Sandra Bullock at the premiere of The Lost City in New York City Photo: Jamie McCarthy (Getty Images)
Looking back on her long and illustrious career, Sandra Bullock has one movie she wished she hadn’t made: A small sequel called Speed 2: Cruise Control.
“I have a [that] Nobody came by and I’m still embarrassed that I was there,” Bullock said in an interview with Too Fab. “It’s called Speed 2. I’ve been very vocal about it. Makes no sense. Slow boat. Slowly towards an island.”
“I wish I hadn’t done that, and there weren’t any fans that I know who came except you,” Bullock tells the interviewer, who shared his admiration for the film as a teenager.
“I feel like there was a kind of cult love to it as well,” says her Lost City co-star Daniel Radcliffe, presumably to ease her embarrassment.
“Very calm! Like five people. Him and the other four 12-year-olds who watched the slow boat make its way to the tiny island,” Bullock replies.
In addition to the less-than-suspenseful plot and costly stunt work, many complained that Keanu Reeves didn’t return for the second installment as his character Jack Traven (a move that landed him in “movie jail” at Fox). Jason Patric was brought in to star alongside Bullock in the sequel as her boyfriend. Together, the two try to prevent the cruise ship they are vacationing on from crashing into an oil tanker.
Reeves has commented on Speed 2’s script several times, most recently in December during an interview on The Graham Norton Show.
“I didn’t react to the script at the time. I really wanted to work with Sandra Bullock, I loved playing Jack Traven and I loved speed, but an ocean liner? I didn’t mind the artists involved, but at the time I felt like it just wasn’t right,” Reeves said.
Jan de Bont directed both speed films. While Graham Yost was writing the screenplay for the first film, Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson were recruited to write Speed 2. The film was a critical flop, but it also grossed just $164 million at the national and international box office on a budget of $160 million.
Bullock will soon be starring in adventure comedy The Lost City, in which she stars alongside Radcliffe, Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt. The Lost City hits theaters worldwide on March 25th.