From The Hollywood Reporter · McKinley Franklin · · 1m 20s
Sandra Bullock on the auditions she walked out of
Sandra Bullock tells Jennifer Aniston about the audition rooms she refused, and what brought her back to the big screen.
In brief
Sandra Bullock tells Jennifer Aniston about the audition rooms she refused, and what brought her back to the big screen. Bullock built a long career partly by deciding early which rooms she would not stay in. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Two friends, one cover
Bullock sat down with Jennifer Aniston for Interview magazine's Tuesday cover and went back over the whole span of her career.
Auditioning for perverts
She remembers rooms where the people casting her treated an audition as leverage, and where the ask had nothing to do with acting.
“perverts”
Asked to drop her pants
One request she names outright: take your pants off. It was the kind of demand that told her exactly what the job actually was.
“drop my pants”
Not the role for me
So she made a call. Any part that required sitting through that was a part she would not chase, however early in her career it came.
“Not the role for me”
Back in theaters
The conversation also covered her return to the big screen, with Practical Magic 2 putting her back in front of a cinema audience.
A letter to her daughter
Bullock calls the sequel a love letter to her own daughter, and she and Aniston also got into what it takes to live a life in public.
“love letter”
The essence
Bullock built a long career partly by deciding early which rooms she would not stay in.
