Sandra Bullock on Her Privacy: 'You Come After My Son, I'm Gonna Go Postal'

Sandra Bullock takes the cover of Glamour‘s November 2015 issue, on newsstands October 13.

Here’s what the 51-year-old Our Brand Is Crisis actress had to share with the mag:

On asking to play the male role in Our Brand Is Crisis: “I did as my mother did: I put my blinders on and blazed forward. Sometimes you get a no. But I expect the no. I don’t expect the yes. With this I got very nervous. I didn’t know if George had made this for himself. But the response was ‘We’re cool with it.’ And then the role�”I mean, it was so beautifully written for a man. It wasn’t one of those things where you go, ‘Hmm, how do we change it to a woman?’ You just change the sex; that was pretty much it. She’s human. She deals with addiction; she deals with mental illness. She’s brilliant at what she does, and she gets lost in the fact that all she cares about is a win. You look at our world�”and back to my son: How do you raise a child to not make it all about the win when all we see in our world is people saying, ‘In order to have success, you have to win’?”

On her privacy: “I’ve always been insanely private. When I [first] stepped into this, it was still loud. The tabloids were violating. I went, ‘How can people write that?’ I spent a year and a half, two years, distraught, saying, ‘You can’t say these lies.’ I spent years fighting battles you can’t win. As loud as it’s gotten now, it’s the same panic. As much as I profess to being able to shut it out, there are times I can’t, like when it’s hurtful to people I care about. Me, I get it. But when it hurts other people? Like, you come after my son, I’m gonna go postal. But they do.”

On if she still has her high school cheerleader outfit: “Embarrassingly, yes. That might come in handy some sexy night. I don’t know who I’m saving it for. I want to be buried in it.”

For more from Sandra, visit Glamour.com.