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Sandra Bullock ... hates romantic comedies?
AFP - Friday, June 5
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - - Hollywood star Sandra Bullock said she stopped doing romantic comedies because they are "terrible" and "not funny," commenting on a movie genre she has been long associated with.
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Bullock, who took a two year break from Hollywood, was promoting her latest movie, "The Proposal," about two people who start out hating each other but fall madly in love after a series of screwball adventures.
Which sounds a lot like a romantic comedy.
"I don't call this a romantic comedy," Bullock told reporters.
The movie "reminds me of the films from like the 1930s and 40s where there was a landscape, a story and drama was allowed to be in there, and you can't have good comedy without drama in it," said Bullock, 44.
In the movie, Bullock is a Canadian-born high-powered book editor who faces deportation because of her immigration status, so she quickly announces an engagement with an assistant -- actor Ryan Reynolds, 32 -- who she has tormented for years.
After a series of adventures, which include a trip to Alaska and moves to evade an immigration official, the two fall in love and marry.
Hollywood writers "don't generally write well for women in romantic comedies and I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with... romantic comedy," she said.
So in the movie "I am not funny as in romantic," she said.
The star of two "Miss Congeniality" movies, who was being paid some 15 million dollars per film in 2002, bemoaned appearing in what she described as bad comedies.
Bullock, Reynolds and two supporting actors joked around at the Beverly Hills press event, but Bullock spoke without a trace of irony when she said that actresses of her age receive fewer offers for starring movie roles.
Her attempts to break out of the action and comedy mold -- especially in 2006's "The Lake House," a romantic drama co-starring Keanu Reeves that was a re-make of the South Korean movie "Il Mare" -- have been poorly reviewed box-office flops.
Bullock said during her two year hiatus she realized that she did not miss the Hollywood lifestyle.
In "The Proposal," Bullock said she had to hit the gym and cut back on the carbs for a nude scene with co-star Reynolds, the square-jawed, buff Canadian actor who married actress Scarlett Johansson in 2008.
"But when it's funny, if it turned out funny ... it was worth it," she said.
Reynolds heaped praise on his movie co-star.
"I am not one to mythologize other actors too much," said Reynolds, who was also at the event promoting the movie, "but Sandra is a gorgeous woman."
"Hey! I am not sleeping with you!" Bullock snapped back in jest.
Also at the event were two supporting actors, Betty White, one of television's former "Golden Girls," and Oscar Nunez from the Comedy Central network and "The Office."
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(L-R) Director Anne Fletcher, actress Sandra Bullock, and actor Ryan Reynolds arrive for the premiere of Touchstone Pictures' "The Proposal" in Hollywood. Bullock said she stopped doing romantic comedies because they are "terrible" and "not funny," commenting on a movie genre she has been long associated with.
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