Sandra Bullock thought she'd "done something wrong" after starring in Practical Magic.
The 62-year-old actress starred alongside Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing and Aidan Quinn in Practical Magic, the 1998 comedy-drama film, and Sandra has recalled the movie being "absolutely eviscerated" in the weeks after its release.
Speaking to Jennifer Aniston for Interview magazine, Sandra shared: "When we made the first film, we were absolutely eviscerated. If you look at the reviews, they were scathing. 'How many women do you need in a film? How many emotions need to be in a film?'
"I had a decent amount of shame because I thought I’d done something wrong. You just go, 'Okay, okay, okay. I won’t do that again.' And then it just took off."
Sandra credits social media for the movie eventually becoming a cult classic.
The Hollywood star explained: "Everyone was able to communicate why they loved it.
"Mothers watched it with their daughters and daughters grew up and watched it with their daughters. It was a total surprise."
Practical Magic was based on the 1995 novel by Alice Hoffman, and Sandra jumped at the chance to make a follow-up film.
The actress - who stars in the new movie alongside Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, and Xolo Mariduena - said: "I was in New York, sitting in that little sunroom thingy off the kitchen, and I literally thought to myself, 'How great would it be to do another one?'
"I reached out to Denise Di Novi, my producing partner, and said, 'You know what? The only way it could work is if these things were addressed with the daughters and we could talk about what’s happening in the world.' And she went, 'Sandy, that’s exactly what’s in the second book.' And I was like, 'There’s a second book?'
"Alice Hoffman wrote a second book. So I said if we can say these things for the people who deserve to hear them, we should make it."
