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Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock is proving it's deeper than movies after recently showing off her musical skills during an appearance on "The Jonathan Ross Show."
Bullock showed off her lyrical skills by rapping iconic rap group Sugarhill Gang‘s “Rapper’s Delight.”
Is there anything Sandra Bullock can’t do? The single mother and Oscar winner (already a frontrunner for a second Academy Award for Gravity) added another line to her impressive resume — rapper — when she visited Britain’s The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday, Oct. 12. The 49-year-old actress — who looked stunning in black shorts, a black-and-white jacket, and black heels — was on the show to promote her acclaimed new movie, Gravity, also starring George Clooney. But the highlight of her appearance was an impromptu performance of the 1979 hip hop classic “Rapper’s Delight,” by the Sugarhill Gang. (Us Magazine)
During the televised interview, Sandra credited her memorization to trying to impress a boy.
We’re starting to seriously think Sandra Bullock is invincible. First, her space thriller Gravity is killing it at the box office. Yes, Bullock can beat out Tom Hanks. So anyone who still thinks a woman can’t carry a film, how does $191.4 million worldwide to date sound? Oh yes, and she knows Rapper’s Delight, which she said to Jonathan Ross that she learned to impress a boy. “I was like, ‘Next time I go to that dance, I’m going to know every word. I’m going to make sure he sees me lip-syncing it, and I’m going,’ ” said Bullock. We bet her toddler Louis, who plays basketball with George Clooney, is impressed. (USA Today)
Appearing on the late night show to promote her a movie last year, actress Vanessa Hudgens recited Tyga’s “Rack City” hit.
The conversation turned to music, after Fallon asked her what she was listening to. Hudgens named a number of groups, like the Black Keys and Elbow. Jimmy spoofed that he was listening to Sade, and Vanessa countered with Rack City. Jimmy didn’t know the song, so Vanessa sang a verse of the, shall we say, bouncy tune. “And ‘Rack City?’ Rack, rack, rack city chick. Rack, rack, rack city chick,” Hudgens recited to Fallon when he said he was unaware of the tune. “Throwin’ hundreds, hundreds! Hundreds, hundreds. [laughs] That’s my slogan.” (The Improper)
In 2011, Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow showed off her love for rap by reciting N.W.A.‘s “Gangsta Gangsta” on a talk show.
“[Straight Outta Compton?] It’s a classic N.W.A. album,” Paltrow told BBC host Graham Norton before being asked to rap. “You want me to [rap?] There’s one word I can’t say. OK — ‘Yo, here’s a little something about a ‘uh’ like me, never should have been let out the penitentiary/Ice Cube, I like to say that I’m a crazy motherf*cker from around the way/Since I was a youth, I smoked weed out/Now I’m the motherf*cker that you read about.’ [laughs]” (“The Graham Norton Show”)
Check out Sandra Bullock’s interview:
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