Sandra Bullock will be playing the hilarious villain in the animated film "Minions," which will make its premiere on July 10, and the Hollywood A-list actress cannot help but gush about her new character as well as the lovable Minions who have chosen to deem her as their leader.
"It's a job I'm very proud to step up into. I think it's appropriate. I am a bit of a bitchy villain. And I think it's appropriate I was typecast. It's perfect," she said during the Hollywood premiere for the movie, according to Entertain This!
Hollywood does not often present amazing villainous roles for women, and that is why Bullock was so thrilled to get world class super villain Scarlet Overkill.
"They don't write villain roles for women. But in this I was able to do the funny villain. And that made me feel really good. And Scarlet Overkill has a good reason to be like she is. It's good to have a good reason," she said.
And while Bullock has heaped praises for Scarlet Overkill, the actress cannot help but gush about the Minions she got to work with in the film, saying that in real life, she actually has so much in common with them and she's basically a Minion herself.
"I'm always in a Minion state of mind," she admitted. "It's impossible for people to understand me. I'm constantly making odd sounds and things are always a disaster where I am. But somehow, I always get out alive. I'm basically a Minion."
Chris Melendandri, head of the animation studio Illumination Entertainment cannot help but be impressed with Scarlet Overkill himself.
"Scarlet Overkill has fantastic hair, wears great clothes and has a lethal uppercut. When we turn her loose on the world, she is going to come out standing on top," he said.
He added that the female super villain also has all the gadgetry and "accounterments" of villainy, such as lava guns and hypnotizing helmets. But despite being the movie's bad gal, one cannot help but admire her character, especially since she is voiced by America's sweetheart Bullock.
"This is a side to Sandra Bullock we haven't seen before," says Meledandri. "She is really enjoying playing with this villainy. But underneath there's a character you cannot help but fall in love with."
Meanwhile, Pierre Coffin, who directed the film with Kyle Balda describes Scarlet Overkill as an "unusual super villain."
"She is a dangerously charming woman, which could not have been easy in the late 1960s," he said.
