Miss Congeniality has turned 60!
However after Bryan Randall—Sandra Bullock‘s romantic associate since 2015—died at 57 following a three-year battle with ALS, the sensation of celebrating any milestone in life will be fairly advanced with emotions of grief. Regardless of that, a supply revealed that Bullock is “doing okay” due to the assist of her family and friends.
“She’s doing okay now. Her youngsters are wonderful. She’s very joyful to be a mother,” a supply near Bullock’s good friend Jennifer Aniston, 55, instructed PEOPLE.
“Her associates gave her the assist that she wanted each throughout his sickness and afterwards. She is grateful for all of the love,” the supply added. “Everybody helped to raise her up after Bryan handed.”
About two years earlier than the tragic information, the actress had introduced she wanted “to take a pause” from her profession to spend high quality time together with her household, together with her two kids, Louis, 14, and Laila, 11.
Bullock’s most up-to-date starring roles had been within the 2022 movies Bullet Prepare and The Misplaced Metropolis, for which she additionally served as a producer. In an interview in 2022, she mentioned that she knew throughout the manufacturing of The Misplaced Metropolis that it could be her final film for some time.
“I don’t know what ‘some time’ is,” she instructed CBS Information. “I might simply love to wash out the basement,” she defined, admitting that she wished to spend time at residence.
Since then, she has but to make an look on the massive display screen—although Bullock has just lately indicated that she plans to return quickly. Whereas marking the thirtieth anniversary of her movie Velocity with Keanu Reeves in Could, Bullock appeared together with her co-star on the 50 MPH podcast, the place the pair teased one other joint movie down the road.
“Earlier than I die, earlier than I depart this planet, I do suppose that Keanu and I have to do one thing in entrance of the digital camera,” Bullock mentioned when the podcast’s host steered that they foyer for a 3rd Velocity film. “Are we, you recognize, in wheelchairs or with walkers? Possibly. Possibly.”
When speaking in regards to the success of the 1994 blockbuster, which earned $350 million on the field workplace, she responded, “It was surprising.”
“And the truth that it continues to, in an surprising means, nonetheless strike up dialog amongst many alternative generations, makes you’re feeling actually good. Nostalgic in a really type of bittersweet means. Since you don’t—lightning doesn’t strike like that twice, and it struck and nobody anticipated it to strike like that, I don’t suppose.”