Sandra Bullock thought 'The Blind Side' would be 'schmaltzy and soft'

). Despite the raised eyebrows, snickering, and worse from many around them, the Tuohys wound up adopting Oher as their son and helped him get into college and eventually join the NFL, where he now plays left tackle for the Baltimore Ravens.Erin Brockovich

"At the end of the day, Leigh Anne took a little hand pistol out of her glove compartment and said, 'Y'all just need to carry one of these,"' Bullock remembers. "I kid you not. If you're her friend, she would stop at nothing to get done what she needed to get done for you. If you're her enemy, forget about it — you're going to wish you were dead."

Having honed her own parenting skills with her husband Jesse James' three children, Bullock could certainly relate to Tuohy's protective instincts. "I'm a stepmother, which because of Disney always has a witch's hat attached to it," says the star. "But wanting the best for someone — especially when they're a child — I think should be an innate part of all of us.

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