Sandra Bullock has never been any kind of fashion icon. I think that’s part of the reason women love her – she usually gets something wrong on the red carpet. She’ll put on a beautiful dress, and her hair will be crazy. Or she’ll pair some low-key, romantic dress with rocker-chick, too-heavy makeup. Or she tries to be “high-fashion” and she just looks ridiculous. Which is what happened at last night’s All About Steve premiere in Hollywood. Take a good look at everything that’s going wrong with Sandra. It’s not just a horrible-looking (and what seems to be a horribly-constructed) dress. It’s the ankle booties that cut off the line of her beautiful, toned legs. It’s the screwed up, too-messy-to-be-classy/not-messy-enough-to-be-high-fashion hair. The topping on the cupcake is that in most of the pictures from last night, Sandra Bullock is posing like a truck driver. She’s such a hot mess, I can’t stop giggling. Bless her heart. She’s one of us.

Of course Bradley Cooper was at the premiere too – but he didn’t bring his new (squinty) girlfriend Renee Zellweger. He walked the carpet solo, when he wasn’t posing with his truck-driver-stanced costar Sandy. He looked incredibly dashing in a dark charcoal three-piece suit with no tie, working slicked-back (greasy?) hair and a little stubble on his face. His look is actually doing it for me, even if he looks more “stock broker” than “Hollywood”. Bullock told Radar Online at the premiere that as a producer on the film, she hand-picked Bradley to star with her, saying “It was important for me to get the actor that I wanted, which was Bradley, which was before The Hangover. So I wanted Bradley the actor who I loved from Wedding Crashers.” She also joked that she kept her figure looking so good with “Lipo – lots of it – tons of liposuction!”

I keep seeing the ads for this movie, but Bradley and Sandra haven’t been promoting the hell out it with tons of interviews. The only big one I could find from Bullock was this one from Parade. Here are some of the highlights:

On Stalking: “How else do you get dates? I learned that you have to stalk and then make it look very innocent. Then once you get them you sort of shred receipts and you do things that sort of cover the paper trail of your stalking. I think it’s a necessary evil to sort of lure in your prey.”

On the sexism of labeling women “weird”: “I didn’t want [my All About Steve character] Mary to change. I wanted her to continue being who she was and being okay with it. She didn’t think she was flawed. Society made her feel flawed and question how she lived her life. And let’s not ignore sexism. Why is it that men are called ‘unique’ and ‘eccentric’ and ‘mavericks’ when they’re different, but women are labeled as ‘odd’ or just plain ‘weird?’ It’s about being unconventional and being true to who you are. Not fitting in often means you’re really standing out.”

On the message of rom-coms, and reflections on her career: “If I can do anything in this time of my career, it’s to make it easier for girls who are growing up not to feel they have to wind up with someone to complete them. You know, I complete me. I’m just lucky that after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me. I love good romantic comedies, but there’s more to life than just looking for the right guy.”

[From Parade]

There is more to life that looking for the right guy. So why keep making movie after movie about that very thing? Although I will Bullock credit – she infuses many of her romantic comedies with a heavy vein of genuine feminism. Unfortunately, most romantic comedies aren’t produced by Sandy.

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