Lily Collins Says Sandra Bullock ‘Mothered’ Her While Filming The Blind Side: She ‘Took Me Under Her Wing’

Lily Collins learned a lot from her movie mother Sandra Bullock.

On the set in 2009 The blind sideCollins, now 35, “was Sandra Bullock’s mother,” she told Sky News in a recent interview.

Bullock, 60, “really took me under her wing during that experience and showed me the ropes,” said Collins, who made her film debut in the film as the real-life Collins Tuohy. The sports biopic earned Bullock a Best Actress Oscar statuette for her performance as Tennessee mother Leigh Anne Tuohy, who played rising football star Michael Oher (played by Quinton Aaron).

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“I really appreciated and respected the way she carried the set and carried herself,” Collins said, noting that she and Bullock stayed in touch after the film wrapped.

(L-R:) Tim McGraw, Lily Collins and Sandra Bullock in ‘The Blind Side’.

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“Even when she didn’t know she was teaching me, she was teaching me because I would watch her on the set,” she added. “The way she talked to everyone, treated everyone, the questions she asked and how she valued her character in ways I didn’t know you could appreciate.”

Now starring in his own television series — a Netflix comedy Emily in Pariswhich released the first installment of its fourth season on Aug. 15 — said Collins, watching Bullock on and off camera during filming The blind side “It had such an impact on me as my first experience of being led by this amazing, strong, kind woman.”

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The blind sidebased on the 2006 book of the same name by Michael Lewis, it was a box office success and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Oher, its real-life central subject, has since objected to the film’s depiction of his life. In a recent interview for New York Times MagazineThe 38-year-old former NFL star said he was “defined” by the “story” created by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. He filed a lawsuit against them last year alleging the family used his likeness to make “millions,” resulting in the termination of his conservatorship.

The second part of Collins Emily in Paris season 4 will premiere on Netflix on September 12. Among Bullock’s upcoming projects is Vigilanceremake of the French thriller.

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