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Bullock, known for "Miss Congeniality" as well
as dramas "The Blind Side" and "Gravity", plays Malorie, a woman
desperate to keep her two children safe from an unseen threat
that leads people to commit suicide.
Premiering the film in Berlin, the 54-year-old said that while
she was not usually a fan of scary movies, she enjoyed adding
the genre to her portfolio of work.
"Here we had a journey that couldn't have happened without this
deep complex, intricate love story about a family and social
commentary on what we all feel is the state of the world,"
Bullock told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.
"Everyone has a different thought about what's happening in the
world today so those two blending together is a rare thing."
Based on the 2014 novel by Josh Malerman, "Bird Box" sees
Malorie take her children on a dangerous trip into the wild, all
blindfolded, as they try to escape an "ominous unseen presence",
which if seen, leads to devastating consequences.
"I found I became very agitated, very angry, very frustrated,
short tempered and I didn't realize it was a result of having
been blindfolded until like halfway through," Bullock said.
"I went 'Oh my God, it's because I don't have my tools of
expression as an actor' ... But I think in the end ...it helped
give a really jagged feeling to those scenes rather than if I
had holes cut in my blindfold and I could see and I was
pretending to stumble and be blind."
"Bird Box", a Netflix film directed by Danish filmmaker Susanne
Bier, also stars Bullock's "Oceans' Eight" co-star Sarah Paulson
and actor John Malkovich.
(Reporting by Ulrike Heil; additional reporting by Tanya Wood;
Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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