Sandra Bullock has revealed she is taking a hiatus from acting to focus on raising her children.
The 57-year-old Gravity actress has two children; Louis, 12, and Laila, 10. She revealed she would take some time out from Hollywood to raise her kids.
Bullock Reveals Hiatus During Screening
After a festival screening of Bullock's new movie, The Lost City, The Proposal actress explained her future plans about work and her family.
"I am just going to take some time to be a mom," Sandra said at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. She explained her decision to take a step back from acting during a chat with Entertainment Tonight.
"I take my job very seriously when I'm at work," Bullock explained, revealing that she considered acting a 24/7 job that you had to be fully committed to.
"And I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and my family. That's where I'm gonna be for a while."
During a Q&A at the Texas festival, an audience member brought up Sandra's role as a producer in George Lopez's sitcom and asked if she was planning on doing more creative work with the Hispanic and Chicana communities.
Actress Has Two Adopted Children
Sandra started the adoption process for her son Louis when she was still married to TV star Jesse James.
They split and divorced in 2010 due to the former reality star’s numerous cheating scandals.
She went on to adopt her daughter Laila in 2015.
The Oscar-winning actress previously opened up about her adoption journey back in 2015.
"My family is blended and diverse, nutty, and loving and understanding," she told People magazine, "That’s a family."
"Katrina happened in New Orleans, and I knew. Like, just something told me that my child was there. It was weird. It was very, very weird." Both her children were adopted from Louisiana.
"Three or four years later," Bullock said of when she finally became a mother after years of waiting. "But then I looked at (Louis), and I just said, 'Oh, there you are.' It's like he had always been there."
In December, the Ocean's Eight star opened up about being a mom during an episode of Facebook Watch's Red Table Talk.
"I knew I would be a mother, but I knew I wouldn't be a mother at a young age," Sandra said, indicating that had previously always chosen work over starting a family. "That was all that I had. That was my joy. I was on a wheel, but it's hard when society is breathing down your neck going, ‘You have to do [motherhood] this way.'"
