Breaking News:Sandra Bullock Was Once Accused of Stealing This Movie From George Clooney
Sandra Bullock’s friendship with George Clooney goes back a long way. Ever since they met, they’ve been very supportive of each other’s careers. But fans wondered if Bullock might’ve backstabbed Clooney by taking this film away from him.
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How Sandra Bullock reacted when she was told she stole this George Clooney movie
George Clooney kissing Sandra Bullock’s hand at a photocall for ‘Gravity’.
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock | Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Bullock starred in the 2015 political drama Our Brand Is Crisis, where she played a political strategist. The role initially wasn’t Bullock’s to take, and was a film that Clooney was tied to for a number of years. But The Blind Side star came across the project when she was looking for meaningful work. She was too impressed by the movie’s script to let it go.
“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,” Bullock once told Today (via Contact Music). “There’s a lot of unforgivable things that she does, yet somehow you have to cheer
for her.
When some fans learned about Bullock’s involvement, they were convinced she stole the film from Clooney. Ironically, Bullock had a similar situation happen between herself and Jennifer Lopez. But Bullock was quick to set the record straight.
“He, at the time, was not attached to this film to play the role,” she said. “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,” Bullock added.
In another interview with Glamour, she confided that Clooney’s involvement was why she was initially hesitant to do the film.
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