Actress Sandra Bullock Has Brushed Off Reports Suggesting She "Stole" The Lead Role In Our Brand Is Crisis From Her Longtime Pal George Clooney.
The Blind Side star portrays political consultant Jane 'Calamity' Bodine in the political drama, in which her character is hired to help run a despised Bolivian president's re-election campaign.
She previously revealed the character had originally been written for a male, with George in mind to tackle the part, but Sandra convinced producers she would be better suited to lead the cast.
"Initially, it was written with George Clooney in mind," she told Entertainment Weekly in August (15). "About two-and-a-half years ago, I just put out the feelers saying, 'I'm not reading anything I'm excited about. Are there any male roles out there that they don't mind switching to a female role...?' You don't get to read roles like this (in Our Brand is Crisis) a lot. There's a lot of unforgivable things that she does, yet somehow you have to cheer for her."
Some fans became convinced Sandra had snatched the role from George, who co-produces the movie with the actress, but she has now set the record straight once and for all.
"He, at the time, was not attached to this film to play the (lead) role," she tells U.S. breakfast show Today. "I'll steal something from George, it just wasn't this role."
"I'll steal other things from George, like maybe a house in Italy... in a heartbeat!," she jokes, referring to his vacation retreat in Lake Como.
Meanwhile, Sandra admits she had a lot of fun starring opposite movie bad guy Billy Bob Thornton, because he always plays the villain so well.
"You know he's gonna kill you, maybe eat you along the way, but you're OK with it, oddly," she laughs. "You go, 'OK, if anyone's gonna do it, it's gonna be you, and I'm OK with it.' What I think it is, is that Billy is truly one of the nicest people and the most honest person you will ever meet, so that's always gonna shine through no matter how despicable he is (as his character), so you're just watching him going, 'I know he's gonna kill me, but I'm just entranced right now!'"
Jane 'Calamity' Bodine makes the brave move to come out of retirement as a top...
Utterly charming, this silly prequel rewrites the origin story of the minions and sends them...
Since the dawn of time, the Minions have been desperately looking for a master. From...
It's a wonder why the prehistoric tribe of Minions have managed to survive so long...
The Minions are a prehistoric race with a love of bananas and not the biggest...
More like a 91-minute thrill-ride than an astronaut adventure movie, this tour de force throws...
Dr Ryan Stone is a medical engineer who happens to take her first space adventure...
Miss Congeniality shows up The Other Guys in this riotously funny buddy-cop comedy, which overcomes...
Medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone is on her first mission into outer space with veteran...
FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn and Detective Shannon Mullins could not be two more different...
Dr. Ryan Stone is a young medial engineer on her very first trip to space...