Sandra Bullock covers the latest issue of Glamour Magazine. The editorial is fresh and pretty. They dressed her in playful preppy clothes and her personality comes through in the photos. In the interview, Bullock gets candid and opens up somewhat about her career and motherhood. She was actually interviewed by her costar, Zoe Kazan, which could explain why she’s so chatty. Bullock hints about some of the things she went through in the aftermath of her divorce while focusing on how it changed and shaped her as a person. She’s a smart cookie and she’s tough. I enjoyed reading this and found myself nodding a little at some of things she said. She also revealed that her role in the film Our Brand is Crisis, which is out later this month, was originally written for a man. She requested that the gender be switched and was given the part.

Here’s some of what she told Glamour:

On not being asked to be ‘the girl’ in films
“They didn’t want me to be the girl. ‘Cause I wasn’t classically beautiful. I loved comedy. I was the best friend. I wasn’t a leading lady. It allowed me to express myself in a more authentic way. Because I didn’t fit a certain type, it gave me the career I wanted.”

On requesting to make her character a woman instead of a man
“I did as my mother did: I put my blinders on and blazed forward. Sometimes you get a no. But I expect the no. I don’t expect the yes. With this I got very nervous. I didn’t know if George [Clooney] had made this for himself. But the response was ‘We’re cool with it.'”

On her youth and feeling like an adult
“I did some stupid things in college. Fact that I didn’t wind up in jail: miracle. Miracle! So I’m grateful for that. But, 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.’

The events that gave her self knowledge
“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.”

On if she thinks about the peril that African-American men face in our country
Men and women. [I think about it] Every day. Tearing up again. You see how far we’ve come in civil rights—and where we’ve gotten back to now. I want my son to be safe. I want my son to be judged for the man he is. We are at a point now where if we don’t do something, we will have destroyed what so many amazing people have done. You look at women’s rights; it’s turning into a mad, mad world out there. But sometimes it needs to get really loud for people to say, ‘I can’t unsee this.’ If I could ride in a bubble with him for the rest of his life, I would. But I can’t.

[From Glamour via E! Online]

She said so many things that I related to in this piece, particularly about finding yourself and trying to be the person who is worthy of your child’s respect. I think once you hit 40 you reach a place where you don’t care as much about day to day annoyances and where you know how capable you are. Maybe that just comes with experience and crisis management though.

I wish her picker wasn’t broken, but maybe her latest boyfriend isn’t as bad as he seems. We only know what the media is telling us about him and it’s pretty polarized. The truth is likes somewhere in between, that he’s edgy enough for Sandra to like him but decent enough to treat her well. Here’s hoping.