Sandra: ‘Gravity’ best choice ever
Sandra Bullock says making the lostin-space movie “Gravity” with director Alfonso Cuaron was “the best life decision I think I ever made.”
Cuaron coaxed Bullock into playing an astronaut coping with disaster at the International Space Station after she had intentionally taken a break from Hollywood following her Oscar-winning performance in “The Blind Side,” subsequent divorce and then adoption of son Louis.
“What I got out of it personally outweighed everything else,” Bullock said. “I’m glad I got to meet the human being — Alfonso — that led me to say, ‘OK, let me investigate if I can even do this.”’
Bullock’s priority had been spending time with her son, who is now 3, and Cuaron assured her that she wouldn’t miss anything while shooting the film, which also features George Clooney and lands in theatres on Friday.
“‘It has to be a great time for my son. I can’t miss him. If I miss him, I will be of no use to you,”’ Bullock recalled telling Cuaron and producers. “... So they said, ‘If we make it amazing for him right where you are, will you be OK?’ And I said, ‘yeah.”’ last year at age 82.
That made him the oldest acting honoree ever, and he’s not stopping. He plays a U.S. Supreme Court justice in HBO’s “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight,” debuting Saturday, a historytextured film that puts the boxer’s quest to be recognized as a conscientious objector against Vietnam War service and the high court in the ring.