Sandra Bullock Says ‘Gravity’ Puts Her On Top Of The World; Return To Oscars Possible
"Gravity" didn't get the top award at the Toronto Film Festival, but Sandra Bullock is still at the top of the world. Her last movie was a box office success, and "Gravity" is already a critical success. An Oscar nomination is a real proposition.
In a recent interview with Vogue Magazine, Sandra Bullock was projected as the woman who has it all. Her achievements seem to defy-gravity. But she also talks about her divorce, that grounded her despite the success.
About her role in "Gravity": "I'm petrified of flying... Plummeting out of the sky was not my idea of how I wanted to work with Alfonso Cuaron. But at one point I said down and said, What is it about this movie that is telling me to get off my ass and get over something that has paralyzed me?"
"Dr. Stone is haunted by a past tragedy, and Bullock wanted her to resemble a person who had "become a shell," so she underwent a grueling physical-training regimen designed to strip away "almost everything that possibly made her a woman." A dancer since childhood, Bullock found a pair of Australian dancers who served as her trainers. "They created a way of working out that I could tolerate," she says. "I don't want to feel like I'm in a gym."
On her divorce: "We're all where we're supposed to be ... I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting."
On her Oscar Winning performance in "The Blind Side": "I turned it down three, four times... I was so worried about it being a Lifetime movie." Director John Lee Hancock convinced her otherwise, but the first week of shooting was rocky. Bullock admits she struggled to find her rhythm playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, a larger-than-life Memphis powerhouse. "I could not make it work," Bullock recalls. "I thought, I'm going to get roasted. I'm going to get creamed for this."