Currently riding high after her recent success with goofy comedy "Miss Congeniality", Sandra Bullock drops the glam act to play a gutsy police detective in "Murder by Numbers".
It seems like you were willing to de-glamorise your character in "Murder by Numbers"...
It's not willingness. That's just how I look. I think it's more trouble to glam up. Every once in a while it's a guilty pleasure. I go, "Let's make a film where you can really enjoy the fantasy of film." You know what? Me, as a woman, when I see someone on film who is an absolute glamour-puss, I don't know how to relate to that. I didn't wake up looking like that. You have wonderful hair and makeup people who can get you to that place, but I feel it's easier to identify with somebody who is more normal looking.
How do you see your character?
As somebody who isolates themselves and uses that as a tool to get lost... it's dangerous, especially when you isolate yourself. We didn't want to look at anything and go, "We can figure out who she is." Since she has negated what her life really was, we didn't want any representation in her decor, her house, her dress, to say "I can figure out who she is". It was almost like a uniform. It's just there, strictly as a function. You don't look at anything she's wearing and go, "I wanna wear that." She goes out of her way to not bring attention to herself.
What is your opinion on screen violence?
Often films glorify it. Which is wrong. In the media, we need to be more responsible on how we represent it. Violence should be shown as violence. Because that's what it is. It should frighten you and be shown as what it is, rather than helping perpetuate it.
