Sandra Bullock Named Entertainment Weekly's 2013 Entertainer of the Year

Sandra Bullock has had a stellar 2013 so far, with box office smashes in both comedy (The Heat) and drama (Gravity). In addition, she's continued to generally be one of the most likable figures in all of Hollywood, to the point where hating on Sandra is akin to a capital offense. So it's no surprise that Entertainment Weekly has chosen to honor Bullock by naming her the 2013 Entertainer of the Year.

Check out the cover photo below along with excerpts from Entertainment Weekly's interview with Bullock:

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When she signed on to The Heat Bullock didn’t expect to be playing straight man to McCarthy’s firehose-blast of a performance. “Once I realized that that drove the film I had to step back,” she says. “Otherwise I would’ve been fighting for something that would’ve ended up on the cutting room floor. It wasn’t what I was hoping for but the end result was the success of the film and people liking us together.” While Bullock nixes any talk of The Heat 2, she says she’s keen for another project with her fast friend McCarthy. (Hollywood, get on this!)

She was a true collaborator on Gravity as well. It was her idea for instance that her character Dr. Ryan Stone was in a raw state of mourning for her dead child. (Originally, the script called for her character to have a child waiting for her back on Earth.) “What if she had absolutely nothing to fight for?” Bullock says she proposed. “She’s lost a child, there’s nothing back home, she’s a person who’s basically a machine. That was my idea and Alfonso was so open to it.”

The Entertainers of the Year issue of Entertainment Weekly hits newsstands today (Nov. 26).

So what do you think of the choice? Agree or disagree? Sound off in the comments!

Via: Entertainment Weekly