“Leigh Anne scared me from the minute she opened the door,” Bullock tells EW.
“I was sitting in a chair in her house with my little hands folded in my lap.
I couldn’t say anything.”
Sandra Bullock and Leigh Anne Tuohy.Ralph Nelson/©Warner Bros./Courtesy of Everett Collection; Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
The Blind Sideis a testament to Tuohy’s bulldozer personality and the fervor of her motherly love.
“You have to pull on the reins.
If you just let them tell themselves, they’ll be sappy.”
Quinton Aaron and Sandra Bullock in ‘The Blind Side’.Ralph Nelson/Warner Bros.
For that reason, Bullock was initially reluctant to sign on.
“I didn’t trust it,” she says.
“I thought it would be schmaltzy and soft.”
“I kid you not.
If you’re her enemy, forget about it you’re going to wish you were dead.”
“When Quinton walked in, your first instinct was to give him a hug,” Hancock says.
Aaron never met Oher, but he drew upon his own struggles for the role.
“I didn’t know my father.
I was the biggest kid in school.
I wasn’t that popular,” says the 25-year-old, whose mother died just before he was cast.
“I could relate to a lot of the stuff Michael went through.”
“People who do what I do don’t do award-winning films,” she says.
It’s about what dress you pick, what designer you’re wearing.
Whatever happens, Bullock has already satisfied her potentially toughest critic.
“She did a good job,” Tuohy says.
She laughs a brassy laugh.
“And she has nice ta-tas.
I was elated about that.”
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