She’s decreased her screen time in recent years to spend more time with her two children during their crucial childhood years.
Sandra Bullock was spotted out in Los Angeles’ Studio City neighborhood on Monday as she and her well-dressed son Louis, nine, enjoyed lunch.
The 55–year–old Bird Box star was draped in a black dress with long sleeves that featured a ruched midriff.
The dark outfit was lightened up a bit by hundreds of white flower petal decorations.v
She stuck to the monochromatic theme with a stylish pair of black leather boots, and she carried an extra black blazer over her arm.
The 5ft7in Ocean’s 8 star wore her brunette tresses straight and cascading over her shoulders, and she blocked out the sun with a large pair of aviator sunglasses.v
Sandra’s fashion sense seems to have rubbed off on her son Louis, who looked effortlessly dapper in a gray–blue plaid suit.
He wore a smart blue tie with polka dots and had a matching pocket square.
He completed the classy look with a pair of lustrous brown derby shoes.v
Sandra adopted her son in 2010, and in 2015 she adopted her daughter Laila, seven.
The While You Were Sleeping star has admitted to slowing down her film career in order to spend more time with her young children, but she also opened up about the role sexism played in her career.
During a 2018 interview with USA Today, Sandra credited Speed director Jan de Bont with her breakout role in the action thriller, despite being ‘the last person the studio wanted.’
She described feeling optimistic about her opportunities early in her career, thanks to her mother’s influence.
‘My career has been a domino effect of people who said, “I would like this person to fill this role,”‘ she said.
‘And not just in the industry, but people in my life. My mother raised me like, “You don’t need to get married, you forge your own path. You make your own money, and be your own person.” And I literally went out into the world thinking there was no disparity, that everyone was equal, and I can do whatever a man can do.’
But later on she had a ‘wake-up moment, where I was like, “What is this feeling? Why do I feel so s*****?”‘ she continued.
‘”Oh, my God, I’m being treated this way because I have a vagina.”‘
She skipped the specific details of her sexist treatment, but the sense of being of lesser value near pushed her away from Hollywood altogether.
‘It was hard for me, because I walked with blinders on through life and got to where I felt like I was less than because I was a woman,’ she said.
‘And that was a hard pill to swallow. I had a lot of sadness from that. I was like, “Wow, maybe I need to step out of here. Maybe I need to do something else for a living.” And that was in the middle of when I was getting work — I didn’t want to be a part of that world where there was that experience.’
Yet Sandra managed to keep the comebacks rolling.
After a string of forgettable romantic comedies and thrillers in the 2000s, she won an Oscar for her role in The Blind Side and led the Oscar-winning space thriller Gravity.
She returned to commercial prominence last year with the lead role in the heist comedy Ocean’s 8. She also starred in and executive produced Netflix’s post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box, which was among the streaming service’s most-viewed films.
