Sandra Bullock is an incredibly talented actress, playing many diverse characters in her decades-long career. From crazy stunts to deeply emotional roles, she has done it all. The actress has even been nominated for the Best Actress Oscar twice for her roles in The Blind Side and Gravity, and she won for the former. But recently, in a strange twist of events, her name has been dragged into a controversy over her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical drama.
The Blind Side is a movie that shares the life story of former NFL player Michael Oher and his rise to stardom. The famous player has recently filed a petition against the Tuohy family in Tenesse probate court. He has accused them of making him falsely sign conservatorship papers instead of becoming his adoptive parents.
Sandra Bullock’s name gets dragged into Michael Oher’s controversy
As the Michael Oher news hit the media, inadvertently Sandra Bullock was dragged into it. The actress herself has nothing to do with the entire debacle. But as she played the role of Leigh Anne Touhy, whose name is in the petition, many are asking the Speed star to return her Oscar that she won for the role.
The actress, however, is going through a rough patch in her personal life and hasn’t commented on the same. On August 5, Sandra Bullock’s partner, famous photographer Bryan Randall passed away due to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a nervous system disorder that slowly leads to the weakness of muscles. In a tough time like this, fans asking her to take responsibility for the facts that she wasn’t even aware of are being labeled as insensitive by Bullock’s fans.
Details of the Michael Oher Controversy
Almost 14 years after the release of the movie, The Blind Side, its name has made it to the headlines again. As it turns out, the story of the movie is not true. In the movie, which is based on a book of the same name by Michael Lewis, it is shown that Touhys had a huge role in helping Oher become who he is today as his adoptive parents.
In the petition by Oher, it was revealed that the Touhys made him sign a conservatorship document under the false pretext of adoption papers. Previously too, the NFL player has claimed that the family did not really have as big a role in his rise as portrayed.
The player has now demanded the Touhys return all the profit that they have made through the movie and the book, along with interest. According to the reports, these profits are $225,000 plus 2.5% of the future net proceeds for each of the Touhy family members including their two biological kids. The petition claims that Oher “at no time ever willingly or knowingly signed this document and that nobody ever presented this contract to him with any explanation that he was signing such a document.”
The name of the movie being dragged into the controversy has invited trouble for the already grieving actress.
Sandra Bullock’s fans come to her defense
Amid all the controversy and backlash against Bullock, fans of the actress have her back. The fans took to Twitter to remind the “revolters” that the actress is already going through a dark patch in her life and it is best to leave her out of it. The actress wasn’t aware of the conservatorship and only acted in a movie whose script was presented to her.
Check out the tweets below:
How the events of the controversy unfold would only be found as time passes. But as far as the actress herself is concerned, fans support her and have claimed she has no role in the whole conservatorship issue.
