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Change the way people see beauty pageants. Hit movie 2000 Miss Indigenous follows FBI agent Gracie (Sandra Bullock) as she goes undercover in a beauty pageant in order to prove herself at work to her male counterparts (played by Benjamin Bratt a Ernie Hudson).
Since she has been a tomboy all her life, the head of the pageant, Kathy Morningside (Candice Bergen), enlists expert Victor Melling (Michael Caine) to get Gracie competition-ready through a pretty intense makeover process. Throughout the film, the policewoman forms unexpected friendships, romances and is shocked when she discovers the life-threatening events that take place at the pageant.
In 2000, Ellen DeGeneres she revealed in an interview that the rom-com was actually based on her.
“When I was getting ready to co-host the Emmys, the writer saw me (on TV) learning how to walk in a dress and heels,” she shared with Parade magazine at the time. “My stylist at the time – a man – was teaching me, and it was funny. The Miss Indigenous the author saw it and thought it was great.”
Although based on the TV host, Bullock was also closely related to Grace, later admitting that doing the fight scenes – and she did many of her own stunts – was easier than the pageant scenes. In addition, he said Entertainment Tonight that she was trying to cut the swimsuit scene.
“That was a huge bone of contention for me. I was trying to write it out so many times,” the Speed shared actress. ‘It’s in the script. We already shot it – outside in San Antonio. “
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