--- title: George Clooney: Rewrite Men's Movie Roles for Women description: Clooney and "Our Brand is Crisis" co-producer Grant Heslov cast Sandra Bullock in a role originally written for a man to play. canonical: https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-12T13:57:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:38.830Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: George Clooney Wants Hollywood to Rewrite Men's Roles for Women og:description: The actor cast Sandra Bullock in a role originally written for a man to play og:url: https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10a61125c2741c3b/69886353428a9e8302ccf152/gettyimages-487798640.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sandra Bullock George Clooney og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: George Clooney Wants Hollywood to Rewrite Men's Roles for Women twitter:description: The actor cast Sandra Bullock in a role originally written for a man to play twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10a61125c2741c3b/69886353428a9e8302ccf152/gettyimages-487798640.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # George Clooney Wants Hollywood to Rewrite Men's Roles for Women > Sponsored content. 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Sandra Bullock and George Clooney attend a premiere during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11, 2015.George Pimentel—Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Sep 12, 2015 1:57 PM UTC George Clooney may not have the cure-all for sexism in Hollywood, but at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday, he proposed one [surprising simple solution](http://www.thewrap.com/george-clooneys-answer-to-hollywood-sexism-a-lot-more-male-roles-should-be-rewritten-for-women/?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=Alert&utm%5Fterm=breaking-news): Rewrite roles originally intended for men to be played by women. In reality, it was Sandra Bullock, not Clooney himself, who inspired this line of thinking, _The Wrap_ reports. When Bullock read the script for _Our Brand Is Crisis_, a film about an American political consulting firm managing a presidential campaign in Bolivia, she identified a role she was interested in playing. The problem? The role, loosely based on real-life political consultant James Carville, was written for a man to play. Bullock called Clooney, the movie’s co-producer and her _Gravity_ co-star, to inquire about retooling the part so that she might play it. According to Clooney, as soon as Bullock requested to play the part, the movie began moving from development toward production. Many women in Hollywood have been outspoken about the lack of interesting roles for women in film. Their reports are backed by research, including a 2015 [study](http://variety.com/2015/film/news/women-lead-roles-in-movies-study-hunger-games-gone-girl-1201429016/) from San Diego State University that found that women comprised just 12% of protagonists in the highest-earning films of 2014. Bullock is one of a handful of top actresses playing gender-switched roles in upcoming movies. Emily Blunt’s FBI agent in _Sicario_, out Sept. 18, was originally conceived for a man, as was Julia Roberts’ part in the forthcoming _Secret in Their Eyes_. “There’s a lot more out there if people just started thinking,” Clooney [said](http://www.thewrap.com/george-clooneys-answer-to-hollywood-sexism-a-lot-more-male-roles-should-be-rewritten-for-women/?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=Alert&utm%5Fterm=breaking-news) after _Our Brand Is Crisis_, which hits theaters Oct. 30, premiered in Toronto. \[[_The Wrap_](http://www.thewrap.com/george-clooneys-answer-to-hollywood-sexism-a-lot-more-male-roles-should-be-rewritten-for-women/?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=Alert&utm%5Fterm=breaking-news)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/"},"headline":"George Clooney Wants Hollywood to Rewrite Men's Roles for Women","datePublished":"2015-09-12T13:57:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:38.830Z","description":"Clooney and \"Our Brand is Crisis\" co-producer Grant Heslov cast Sandra Bullock in a role originally written for a man to play","url":"https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Hollywood","George Clooney"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10a61125c2741c3b/69886353428a9e8302ccf152/gettyimages-487798640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10a61125c2741c3b/69886353428a9e8302ccf152/gettyimages-487798640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sandra Bullock George Clooney","caption":"Sandra Bullock George Clooney","creditText":"George Pimentel—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/","name":"George Clooney Wants Hollywood to Rewrite Men's Roles for Women"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Melinda Gates on Women's Biggest Problem in the Workplace","description":"Melinda Gates talks to TIME's Belinda Luscombe about the biggest problem for women in the workplace","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/umfaJAjz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-11-19T23:55:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/umfaJAjz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4032456/george-clooney-hollywood-sexism/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```