Sandra Bullockcredits her Netflix success to keeping her career thriving.
The actress recently launchedThe Unforgivableon the streaming platform to huge success, catapulting the drama to beamong the top 10 most-watched filmson the platform. What else is higher up on that rankings list? Her mega-popular 2018 thrillerBird Box.
“They’re good to artists. They’re good to filmmakers. If it wasn’t for Netflix, a lot of people wouldn’t be working,” the 57-year-old Oscar winner said. “Their stories wouldn’t be told. Who would think that me, as a woman, would still be working at this point? I would have been out in the cow pasture. It’s true.”
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In 2018, BullocktoldUSA Todaythat shealmost quit acting becauseof sexism in Hollywood.
“My career has been a domino effect of people who said, ‘I would like this person to fill this role,’ " theOcean’s 8star said at the time. “And not just in the industry, but people in my life. My mother raised me like, ‘Youdon’t need to get married, you forge your own path. You make your own money, and be your own person.’ And I literally went out into the world thinking there was no disparity, that everyone was equal, and I can do whatever a man can do.”
Later in her career, Bullock said she had a “wake-up moment, where I was like, ‘What is this feeling? Why do I feel so [expletive]?’ " she added. " ‘Oh my God, I’m being treated this way because I have a vagina.’ "
“It was hard for me, because I walked with blinders on through life and got to where I [felt] like I was less than because I was a woman,” she explained.
“And that was a hard pill to swallow. I had a lot of sadness from that. I was like, ‘Wow, maybe I need to step out of here. Maybe I need to do something else for a living.’ And that was in the middle of when I was getting work — I didn’t want to be a part of that world where there was that experience.”
Bullock next stars oppositeChanning Tatumin the adventurerom-comThe Lost City, in theaters March 25.
source: people.com
