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Something’s Out There…: Does Sandra Bullock believe in any sort of supernatural occurrences? “I don’t think we are the only planet that has life,” said Bullock. “I do think there is something to human nature, if you want to call it intuitiveness, gut instinct. People who know things that have happened. It’s happened to a lot of people. But I always put it back into this…it’s almost like it becomes a scientific thing. No one has proof that I know of that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that. So when someone says to me, ‘I’ve had a bad feeling that something is going to happen and then it did.’ I don’t know how to explain it. It can’t be explained by science, but I believe in that happening.
I think there is something bigger than we understand, but I don’t think it’s supported and nurtured in people. I think people think you are crazy and unless it can be proved by science, it’s not valid. But I do believe. Twins have it. Twins know what’s happened to each other.”
Bullock she her gut instincts are fairly well developed. “My mother had extraordinary intuition. Extraordinary. I think everyone has it. I don’t think we are raised to embrace it. I really don’t. I have had things tell me not to do something and then I’ve done it and paid for it and listened. I’ve had dreams going, ‘What does that mean?’ And then the dream, what the essence of what it was happened. I think that happens to everyone. Is that intuition, is that premonition, is that coincidence? I don’t know. But I do know that there are times that I’ve asked for something and I’ve seen it and I look up and go, ‘That’s awesome.’ To me that is beyond my control so I appreciate any help I can get whether it’s the voices in my head or it’s a neighbor, I appreciate it.”
Sandra Bullock on Not Sweating the Small Stuff: With The Lake House, Bullock worried a little over the explanation of the mailbox. But the actress didn’t have that kind of concern with Premonition. “No, because so much of what is woven in the story is in the visual and was the director’s job. My job was to have the right emotion and what would she do in this situation? It was all about me. And I don’t mean that…but it was all about what is Linda going through at this point? What would she do with her kids? What wouldn’t she say? Why doesn’t she say anything to him? Because he’s going to think she’s crazier.
They are already distant when the film starts. There is already trouble there. If I bring up these visions is he going to leave me? There has been a lot going on before the film started. So we did a lot of that kind of talking. Why would she choose not to or why would she? And we said a lot of this happened in the years preceding this very moment.
That was nice in working with Julian [McMahon] and Mennan is that we came up with our own story in what put us in this place. So you feel it when you see it, but you don’t know it until the pieces get together and you go, ‘Omigod, she’s…’ And again, at the end, to have that feeling of what I would have done? Would I have gone back and changed? What would you have done? You know, you hold on to the resentment. Do you try and make a new life? Do you try and make a life better than how your life ended up, or is there something worth salvaging? I concentrate on her and not the other stuff. I didn’t have the wherewithall to deal with that, but I knew Mennan and Tostin knew exactly what they were doing visually in the storytelling.”
The Message of Premonition: "[Director Mennan] said, ‘It’s like the American dream becomes the American nightmare.’ I personally came out of it…my favorite line is the priest’s line: ‘It’s never too late to fight for what you want.’ And that is what you want in your happiness, is not going to be what the American dream is. The American dream, I’m sure, wants you to follow that path because it’s easy to control. But I’m a firm believer that we all deserve happiness in our way. It’s not going to be like the neighbors’ way. And have you done everything in this lifetime to make this lifetime your own?
Complacency - what a miserable place to be. She was a prisoner of that house and that routine and that run everyday was the same as her laundry. Everything was exactly the same. The love lost, the touching him, he turns away, you can’t speak anymore. You don’t know how to get back to each other. That happens to so many people. What happened to the fun or the laughter or the connection? Why do we get to that place? Why is work or business or success or having that house or that lifestyle so important that we will allow it to make us dead? That is what I took.
A lot of people have come out taking so many other things, but you don’t want to die going, ‘I wish I’d lived the life I wanted to live.’ Or said what I wanted to say. Or said, ‘You know what? I’m pissed off at you. F**k you! How dare you do this?’ Start a dialogue and get it off your chest. To connect, to feel something, to go through life unfeeling is, that’s not a life.”
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