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Sandra Bullock received her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Dr. Ryan Stone in Alfonso Cuarón’sGravity. The sci-fi survival thriller swept the Oscars with wins for direction, cinematography, editing, sound, and VFX. The film also earned $723 million at the box office.
Bullock and George Clooney reportedly spent ten hours every day attached to a robotic arm alone inside a lightbox for the production of the film. While Clooney was only on set for three weeks, Bullock was there for much longer and got frustrated due to the lonely shooting style and precise movements for VFX.
Sandra Bullock Got Annoyed At The Technological Hurdles She Went Through DuringGravity
Alfonso Cuarón reportedly worked onGravityfor over four years due to the technological hurdles presented by the script (viaThe Guardian). Conceived as a tale of survival in the face of adversity, Cuarón’s idea to set the film in space reportedly presented many obstacles. He credited cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and VFX supervisor Tim Webber for making it happen.
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While figuring out how to film the story of an astronaut stuck in space and navigating her way towards Earth was part of the challenge, getting an actress to do a convincing job and be precise in her movements for the VFX was another momentous task. However,Sandra Bullockwas game.
Still, spending ten hours a day being stuck on a robotic arm made for car factories, inside a one-person-only lightbox started to get to her. She said toThe Guardian,
That was the most frustrating part. You thought you’d executed it properly then you’d hear ‘Sandy …’ in the earpiece, and either Alfonso or Tim would say: ‘At 16.5 seconds, your hand was three inches too far forward, it needs to come back. Literally, if you were one inch out of place you had to start over…It was so angering and nerve-racking, but you just kept doing it till you got it right.
However, Bullock did say that the British crew managed to make the process more bearable and even went above and beyond to create a play area for her child while she was filming. All the efforts might have paid off for the actress as she was nominated for an Oscar.
Scarlett Johansson Had A Weird Audition ForGravity
While it is impossible to imagine anyone else as Dr. Ryan Stone inAlfonso Cuarón’s space epicGravity, Sandra Bullock was reportedly not the first choice. While Angelina Jolie was almost confirmed to be a part of the film,Deadlinereported that Cuarón was looking at Natalie Portman, Marion Cotillard, Blake Lively, and more for the role.
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A few years ago,Scarlett Johanssonmentioned that she had auditioned forGravityand that she had to undergo a strange one where she was sitting on a chair with a spacesuit. She said toVariety,
I did a screen test for the movie ‘Gravity,’ that Sandra Bullock is fantastic in, but I had to be in like the full, whole space suit thing, and sort of pretend I was kind of like floating in space. Even though I was just sitting in a chair with a helmet on.
The actress was reportedly turned down from the role, which coupled with an initial rejection fromIron Man 2(though she eventually got it), led Johansson to spiral about what she was doing in her career.
Gravityis currently available to rent on Apple TV.
Nishanth A
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
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