Sandra Bullock is temporarily retiring from acting, and the news completely shocked show business. While she was promoting her latest movie, The Lost Citythe actress revealed that she made the decision not to work for an undetermined amount of time, and explained the reasons behind it.
“Right now, and I don’t know how long it’s going to be, I need to be in the place that makes me the happiest,” Bullock told Entertainment Tonight. “I take my job very seriously when I’m doing it. It’s 24/7 and I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and family,” she said of why she won’t be returning to a recording set any time soon.
“We don’t know how long or how short that period will be, but that’s where you’re going to find me for a while,” she added, happy to be able to stay home with her children Louis, 12, and Laila, 10. , whom he adopted in 2010 and 2015, respectively.
From now on, the actress will go from playing characters to performing other types of tasks. “Care for all her needs,” she said when asked what she will do day by day. “Attend to the social calendar,” she elaborated.
Bullock also revealed that her children are happy because these days they will go, for the first time, to a movie premiere when they attend the premiere of The Lost City. “They will do it through the back door. Although Laila really wants to be on the red carpet. I was like, ‘She’s not going to go through that,’ but finally they’ll be able to see her and everyone will be able to invite a friend,” she said.
“It will be the first time that they get out of this kind of dark cloud of the pandemic and they can feel any kind of sense of normalcy,” he added. She confessed that during these two years of living with the coronavirus she was very paranoid. «All parents know me as the crazy one of the pandemic. They know that their children will return without covid when they come to our house.
Some time ago, during a talk with the magazine People, the actress had spoken regarding the relationship she has with her heirs. “I’m just the mother,” she assured then her. «When I am not, they miss me; when I am, I am annoying, and that is exactly how it should be.
Asked if her kids think she’s someone special and cool, the star of Speed He replied immediately: “No, not at all. Unless he brings home some kind of gift. I came home last night with donuts and I felt unbelievably great at the time.”
“I love who they are,” she continued proudly. “I am one of the lucky people who can be around my children all the time and see how they grow and who they become. I mightn’t be more proud of how they are doing.”
Sandra became a mother in 2010, when in the midst of her separation from Jesse James, her husband at the time, was granted the adoption of little Louis, who was born in New Orleans. In 2015 she decided to enlarge the family and adopted Laila, who was 3 years old when she came into her life. The children managed to fulfill a long-awaited dream of the actress, that she always wanted to be a mother.