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"[Ya-Ya director] Callie Khoury forced me to do the film," Bullock says of the mother-daughter saga adapted from the novel by Rebecca Wells. "I had read the book; I loved it. I didn't want to do the film, because I didn't want to ruin our friendship."
"It's her first film [as a director]," the actress says of the Thelma & Louise screenwriter. "There's a lot of stress. I didn't want to be involved. I said I don't want to be the narrator. I don't want to be that person, the storyteller, the boring role. But she puts you in a room with Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn and James Garner, and you go, okay, these people know what they're doing."
Two Weeks Notice, a romantic comedy that Bullock describes as "a love story to New York and a love story within New York," is about two close friends (she and Grant) who struggle with stronger feelings for each other.
"Why is it that when you become best friends with someone who could be a partner does the familiarity all of a sudden breed no ground for...breeding?" says the actress, stumbling over her own spontaneous wit. "I think it's because it's easier to be intimate with strangers at first, and then get to know each other."