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'The Blind Side': Exclusive featurette with Sandra Bullock

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00:03Maybe for an 18-month period, I heard all kind of names.
00:06Several people would make phone calls to me, I chatted with,
00:08and it was going to be this famous person, and I was kind of, you know, I'd kind of go
00:12back and forth.
00:13And the first time they called and said, what do you think about Sandra Bullock?
00:16I mean, I remember thinking, she might could do this because she's got a,
00:21I look at her and think that she's a little sweet, but I see a little rough edge too
00:26that it's going to take to pull this off.
00:27Because, I mean, you had to have something to relate to a 6'10 African-American kid.
00:36I mean, it couldn't be Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, or it just wouldn't be a believable story.
00:41And so I thought, she might could do this.
00:44You, and I constantly said this, I was like, I need to step up, I need to figure out what
00:50it is that you would do
00:51because when I wouldn't do it or say it the way you would do it or say it, it didn't
00:56work.
00:56And John and I were like, there's something not right.
00:59This isn't the way Leanne would do it.
01:00I mean, how many times did we email you as to what you wore down to your underwear, your nightgown,
01:05where you promptly told us we had no life, and we said no, to like your watch, to your, you
01:10know,
01:10what nail polish do you use, what, we're wearing the same colors.
01:14We're wearing everything we wanted, I wanted on this body was what you would wear.
01:18And I would turn down clothes if I didn't feel that they were Leanne-esque enough.
01:22The accent was hard.
01:24That's why we had you talk to the dialects coach.
01:26She did well.
01:27I mean, she hounded me.
01:28She did.
01:29She would want the same, you know, say Leanne 30 times.
01:34Say Sean.
01:35Sean, yeah, 30.
01:35I mean, there would be words.
01:36She would want me to go, and I'm going, did you not get it on the first time?
01:39You know.
01:39Yeah.
01:39But, yeah, she was a persistent little creature.
01:42She was because I made her, I said, no, you call her.
01:44I don't want her getting mad at me.
01:45You call her.
01:46Remember, I have no life.
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