BFFs?

Ginnifer: Well, I have, honest to God, had girlfriends and sisters come pick me up from break-up locations (laughter). I've actually said, in the middle of a break-up, 'I'm sorry but I need to call a sister'. 'Can you please come get me and bring me a Starbucks?' This has happened and I have best girlfriends in the world and I've learned about myself that it's absolutely fine that I have a certain level of co-dependence. I might need to slumber party for a week straight and eat an awful lot of boxes of cookies. I all about embracing the girlfriends.

TeenHollywood: Drew and Scarlett, in general, do you talk with your girlfriends about guys a lot?

Drew: Yeah. My girlfriends have been so much smarter than me. I'm like, 'Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Patterns. Mistakes.' I love this movie. I just think it's relatable and I think it has wisdom and it's not heavy-handed and I just think it's a phenomenal movie. I've learned something,

Scarlett: Of course my friends and I always talk about relationships and I always probably over-analyze everything. If this person is making you crazy, if this person is making you doubt yourself, go get rid of him. I always kind of come back to that. Whether or not my girlfriends stay with the guy or not, in the end it usually ends up that they eventually part ways. That sounds like I'm out there breaking up relationships. Also, my friends who have been with their husbands and boyfriends for a long period of time, it goes through different cycles and sometimes it's nice to just vent and advise someone because you need an outside perspective I feel like sometimes. Relationships can get very sheltered and they fester in a way. So it can be nice, whether it's from your sister or your girlfriend, to get a perspective on the whole thing.

TeenHollywood: Justin, do you get together with your guy pals and talk about relationships or not when things are breaking up?

Justin: I take like eight naps a day. I do. I have a couple of close friends that I talk to about everything, yeah. I think guys talk as much as women...

Ginnifer: No way.

Justin:... unless I just have very gossipy guy friends. But I definitely do, yeah. I rely pretty heavily on them.

TeenHollywood: Did this group of actors know each other before this film?

Drew: We all pretty much did know each other in different ways, yeah, absolutely.

Bradley: Actually, I didn't meet Jennifer Connelly until the first day and the first scene that we shot was in the Walmart or the Costco and I didn't even know her [his character admits he's having an affair] which was so crazy and we had to shoot that scene and I didn't know Scarlett either before our first day.

Drew: Like I said, we all knew each other. (laughter)

Bradley: And I never met Drew before so I don't know what she's talking about.

Drew: We went to dinner!

Bradley: After I got the gig. It meant a lot to me. (laughter)

Drew: Well, I new Justin, I knew Kevin (Connelly), I knew Scarlett. I met Ginny on this. I knew Jennifer Aniston. I knew everybody.

TeenHollywood: Bradley, if you didn't know Scarlett, what surprised you about her?

Bradley: I was always a huge fan of Jennifer Connelly but I wasn't as familiar with Scarlett and that's what blew me away. You have like a real actor here. She's one of the best. I'm so excited to see what she's gonna do. She like blew me away.

Scarlett: I'll give you your twenty dollars later.

Bradley: No it's true. It's really true. I was blown away.

TeenHollywood: Do women just have to hit guys over the head so they'll realize what they have?

Justin: I think sometimes, yeah. Hit with a Mac truck or some large, blunt object.

Bradley: I'm going to go on the record and say 'no, they shouldn't be hit'. We disagree.

Justin: I think sometimes, sure, yeah. It's hard to see the forest for the trees, absolutely.

TeenHollywood: Ginnifer, have you ever had an experience where you mis-read a guy's signs and can now look back on it and laugh?

Ginnifer: I do every day. I mis-read signs every day and now I'm paid to put those mis-readings on screen.

TeenHollywood: Justin, which character out of the entire film do you most identify with?

Justin: They were making fun of me because I kept saying I identify with some of the female characters. But, I really did. There was a little bit of truth that I connected to in all of the storylines, even Bradley's even though I'm not married and have never been married, I've been in serious relationships and there was something in there that I was able to draw from in all of the storylines and certainly Ginny's character. I definitely identified with all of them, yeah. The only one I didn't was my own (laughter) oddly.

TeenHollywood: Let's turn the tables. Tell us about a girl that just wasn't that into you.

Justin: I went out with a girl in college and it was the first girl I ever worked up the courage to ask out blind without any preamble and she spent the entire time asking me about my friend James and they ended up going out. Literally, everything I said like 'how's your coffee?' 'It's good. I wonder if James would like this?' I was finally like 'do you want me to?' She was like 'would you? Would that be weird?' And I did [fix them up]. I was such a pushover.

TeenHollywood: That sucks! Drew, is there any good way to end a relationship if not in person?

Justin: Skywriting. (laughter)

Drew: Oh no! You've answered your own question. It's rhetorical.

Scarlett: What about in case of emergency?

Drew: Fly. Do whatever you can. The older you get the more un-okay it is to do it over any technological device. Yes, in person is the starter right there and then, hopefully, as sweetly and kindly and nurturingly as possible.

TeenHollywood: Is it true that, if a guy wants to be with you, he will do anything to make that happen?

Justin: Yes.

Ginnifer: Yeah.

Drew: Men build bridges. If they want to get from here to there, they can find your phone number, I think.

Justin: Well, that's dangerous to say. You might get a potential stalker!

Drew: (laughs) No. I'm not saying 'call me'. I'm saying, as a general rule, I feel like men know how to find you if they want to find you. I was not inviting that.

TeenHollywood: How do you know when someone just isn't that into you?

Scarlett: I think that it's obvious. When someone's not putting in the same [energy], not meeting you halfway I think that they're not as really into it.

Ginnifer: Yes, when you're not being met halfway. I think that we spend a lot of time being so afraid of rejection, sugarcoating things for ourselves and our friends. It's really very simple. I think that this movie is avant-garde because it's so simple and so true. We all really do know when someone isn't that into us. We just don't want to have to deal with it at the time and instead of ripping off the band-aid fast, we just deal with it later.

Drew: Apparently your character and mine didn't know that.

TeenHollywood: Scarlett, was there someone you based this character on? And are you okay with playing all the femme fatale roles?

Scarlett: We weren't trying to recreate any particular image. I played their idea of this iconic blonde and I think that's who comes to mind. I'm twenty-four years old and I think there is a kind of ingénue thing that women in their twenties are used for, that whimsical, transient character and so is life. It reflects the periods that women go through in their twenties. I think that women in their thirties and actresses in their thirties kind of take on meatier roles. They're playing mothers and wives and women who have been through a life before. I look forward to the time when I'll be able to have more life experience to kind of put into those roles. Right now, I feel transient, I suppose, a bit transient. Also, in my career I think that's reflected as well.

TeenHollywood: Bradley, how do you like the portrayal of modern men in movies now?

Bradley: I think that we're living in a weird time for men and the Judd Apatow movies reflect that, for example. It's more of an introspective and communal group of people than certainly my father's generation. This prototypical man today seems to be Michael Cera. Women love Michael Cera, the sensitive guy. He's not Tommy Lee Jones.

TeenHollywood: Drew, will there be a Charlie's Angels Three?

Drew: Someone said 'You should do a Charlie's Angels 3,' and I was like, 'No s**t!' I would love to. But, it's still incubating in all of our hearts.

TeenHollywood: For Valentine's Day, do you have any suggestions for romantic books that make you cry?

Drew: "A Farewell to Arms" by Hemmingway. I don't think I've ever cried so hard at the end of a book. It's the most beautiful love story. I'm reading "Anna Karenina" right now. But, "A Farewell to Arms" was the first one that popped into my head as far as how it ended and I loved "Franny and Zooey" even though that's a totally different type of love story, it also had such an impact on me. I love when a book just ends in a way where you're just bawling. It's just great.