Monday December 4, 2000

Sandra Bullock is "Miss Congeniality"

It's a movie that could become number one with a lot of bullets. It stars Sandra Bullock and it takes F.B.I. gunplay to the beauty pageant runway. EXTRA looks at some of the movie's crowning moments.

In "Miss Congeniality" Sandra Bullock plays a pistol packin' F.B.I. agent forced to go undercover in a beauty pageant. And as it turns out... Sandy's no stranger to the runway. She says, "The beauty pageant I did in college for money 'cuz all the drag queens dressed me up and I lost."

But Bullock called in some big guns to learn how to shoot big guns... her next door neighbor in Austin, Texas is an A.T.F agent.

I shot sub-machine guns. Tthey took to me obstacle courses and taught me how to fire. Took me through simulators where you shoot people by accident. I killed a lot of innocent people. I should not be allowed to have a gun (laughs)."

But wielding a tiara proved to be an even greater challenge than a firearm. Sandra's admits she was a tomboy growing up... fashion was foreign!

She says, "I didn't have any of that. We weren't raised with magazines in our household. Weren't allowed to watch TV. Trendy was not something, it just didn't exist. So once I was introduced to that world, it's frightening. Still is to me today, because you always feel like you won't live up to whatever it is that you are supposed to live up to."

But with this flashy new role, and magazines dying to make her their covergirl, Sandra is finally living up to her own expectations.

She says, "I went, 'Oh, I'll never be that. Get over it.' So I think it comes with, you go through enough stuff and things just become silly. That's what makes me happy about age. I look at things and think I can't believe I spent all that time worrying about that."

So there's nothing on your mind, Sandra?

She says, "I still worry about clothes though. 'Cuz I'll never wear the right thing. It's like sweat (laughs)."

By the way, "Miss Congeniality" hits theaters on December 22. You don't have to wait that long to see a cool and stylish Sandra Bullock on the cover of "In Style" magazine. It's already on newsstands.