In 2010, Sandra Bullock gained the Academy Award for finest actress for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy within the movie The Blind Side.
The film was impressed by the real-life story of a Tennessee household that took in and adopted Michael Oher, who would later have a profession within the National Football League (NFL).
Over the previous week, the phantasm of The Blind Side has been shattered after Oher accused the Tuohy household of by no means truly adopting him and forcing him right into a conservatorship for his or her financial profit. The Tuohy’s say Oher beforehand tried to shake them down for $US15 million.
Given the hit film’s resurgence within the news, some individuals have questioned if Bullock’s Oscar ought to be revoked, a notion that Quinton Aaron, who portrayed Oher within the film, disagrees with.
“There’s a lot of hate being spread around nowadays. And there’s you know, someone asked me, there’s people saying things that, ‘Oh maybe you should strip Sandra of her title … her Oscar.’ I’m like, ‘For what?’” Aaron advised Fox News Digital.
“There’s nothing that says she had anything to do with this. She was an actress who got hired to do a job, and she did it so well that she was rewarded for it. Why would you take that reward just because of what’s going on today, 14 years later?
“I wish they would just leave her alone because, you know, she’s going through her own things right now, you know with the love she just lost. You know, she suffered a great loss,” Aaron stated, referencing the current loss of life of Bullock’s longtime companion, Bryan Randall.
Randall handed away on the age of 57 after a three-year battle with ALS, his household stated in a press release August 5.
“I’m far too familiar with the tragedy of losing a loved one, and it’s no easy feat. … My thoughts and prayers go out to her as well,” Aaron continued.
“And the last thing she needs is for the internet trolls to be coming at her talking about something, ‘We should take her Oscar.’ Like just — go sit down. Go. Stay home, sit down, get a job. You know what I mean? Just stop, leave her alone.”
“I’m a teddy bear, I like to think of myself as a teddy bear, but if you mess with the people I love, I will become a grizzly bear, just saying.”
Aaron, whose new single Lead With Love is out now, says that his bond with Bullock runs deep.
“I loved her, her attitude about everything. You know, she was so welcoming. She was professional, but funny. Like, she’s hilarious. People don’t know … she’s hilarious,” he stated.
“Like the jokes we had, and games we played — she created – on set for us actors to do among each other. And then some of the advice, the word’s of wisdom she’s given me that I took to heart. She’s definitely played a big part and had a huge impact on my life,” he stated of the actress.
“I think we’ll have that kind of connection for the rest of our lives with one another, because I hold her in my heart as … a real special friend.”
“A few months before I got the call to do the part, I lost my mom. And so it was a very dark and cold Christmas in New York.
Aaron said a few months before he scored the role of Oher in The Blind Side, his mother tragically died. He was living in New York with his brother at the time.
“[I] couldn’t get a job all winter, had no lights, no money for food, was going back and forth to court trying to keep the place over our head,” he stated.
“And the day that I got the eviction call from the sheriff’s department I hung up. It [rang] again, and I answered it. It was the production company telling me they wanted me to be in The Blind Side.
“And so I literally went from being told that I’m getting evicted in 72 hours to being told that I’m being flown, my brother and I are being flown, to Atlanta to do this movie that changed our lives.
“Everyone that was involved with [The Blind Side] holds a very near and dear place in my heart, and they will for the rest of my life. The Tuohys, Michael Oher. [Whether] we spent 10, 20 years together or two months or days together, I love them because of what that story did for so many people and for me personally.”
This story initially appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission
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