SANDRA BULLOCK (CONT.)

Sandra: Yeah right here. There are hotter places. I've been to hotter places than here. The nights are incredible. It's balmy but there's a breeze and it's just great and it smells really great here too. It sounds good and it smells good.

Jann: Yeah I like the smell.

Sandra: I mean in L. A. you can't smell or see anything, unless we have a huge rain storm and all of a sudden we have one day of clear and you say, " Oh, that's the color of Los Angeles." It's actually a beautiful place. So, it's a good place to be.

Jann: What about the cuisine?

Sandra: Incredible. Good food, really good food.

Jann: Have you done chicken fried steak with biscuits and gravy?

Sandra: Oh yeah. My dad's from the South. He's from Alabama. It's not to do it is the trick. I've sort of refrained from that during the course of this film because once I start I can't stop and I am an eater. So, I've stayed away from the old barbecue pits, but I've indulged a little bit and I've stayed away from it so far. We've got one week left so after that it's no holds barred.

Jann: You were talking about this character Birdee Calvert, and it's not like anyone you've ever played before. Has it been fun? Has it been difficult?

Sandra: It's been... I really don't know how to describe it. It's been hard but in a very good final way. It's almost like if I don't do anything after this anymore, I've done everything I can do. Everyone works to have something like this, and I was ready for it. I wasn't ready for it two years when we started developing it, but I'm ready for it now, it was just in time. You feel like a moving target for two and months, but at the end of it I'll feel as if I've exercised a lot of things that shouldn't have been in me that long to begin with. That's the great thing about what we do, you can sort of take everything that life offered, whether it was bad or good, and you can get it out of your system. This parallels my life one hundred percent. This is one hundred percent of who I was. Hopefully it will end on the day we shoot.

Jann: You mentioned thatin the Rolling Stone article. You said that this script parallels your life so much. In what way does this script parallel?

Sandra: Figuratively? Literally? I mean I don't have an eight-year-old child, but, does it matter? That part of me is very alive whether I have the child or not. The relationship with parent to child and how we distort and destroy and do not forgive until it's way too late. The dissolution, sort of foundation that we build for ourselves when we're very young, if we make the mistake of allowing ourselves to build a family on top of something that's not solid. She was very disillusioned. She comes from a very don't rock the boat, have everything be pleasant and nice family. She was the beauty queen, she's was a little high for her horse, left with the prime steak of the town, which was her husband. They were basically children, and had a child, and all of a sudden that was destroyed. Now she has to come back to the place that she spent her entire life running away from. In the dealings with her mom and the other man who's been her friend, who was literally a lifelong childhood friend who was incredibly simple, who has none of the finesse that her husband seemingly had, comes back and its sort of the guy that was always her friend she would never admit to it because she was always aspiring to have better. He ends up being the great philosopher in his simplicity in what he teaches. He calls her on all of it. He tells her what a horrible human being she's been, and how terrible she's treated her friends or her child. Just when you think you're over the hump you turn and something else happens and you're like, "how much more can I handle?" It doesn't end perfectly, but it ends correctly. You think its over for this person but you look at your own life and you go, "you know what, this is how things go." Hopefully, somebody will look at it and go, "If this woman can make it through this part, and if this man makes it through life having been dealt the hand that he was dealt, and still find the honesty in people, I think maybe that's it. Its amazing. I cannot begin to tell you how perfect in life this has been and how hard it is but how perfect and right it is. It is the only thing that I've ever done that's one hundred percent right. It's the only pure thing I've ever been involved with.