The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells ...
- Sandra Bullock
Just as you'd expect of a woman who's been invariably labeled America's newest 'sweetheart' almost from the moment she entered the public consciousness, actress Sandra Bullock made it to the ball with a little help from her fairy godmother. In Bullock's particular case, that would be a fairy godfather, in the person of acceleration auteur Jan De Bont, who went waaay out on a limb to get the little-known brunette cast as the female lead of his directorial debut, 1994's Speed — the film's producers had wanted (don't they always?) to shoehorn a buxom blonde into the high-profile part. The movie was a surprise blockbuster, critics and audiences alike raved about the li'l Miss Thang who heroically takes the wheel of the runaway bus, and the fairy tale was complete just nine months later when our cinematic Cinderella single-handedly made a huge hit out of the formulaic romance While You Were Sleeping....
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