Sandra Bullock sets sights on riskier roles
Hollywood star Sandra Bullock has said she is no longer interested in blockbuster starring roles, and wants to do riskier movies instead.
Bullock, 40, recently reprised her undercover cop role as hapless FBI agent Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
She said: "I don't do anything anymore that feels safe. If it doesn't scare the crap out of you, then you're not doing the right thing."
"Now I'm sort of looking at things overall and going 'What's the great story in here?' rather than it just being about my lines and my part.
"It's not going to help you having a great role if the rest of the support of the film isn't around it."
Bullock, who starred opposite Keanu Reeves in Speed, played hopeless romantic Lucy Moderatz in While You Were Sleeping and conjured up spells with Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic, is due to play US author Harper Lee in Every Word is True.
It is based on research by writer Truman Capote, who was a childhood friend of the To Kill a Mockingbird author, for his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood about the murder of a family in Kansas in 1959.
The actress will also reunite with Reeves for Il Mare, a remake of a Korean film which will be directed by Argentine film maker Alejandro Agresti.
She said she is fortunate to be able to choose both her acting and producing projects without having to worry about making big bucks.
"I'm not in a panic to make money. I love that I get to produce and do things that don't earn you a dime but in the end you finish it and you go 'God, this is exciting.'"
Bullock, 40, recently reprised her undercover cop role as hapless FBI agent Gracie Hart in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
She said: "I don't do anything anymore that feels safe. If it doesn't scare the crap out of you, then you're not doing the right thing."
"Now I'm sort of looking at things overall and going 'What's the great story in here?' rather than it just being about my lines and my part.
"It's not going to help you having a great role if the rest of the support of the film isn't around it."
Bullock, who starred opposite Keanu Reeves in Speed, played hopeless romantic Lucy Moderatz in While You Were Sleeping and conjured up spells with Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic, is due to play US author Harper Lee in Every Word is True.
It is based on research by writer Truman Capote, who was a childhood friend of the To Kill a Mockingbird author, for his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood about the murder of a family in Kansas in 1959.
The actress will also reunite with Reeves for Il Mare, a remake of a Korean film which will be directed by Argentine film maker Alejandro Agresti.
She said she is fortunate to be able to choose both her acting and producing projects without having to worry about making big bucks.
"I'm not in a panic to make money. I love that I get to produce and do things that don't earn you a dime but in the end you finish it and you go 'God, this is exciting.'"
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