It’s nice to know that having the best year of her career hasn’t gone to her head.
Last weekend, Sandra Bullock’s movie, “The Blind Side” the bighearted true story of football player Michael Oher and the brassy Memphis woman who brought him into her home and gave him a future (and a family) knocked the “Twilight” teenagers from their LOL reign over the box office.
A film that opens at No. 2 and then goes to No.1 in its third weekend is a highly unusual phenomenon. The film has grossed $128.9 million and seems poised to continue its breakaway run through the holidays.
Coupled with the stellar success of this summer’s $164 million comedy, “The Proposal” Sandra Bullock (45) is suddenly generating the type of heat that Hollywood typically reserves for the latest young thing off the bus!
Studio bigwigs are sending bottles of champagne to the actress’ home, which she shares with her husband of four years, former “Monster Garage” host and businessman Jesse James, (and often his three kids).
“No one really drinks in our house, so we don’t really do anything with it, “ she says, pulling her long hair into a loose ponytail. “But, we get a lot of champagne!”
Toasting her own accomplishment might go against Bullock’s unassuming nature, but her friends are more than happy to high-five over her success.
Comedian George Lopez says, “The Blind Side’ is the perfect movie to have earned his buddy her best opening weekend ever because it’s not some over-the-top yuk fest. It’s Sandy being Sandy.” And that’s exactly who she is, she disappears so seamlessly into the character, someone both hard-charging and nurturing, that her performance has sparked talk of an Oscar nomination. It would be her first. And it’d be a hell of a topper, to a hell of a year!
“Is there a bigger female star in the world right now than Sandy Bullock?” asks Mandeville Films partner Todd Lieverman, who produced “The Proposal.”
“She’s number one right now. She has got her pick of roles.”
So what is her next move?
“I’m going to crawl back into my hole,” she says happily. “For now.”
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