Who was Bryan Randall?
As Bullock herself pointed out, Randall was a regular guy (albeit “a saint,” as she called him, “evolved on a level that is not human”), before it became apparent in 2016 that they were a couple. But the handsome photographer from Portland, Ore., had also done some modeling in the past, including for the pages of Vogue, so it wasn’t as if he’d never spent long hours under hot lights or hadn’t worked with very famous people.
“Who cares how much somebody makes for a living? In the end, we’re all going to be old and wrinkled,” Bullock cracked in a 1999 interview, talking about what was really important when it came to love and partnership. “You’d like to know that that person can make you laugh and think, you know, can really stimulate you and excite you when they’re gone and you think about them. Somebody you can admire and be proud of and sit back and go, ‘This is my man.’ And whether or not he’s a millionaire or he’s a painter, a musician or somebody who just, you know, shucks clams, it’s that respect level that we forget to look for.”
