Sandra Bullock is gracing the November cover of Glamour magazine, where she opens up about motherhood and her evolving movie career.
The 51-year-old Oscar-winner has had quite the career in showbiz, but admits it wasn’t until a few years ago, after her divorce from Jesse James and when she became a mom to her five-year-old son, that she ultimately felt like she knew who she was:
“I have the greatest gift in little Louis, and I’m gonna let him see the woman I want him to know. So a child forces you to get your sh*t together. In the best way.”
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With the success of movies like Miss Congeniality, The Blind Side, and Gravity comes the struggle to balance your personal and professional life, which Sandy opened up about:
“I’ve always been insanely private. When I [first] stepped into this, it was still loud. The tabloids were violating. I went, ├óΓé¼╦£How can people write that?’ I spent a year and a half, two years, distraught, saying, ├óΓé¼╦£You can’t say these lies.’ I spent years fighting battles you can’t win. As loud as it’s gotten now, it’s the same panic. As much as I profess to being able to shut it out, there are times I can’t, like when it’s hurtful to people I care about. Me, I get it. But when it hurts other people? Like, you come after my son, I’m gonna go postal. But they do.”
With rumors swirling about another adoption and moving in with her new beau Bryan Randall, Bullock wants to protect her family as much as possible — we understand that!
The interview then took a turn when Sandra was asked about peril that African American men and women face in this country. Getting emotional, Bullock revealed it’s a topic that concerns her every day when it comes to Little Louis:
“You see how far we’ve come in civil rights├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥and where we’ve gotten back to now. I want my son to be safe. I want my son to be judged for the man he is. We are at a point now where if we don’t do something, we will have destroyed what so many amazing people have done. You look at women’s rights; it’s turning into a mad, mad world out there. But sometimes it needs to get really loud for people to say, ‘I can’t unsee this.’ If I could ride in a bubble with him for the rest of his life, I would. But I can’t … I want my son to be judged for the man he is. We are at a point now where if we don’t do something, we will have destroyed what so many amazing people have done.”
In her latest flick Our Brand Is Crisis, Sandy tackles playing Jane Bodine, an unconventional political consultant who fearlessly fights for what she believes — a role that was originally written for a male. After reading the script, Bullock requested producers Grant Heslov and George Clooney make the role female.
On her decision, she shared:
“I did as my mother did: I put my blinders on and blazed forward. Sometimes you get a no. But I expect the no. I don’t expect the yes. With this I got very nervous. I didn’t know if George had made this for himself. But the response was ‘We’re cool with it.’ And then the role├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥I mean, it was so beautifully written for a man. It wasn’t one of those things where you go, ‘Hmm, how do we change it to a woman?’ You just change the sex; that was pretty much it. She’s human. She deals with addiction; she deals with mental illness. She’s brilliant at what she does, and she gets lost in the fact that all she cares about is a win. You look at our world├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥and back to my son: How do you raise a child to not make it all about the win when all we see in our world is people saying, ‘In order to have success, you have to win?'”
What a class act!
[Image via Glamour Magazine.]
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