While promoting her new film, The Lost City, the Oscar-winning actress admitted that she still feels "ashamed" for having been a part of Maximum Speed 2, released in 1997 and which was a critical and box office flop. .
About that project, Bullock argued in conversation with TooFab that the plot of the film "does not make sense." And she said, “I've talked a lot about it. A ship slowly going towards an island… That's one I wish I hadn't done, and there are no fans that I know of for that movie,” she continued.
In the interview, which the interpreter offered with Daniel Radcliffe, Bullock insisted that this project represents one of the performances that she prefers to forget about her in her long 35-year acting career.
The actor intervened to affirm that the action film to which the actress refers "awakened a kind of cult" since its premiere in the 90s. "Five people saw it," ironized the actress.
Interviewer Brian Particelli said that when he was a teenager he had really enjoyed the film, to which the actress said: "Nobody went to see it except you, so I'm glad," she joked.
Directed by Jan de Bont, the Maximum Speed sequel sees Bullock reprising the role of her 1994 predecessor, Annie Porter. The first film follows her and Keanu Reeves' characters as they try to save passengers from a Los Angeles bus that will explode if its speed slows or increases. Meanwhile, the second installment focuses on Annie and her boyfriend as they try to prevent a boat from crashing into an oil tanker. In 2019, Reeves explained why he didn't return for the sequel, candidly recalling how disappointed he was when he read the script for that project.
Bullock's announcement, confirming her retirement, completely surprised the world of entertainment a few days ago. The actress revealed that she made the decision not to work for an indeterminate period of time, and she explained the reasons behind it. "Right now, and I don't know how long it will be, I need to be in the place that makes me happiest," she told Entertainment Tonight Bullock. “I take my job very seriously when I'm doing it. It's 24/7 and I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and my family, ”she said about the reason why she will not return, in the short term, to a recording set.
"We don't know how long or how short that period will be, but that's where they're going to find me for a while," she added, happy to be able to stay home with her children Louis, 12, and Laila, 10, whom she adopted. in 2010 and 2015 respectively. From now on, the actress will go from playing characters to performing other types of tasks. "Take care of all her needs," she said when asked what she plans to spend her days off sets. "Tend to her social calendar," she elaborated on herself.
The interpreter also revealed that her children are happy because these days they will go, for the first time, to a movie premiere when they attend the Lost City premiere with her. “They will do it through the back door. Although Laila really wants to be on the red carpet. I was like, 'That's not going to happen,' but finally they'll be able to see it and everyone will be able to invite a friend," she recounted. “It will be the first time that they have come out of this kind of dark cloud of the pandemic and can feel some kind of sense of normalcy,” she added, confessing that during these two years of living with the coronavirus she was very paranoid. “All parents know me as the crazy one from the pandemic. They know that their children will return without Covid when they come to our house.
