Uploaded September 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Director Alfonso Cuarón described the process of making Gravity as "painful and gruesome" for his star Sandra Bullock.
"Bodily fluids come to mind," says Bullock. "There was blood. Blisters."
The Oscar winner plays Dr. Ryan Stone, an astronaut untethered from her space shuttle following a debris storm. Cut adrift from her ride back to earth and her space partner (George Clooney) she floats through the inky darkness until she discovers the will and a way to survive.
Initially the filmmakers considered using the "vomit comet"—a plane that allows you to achieve weightlessness—to create the zero gravity of space. When that idea was rejected new technology was built to facilitate the film's thrilling and chilling outer space scenes.
"There were contraptions that took twenty minutes to get into," says Bullock. "that harnessed you and locked you into something that you had no control over once it started."
Director Alfonso Cuarón described the process of making Gravity as "painful and gruesome" for his star Sandra Bullock.
"Bodily fluids come to mind," says Bullock. "There was blood. Blisters."
The Oscar winner plays Dr. Ryan Stone, an astronaut untethered from her space shuttle following a debris storm. Cut adrift from her ride back to earth and her space partner (George Clooney) she floats through the inky darkness until she discovers the will and a way to survive.
Initially the filmmakers considered using the "vomit comet"—a plane that allows you to achieve weightlessness—to create the zero gravity of space. When that idea was rejected new technology was built to facilitate the film's thrilling and chilling outer space scenes.
"There were contraptions that took twenty minutes to get into," says Bullock. "that harnessed you and locked you into something that you had no control over once it started."
