The 51-year-old features on the cover of the November issue of Glamour magazine. Along with a stunning photo shoot, the actress participated in a refreshing Q&A.
Starring in the new film, Our Brand Is Crisis, Sandra sat down with her co-star, Zoe Kazan and nothing was off the table.
The pretty brunette, who has been dating Bryan Randall for under a year dished that she can’t help but continue holding onto her high school cheer-leading uniform.
“Embarrassingly, yes,” she laughed, before explaining she may need to utilise it one day.
“[It] might come in handy some sexy night. I don’t know who I’m saving it for. I want to be buried in it,” she joked.
Zoe steered the conversation to their movie’s producer, George Clooney. Sandra revealed that she met George and fellow producer Grant Heslov before any of them had any fame.
Sandra Bullock plays “Calamity” Jane Bodine in Our Brand is Crisis, a new film produced by George Clooney.
“Grant, George, and the person I dated were all friends,” Sandra began.
“I met George at a party where he was doing Buddy Hackett imitations! George was the reason the guy that I ended up dating dated me. He was like, “If you don’t get with her, I’m gonna get with her.” He was kidding, but sort of pushing.”
Before adding, “So we’ve all known each other for umpteen-chillion years and have supported each other from afar.”
It’s Sandra’s close friendship with Amal’s hubby that made her comfortable to go for a role in his film – a role which was in fact originally written for a man.
“It was the story, first. This script came along. I went, ‘Wow’,” Sandra recalled.
“And then the role—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,” she gushed.
Adding, “The story, I loved!”
Sandy with her adorable five-year-old boy, Louis. The Hollywood star adopted her son back in 2010.
She chatted to Zoe about the importance of staying true to yourself –admitting while “Hollywood” can change people, your core still remains the same.
“I don’t think your core changes. If you were an asshole before you got in this business, you’re just a bigger asshole. I think you are who you are. I didn’t get into [this business] till later in life. Who I am as a person hasn’t changed. I was already baked,” she mused.
The mum-of-one’s fearlessness in life and work is something that has developed over the years.
The Oscar winner admitted, “You know, I don’t feel like I was an adult till about five years ago.”
“I literally went, ‘I know who I am.’ Not completely. But about two years ago all the puzzle pieces came together. I went, ‘This is who I like. This is who I am.’”
Sandra strikes a pose with the cast and crew of Our Brand Is Crisis.
Taking a moment, she went on to add that it was down two defining moments in her life.
“Motherhood and divorce—and not just divorce but the onslaught. Again, I let it affect me. I heard it all. And I had to step back and go, ‘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.”
You can check out more from Sandra’s refreshingly honest interview here.
Watch Sandra in the film trailer for Our Brand Is Crisis in the video player above
Cover girl, Sandra happily chatted about anything and everything!
