The Lost City: Bullock and Tatum Revive A Classic

Alcove: I love how Sandra, your character is told, ‘you’ll only have to wear this two hours’ and you end up wearing purple spandex the whole movie. Out of every hilarious scenario that you had to deal with on a daily basis, what was the hardest to keep it together on set?

Sandra Bullock: Do you guys remember? Because it feels like every day it was just a certain—

Liza Chasin: They did not keep it together. I mean, I’ll take that, that they the joy of sitting on this set was all of the spit takes and laughter that Rudin takes often because the cast was just, you know, it’s gold. It’s just amazing.

Sandra Bullock: Nothing makes me happier than making Liza laugh. I mean, we were in the trenches from the very beginning, and we’re very A type and very bitchy and very bossy.

Liza Chasin: [laughs]

Sandra Bullock: I said we! [laughs] But nothing made me happier than to have Liza, who’s always got this stern face behind the monitor. And I get to go and run and be the actress. And nothing brought me greater joy than making her laugh. But you’re opposite Channing, who’s hysterical. You have Daniel, you have Da’Vine, you have Patti, you have Oscar. By the way, Oscar Nunez – when [Seth Gordon] wrote the part for Oscar it was before we actually found out if he was available. It was like, did no one call Oscar to see if he could do the film? But you have people like Oscar, and you just sit down and you let them run. And again, it’s joy. It’s absolute joy to be around people who just draw you in when they open their mouth.

The Lost City hits theaters March 25, 2022.