Sandra Bullock Reveals the Most Gruelling Part of ‘Gravity’ That Will Make Scarlett Johansson Feel Better: ‘It was so angering’

Sandra Bullock reportedly got frustrated while filming for her Oscar-nominated role in Gravity as she had to work with precise technology.

Sandra Bullock received her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Dr. Ryan Stone in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. The sci-fi survival thriller swept the Oscars with wins for direction, cinematography, editing, sound, and VFX. The film also earned $723 million at the box office.

Bullock and George Clooney reportedly spent ten hours every day attached to a robotic arm alone inside a lightbox for the production of the film. While Clooney was only on set for three weeks, Bullock was there for much longer and got frustrated due to the lonely shooting style and precise movements for VFX.

Sandra Bullock Got Annoyed At The Technological Hurdles She Went Through During Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón reportedly worked on Gravity for over four years due to the technological hurdles presented by the script (via The Guardian). Conceived as a tale of survival in the face of adversity, Cuarón’s idea to set the film in space reportedly presented many obstacles. He credited cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and VFX supervisor Tim Webber for making it happen.

While figuring out how to film the story of an astronaut stuck in space and navigating her way towards Earth was part of the challenge, getting an actress to do a convincing job and be precise in her movements for the VFX was another momentous task. However, Sandra Bullock was game.

Still, spending ten hours a day being stuck on a robotic arm made for car factories, inside a one-person-only lightbox started to get to her. She said to The Guardian,

That was the most frustrating part. You thought you’d executed it properly then you’d hear ‘Sandy …’ in the earpiece, and either Alfonso or Tim would say: ‘At 16.5 seconds, your hand was three inches too far forward, it needs to come back. Literally, if you were one inch out of place you had to start over…It was so angering and nerve-racking, but you just kept doing it till you got it right.