Sandra Bullock tells Jennifer Aniston she walked out on pervert auditions
Sandra Bullock has described auditioning for “every pervert that existed” early in her career, telling Jennifer Aniston that men running auditions asked her to “drop my pants” to win roles.
The exchange came in conversation with Aniston for Interview magazine, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter on 12 September 2026. Bullock said she refused. Her answer was blunt. “Nope, not the role for me.”
At the time she was living in New York and working as a waitress, the report said. An audition, a tryout in front of casting decision-makers, can decide whether a newcomer gets hired. She described herself as working her way up while turning down those parts, according to Yahoo Entertainment. She recalled walking out of the rooms after the requests were made, as noted by The Times of India.
The remarks sit inside Interview Magazine’s September 2026 cover story, titled “Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Aniston Work Their Magic” and published on 8 September. The magazine presents the piece as a joint interview centred on “Practical Magic 2,” motherhood and good hair, according to Interview Magazine.
The cover interview is organised as Bullock sitting down with longtime friend Aniston to discuss what pulled Bullock back after four years away. Interview’s site also frames that talk as covering life in public, empty-nesting and staying power as the industry shifts. Empty-nesting here means the stage of life when children leave home.
It is not the first time the pair have swapped questions for the magazine. Interview published a March 2020 conversation titled “The One Where Jennifer Aniston Gets Grilled by Sandra Bullock,” according to Interview Magazine. That earlier piece put Bullock in the interviewer’s chair.
For readers meeting this story fresh, the context is simple. Two well-known actors are talking about early struggles and later choices. Bullock’s account puts the focus on the decisions she made when work was scarce and the power lay elsewhere. The details are hers, in her words, and the setting is a magazine conversation rather than a courtroom or a studio statement.
