Sandra Bullock Rejected ‘Every Pervert’ in Auditions ‘Asking Me to Drop My Pants’ and Stopped Acting in Rom-Coms When ‘I Was Getting So Much S— For Them’

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Zack Sharf

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Sandra Bullock joined her friend and fellow actor Jennifer Aniston for a chat as part of the “Practical Magic 2” star’s Interview magazine cover and revealed that she made the intentional decision to step away from the romantic comedy genre in the mid-2000s because “I was getting so much shit for them.”

Aniston asked Bullock if there was ever a moment where she “made a deliberate choice about the kind of career [she] wanted,” to which the Oscar winner cited two examples. The first was before she a working actor: “I was in New York, I was a waitress, I was auditioning for every pervert that existed asking me to drop my pants. I was like, ‘Nope, not the role for me.’ I was working my way up. Every working actor thinks you will never work again so you just take what you can get and make the most of it.”

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