Tag: Sandra Bullock

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: Actress Sandra Bullock a decade ago had pledged that she would never again make a sequel to one of her many memorable movies.

It was 2013, the year she and Melissa McCarthy released the buddy cop comedy ‘The Heat’ — which grossed nearly $230 million at the worldwide box office.

While simultaneously making the awards rounds for ‘Gravity’ that year, press relentlessly asked if she would return for a second film with McCarthy.

“I’m not doing a sequel to ‘The Heat,’” she said at the time.

“I’ve done two sequels. They were horrible. What Melissa and I had was beautiful. We might do another film together. I think we should do a silent film together.”

Film fans and social media users connected the dots, and guessed the two “horrible” sequels Bullock was referring to: the followup to her star-making film ‘Speed’, which grossed only a third of the original’s domestic box office; and the widely-panned ‘Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous’.

On the ground at the SXSW Film Festival with her new film ‘The Lost City’, however, Bullock told Variety that she is ready to reconsider her position, reports variety.com.

“I had a ‘no sequel’ rule when I didn’t have the benefit of fighting for what I really wanted. I feel like, in my old age, I’m learning to fight for the things that I think would be best on screen — and I don’t care who comes away from the meeting angry,” Bullock said.

She credits that evolution to her producing partner Liza Chasin, who helped mount ‘The Lost City’.

Bulllock called it “the beauty of working with Liza. We are type A. We’ve known each other since the beginning of time. We both take what we do very seriously. We know that no one pays attention to us usually because we’re women.”

“No one thinks that (an) actress is really going to be a producer, so that’s good, they look away and ignore you.”

Sitting beside her co-star Daniel Radcliffe, the actor-producer said she’d be open to a ‘Lost City’ sequel if the script was on point.

“I don’t know that I’d want to do a sequel, but look — we had Dana Fox as a writer. If Dana Fox could come up with something brillianta there you go,” she said.

Bullock also addressed the late-December news that her Netflix original film ‘The Unforgiven’ had become her second title to crack the streamer’s top 10 most-watched movies of all time, anointing her as something of a Netflix queen. We asked if it came with any perks.

“The perk of Netflix is that hey let me work, and they let me choose material that never would have made it into the theatres,” she said.

Radcliffe asked if the milestone earned her a free Netflix subscription.

“No! I have like a little Yeti cup that keeps my coffee hot. But I think you’re right, I think part of our deal should be that all of our subscriptions should be free, kids included,” she said.

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Oscar winner Sandra Bullock recently discussed parenting advice and her dreams for her daughter Laila.

In an interaction with People (the TV Show!), Bullock told the host Jeremy Parsons that she has high hopes for her daughter Laila, and isn’t afraid to share them.

One of those dreams, which the ‘Bird Box’ actor shared was “just a fact,” was that her 8-year-old daughter “is going to be President of the United States!”

Bullock further joked that she is “going to be at the White House,” adding that “I’m going to be doing some redecorating!”

For the uninformed, Bullock earlier had revealed that she had adopted Laila, who had been in foster care in Louisiana. She previously adopted her son Louis (now 11-years-old) in 2010.

“I’m just the mom,” she told host Jeremy Parsons of how her kids view her.

“When I’m gone, I’m missed, when I’m there, I’m annoying, and that’s exactly the way it should be,” Bullock shared.

The ‘Speed’ star was also asked if her kids think she is cool, to which she immediately answered, “No, not at all. Not unless I bring home some kind of treat. Last night I came home with doughnuts. I was so incredibly cool at that moment!”

Continuing to the anecdote, she said, “I love who they are. Every day I get to see who they are. I am one of the lucky individuals that get to be around my children all the time and see who they get to grow up and be. And who they’re growing up to be, I couldn’t be more proud of,” she added.

The 57-year-old also reflected on how preparing for her new film ‘The Unforgivable’ helped her become a better parent to her two kids.

In the upcoming Netflix film, Bullock plays an incarcerated woman trying to re-enter society, and in researching the movie, she met with real-life women behind bars, reported People magazine.

“One of my tattoos was in honour of one of the women that I got to interview that helped me with insight to my daughter. She, too, went through the foster care system and there was something that was similar and she says, ‘Oh, my God, that happened to me. That’s who I was.’ ” Bullock told an outlet recently.

She added, “I got home and I go, ‘How is it that I went there to get her story, and I left there being a better parent because of the gift that she gave me?’ ”

As for the tattoo that the interaction inspired, the star said “it was a barbed wire with a butterfly on it.”

She also shared that in doing her research and speaking to incarcerated women, it became important for her to share “the truth of their journey to how they got there.”

Apart from acting, Bullock also serves as a producer on ‘The Unforgivable’, which marks her second project with Netflix after 2018’s thriller ‘Bird Box’.

‘The Unforgivable’ is all set to hit theatres on November 24 and will premiere on Netflix on December 10.