18-08-2023, 04:35 PM
This really is pathetic - she's an actor who portrayed a role to the best of her ability & in doing so was awarded an Oscar. She had nothing whatever to do with the exploitation of Michael Oher & to his credit, he' said as much.
Perhaps we humans are becoming more stupid. And to attack her so soon after the death of her partner is undeniably cruel.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce...cancel-her
"Actress Sandra Bullock lost her partner Bryan Randall this month after he lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for three years. Two weeks later, an online campaign is pushing for the star to forfeit her Academy Award.
As the revelation sets in that the whole world – including Oher himself – was hoodwinked by the Tuohys, an online pile-on to find a villain to blame has seen Bullock pulled into the firing line, with some on X/Twitter calling on the actress to give up the Academy Award she won for playing Leigh Anne.
Bullock’s portrayal of the Tuohy matriarch painted a picture of a compassionate mother led by grace and Christian belief, a woman who would do anything to give her supposed adopted son a chance. Before accepting the role, Bullock had turned it down three times initially out of concern for portraying a Christian, telling Cross Walk the “banner waving” scared her as she “[doesn’t] buy a lot of people who use that as their shield.”
Even Quinton Aaron, the actor who portrayed Oher, added his two cents to the debate, saying he wishes those demanding Bullock return her Oscar “would just leave her alone” after she’s “suffered a great loss”. “There's a lot of hate being spread around nowadays. And there's you know, someone asked me, there's people saying things that, ‘Oh maybe you should strip Sandra of her title … her Oscar.’ I'm like, ‘For what?’,” Aaron said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Perhaps we humans are becoming more stupid. And to attack her so soon after the death of her partner is undeniably cruel.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce...cancel-her
"Actress Sandra Bullock lost her partner Bryan Randall this month after he lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for three years. Two weeks later, an online campaign is pushing for the star to forfeit her Academy Award.
On Tuesday (NZT), former NFL offensive tackle Michael Oher, whose adoption story was at the heart of the 2009 film The Blind Side, alleged the story was a lie fabricated by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy to profit off their purported son’s success.
As the revelation sets in that the whole world – including Oher himself – was hoodwinked by the Tuohys, an online pile-on to find a villain to blame has seen Bullock pulled into the firing line, with some on X/Twitter calling on the actress to give up the Academy Award she won for playing Leigh Anne.
Bullock’s portrayal of the Tuohy matriarch painted a picture of a compassionate mother led by grace and Christian belief, a woman who would do anything to give her supposed adopted son a chance. Before accepting the role, Bullock had turned it down three times initially out of concern for portraying a Christian, telling Cross Walk the “banner waving” scared her as she “[doesn’t] buy a lot of people who use that as their shield.”
She described meeting Leigh Anne and feeling convinced she had found a Christian who “practises but doesn’t preach,” and soon after accepted the role.
Even Quinton Aaron, the actor who portrayed Oher, added his two cents to the debate, saying he wishes those demanding Bullock return her Oscar “would just leave her alone” after she’s “suffered a great loss”. “There's a lot of hate being spread around nowadays. And there's you know, someone asked me, there's people saying things that, ‘Oh maybe you should strip Sandra of her title … her Oscar.’ I'm like, ‘For what?’,” Aaron said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“There's nothing that says she had anything to do with this. She was an actress who got hired to do a job, and she did it so well that she was rewarded for it.”