Overview
- In an Interview magazine cover conversation with Jennifer Aniston, Bullock said that early in her New York career she was asked in auditions to “drop my pants” and that she refused those roles.
- Bullock told Aniston she made a deliberate break from romantic comedies because of backlash and took a dramatic turn in the film Crash to “start flexing other muscles.”
- Practical Magic 2 opened in theaters on Sept. 11 and earned about $13 million on its opening Friday, with box-office estimates tracking the weekend near $30 million.
- The film reunites original stars and new leads and is being positioned by studios as a nostalgia-driven, female-led sequel that gauges whether streaming interest in older titles can drive theatrical returns.
- Bullock’s remarks and the sequel’s release underline two industry threads: performers asserting boundaries over audition practices and established stars using deliberate pivots to reshape careers and test genre demand.