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Sandra Bullock kept turning down her role in ‘The Blind Side’ because she was unsure she could do the role justice.
The actress plays a wealthy woman who takes in a homeless teenager who goes on to play college football in the movie – which is based on a novel by Michael Lewis – and admits she was worried about “messing up” the part.
She said: "I don't even remember saying yes to the movie. I kept turning it down. Not because I didn't like it, but because I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make it the story that it deserves to be. I couldn't bring to the role what it needed.
"These are the kinds of roles that actresses can mess up, and that's one of the reasons I didn't want to step into it! I didn't know how to make it as good as the story.”
Despite her hesitation, Sandra admits she was glad she eventually accepted the role.
She added to US TV show ‘Extra’: “I'm glad I did it. It's still a scary thought for me. I don't know how I did it, but I had a lot of time to prepare for it."
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