Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are all set for Practical Magic 2
1. Alice Hoffman, Sandra Bullock was already a major force in Hollywood when she signed on to play Sally Owens in Practical Magic, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. In the DVD commentary, the While You Were Sleeping actor revealed that she suggested Nicole Kidman as the perfect choice to star alongside her as the wild sister, Gilly, despite never having met her before.
“I was like, ‘Nicole Kidman seems like the perfect person,'” Bullock said. “Our energies are so opposite that we needed what the other person had. I know I needed what she had. I don’t know why I thought of her or why that worked, it’s just one of those things, those magical things.”
2. Kidman was equally thrilled about working with Bullock.
“I’ve mainly only worked with men in my career,” she explained, “so the idea of working with Sandy on something like this, I thought, ‘Wow, that sounds fun and I want to work with a girl!'”
3. Despite having no prior connection, the movie’s director Griffin Dunne revealed that Bullock and Kidman portrayed the bond of sisters perfectly on set.
“They just had this great chemistry,” Dunne said. “They fight, they laugh at the same jokes, they’re familiar with each other in that historical way.”