Sandra Bullock is all about the comedy. She said in an on-set interview with ET in 2000 that she had been searching for a movie that would allow her to be funny and real. She said, "Through the years I'd always looked for something that had a lot of physical comedy and sort of the great fish-out-of-water story and having to do something that they would never normally do. . . . I didn't read a lot of scripts for women that had that sort of humour. It was always sort of like we're supposed to keep it together and look relatively attractive. . . . This is sort of nice because it takes a person from one end to the other end and it just shows a side to women and men — it shows the men what women really go through and it shows women what they really don't have to go through."