Sandra Bullock has been in Hollywood for more than three decades and made her position on beauty and the passage of time clear years ago.
In a 2015 interview with People, the actress said she never considered herself “a great beauty” or “that sex bomb everyone wanted”. As she explained, that even made it easier to age in an industry historically demanding about women’s appearance.
“I suppose I’m aging in my own way, and that’s what I wish for everyone”, she said at the time.
More than a decade later, her words are drawing attention again because of a conversation that remains relevant in Hollywood: how women age in front of the cameras and how much the pressure to stay young still weighs on them.