One of the good things about being famous is that everyone assumes your entire life has been interesting, which opens the door for obvious money-making schemes like book deals and biopics, but one relatively underutilized outlet for telling a celebrity’s very important and very unique life story is a fictionalized sitcom about the famous person when they were young—like Everybody Hates Chris and probably something else. The latest famous person to join that proud legacy is Sandra Bullock, who is working with Akiva Goldsman and John Legend on a “dramedy” for Amazon that is “loosely inspired by” her college years.
This comes from Variety, which doesn’t say where Bullock went to college, but some expert Googling tells us that it was East Carolina University in North Carolina (not to be confused with South Carolina’s West Carolina University, which is trash). What Variety does say is that the show will take place “in the American deep south in the 1980s,” focusing on one “darkly off-beat young woman” who “defies expectations and sets out ins search of love, community, and an identity of her own.” The show itself probably won’t get into this, but you will never guess who that darkly off-beat young woman will grow up to be or which trashy sports movie she’ll win an Oscar for.
Anyway, the real Bullock is executive producing the show, with K.C. Perry writing, so it sounds like she’s not too directly involved in this show about her life.
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“Darkly off-beat”? Was Sandra Bullock a goth? That actually would be hilarious if they commit to it
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what’s going on?
Playing the role of a 20 something Sandra Bullock, will of course be modern day Sandra Bullock.
Which also would be hilarious if they commit to the absurdity of it, like 30-something Ellie Kemper playing teenage Kimmy Schmidt in the bunker flashbacks
her wiki says after college that, “She then moved to Manhattan, New York, where she supported herself as a bartender, cocktail waitress, and coat checker while auditioning for roles”. I want that story 🙁
I wanted to hear about the time she took public transit in LA.
It was a one-time thing, wouldn’t work for a series.
Okay. How about time she went on a cruse?
Same! But I see potential for a limited series featuring a different mode of transportation in each ep.
I had to think about that for a moment and that’s even after seeing an article here today mentioning its 25th Anniversary.
I went to ECU and was aware that Bullock had attended there many years before me. Supposedly, they told her she couldn’t act. Though that’s likely apocryphal. Either way, crappy as Eastern NC may be (particularly in the 1980s), it’s most decidedly not “the deep South.”
Eh, I’m holding out for the suspense-filled legal drama about her suing her Austin home .
She was awful in Speed 2. She and the cruise ship had lousy chemistry.
*dry heaves*
There is no such place as West Carolina University. There is a Western Carolina University, and it is also in North Carolina.