Sandra Bullock is showing a different side to her in her newest film. The Hollywood actress says that she couldn’t help but feel “emotional” when she read the script for her new film, The Unforgivable.
She says that the film is in homage to her daughter, Laila. Sandra’s daughter was in foster care when the Virginia native adopted her in 2015 (she also has a son Louis, 11, who she adopted in 2010 when he was three months old). Here’s what she has to say.
Sandra Bullock Sheds The Sexy In ‘The Unforgivable’
In the film, Sandra plays Ruth, who is re-entering society after serving time in prison for a violent crime. She is desperate to be reunited with the younger sister she was forced to leave behind, and who we learn has been adopted by a middle-class family.
“It took me two and a half years to find her, and she was two and a half years in a system,” Sandra said. Sandra also says she was “really saddened and overwhelmed” by what women who had been in her character’s position shared with her.
“They all started out in the same place as a child. They all had similar stories. And it represents a broken part of our country, at least – and I’m sure other countries – in that poverty does not deal you the same cards as someone who is lucky and born into a situation where you are not automatically part of that system with your birthright. And once I learned that, and I owned that, it was a shameful realization that I didn’t know about it.”
The actress also points out that “women are not allowed the same rights as men on many levels – but you get into the prison system, they’re even less. We are not integrated back into society the same way.”
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