![]() ![]() ![]() It runs out of narrative steam halfway through - and it's definitely not as funny as it thinks it is - but it is not terrible. Its camera movements are steady, and its actors say their lines in human-like ways. “She nailed it that much.The Blind Side, based on the true story of Michael Oher , is a competent movie. “When the movie was over the kids were like … ‘There’s two of them running around,'” Tuohy told Deseret News. Even Tuohy’s children couldn’t believe Bullock’s transformation. No doubt, Bullock’s precise attention to detail paid off she won an Oscar for her role in The Blind Side. “I was like, ‘Sandy, no one knows this, get over it.’ But she’s a perfectionist.” “She would go through my stuff,” she said. Sandra Bullock attends the New York City premiere of The Blind Side | Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images Tuohy couldn’t believe just how many fine details Bullock wanted to get right. “I mean, she wore my same makeup, fingernail polish, my clothing.” “It was amazing,” Tuohy gushed of Bullock’s performance in The Blind Side. ![]() However, did Tuohy think Bullock pulled off her character in The Blind Side? ‘The Blind Side’ star Sandra Bullock got serious about her character “I think that she looked at it was like, ‘I gotta make sure that this fits me and that I can pull it off,’” she explained. And, it seems that for Bullock, it all clicked.įor her part, Tuohy wasn’t offended by the secret “tryout.” I didn’t know she was investigating.” But, Tuohy’s ignorance on the real purpose of Bullock’s visit meant that she was just herself. “We spent days together and I didn’t know that this was a tryout. “So she came and hung out,” Tuohy said of Bullock. RELATED: ‘The Blind Side’: What the 2009 Movie Got Wrong About the Real Story Leigh Anne Tuohy says Bullock came to ‘hang out’ at her house Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards in 2010 | Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage They don’t impose that on other people.” So, Bullock followed the filmmaker’s advice - she went to Tuohy’s house to meet the whole family. However, the writer and director of The Blind Side told Bullock: “I’ve been around them, I think you need to meet them. When Bullock was up for the role, Tuohy recalls the actor feeling: “I don’t think I want to do that, they’re a conservative Christian family.” After “Warner Brothers picked it up,” several actors read for the lead role, including Reese Witherspoon. “ The Blind Side sat in the garbage can for, I don’t know, six to eight months,” Tuohy told Deseret News. She’d already had two commitments, and she could not fit that time frame and they worked, they tried to juggle and it just didn’t happen.Īfter that, the movie sort of went into limbo. At some point, she realized that there was a time constraint in this because John Lee was very specific of how he wanted to film The Blind Side. She was locked, she was loaded, everything was great. My part was completely written for Julia Roberts by 20th Century Fox. However, the character wasn’t initially intended for Bullock. “She didn’t turn it down three times,” Tuohy said. In an interview with Deseret News, the interviewer asked Tuohy if the rumors were true that Bullock declined the starring role in The Blind Side multiple times. What did Tuohy think of Bullock’s Oscar-winning portrayal of her in the movie The Blind Side? The real woman behind the 2009 movie ‘The Blind Side’ explains how Sandra Bullock got cast Sandra Bullock with Leigh Anne Tuohy at The Blind Side benefit premiere in 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana | Skip Bolen/WireImage The Blind Side, the 2009 film starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron, tells the real story of Leigh Anne Tuohy, who gave a home to a young football player named Michael Oher. ![]()
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