“That Is The Tension Between Two Straight Women Who Are So f*cking Curious For Each Other”: a Tiktoker Breaks Down the Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman Shipping Narrative

16 Sep 2026, 15:47 · Thought Catalog

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Updated 3 minutes ago, September 16, 2026

@flopcastworkingtitle watchedBullock and Kidman do press for Practical Magic 2, and decided to speak to everyone shipping the pair. Their verdict: the two are “so f*cking curious for each other,” but nothing’s ever happened.

Their read is that if the co-stars had actually slept together, the dynamic would be different. “If they f*cked, they wouldn’t be acting like that,” one says. “They’d be super awkward. They wouldn’t be talking to each other.” The easy back-and-forth, in their eyes, is the tension of wanting and not acting on it.

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock together at the Directors Village premiere of “Practical Magic 2” in Los Angeles on August 31, 2026. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer / WireImage via Getty Images.

One of them compares it to a friendship of her own, the thigh touches and little grabs during a long hug where “nothing happened, but God, did they want it.”

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock together at the Directors Village in Los Angeles for the Practical Magic 2 premiere on August 31, 2026. Photo by John Shearer / WireImage via Getty Images.

The pair also sees old clips of Bullock and Kidman that have been resurfacing, as proof the two “have always had this weird little dynamic from years ago.” Their verdict on whether anything’s there: “One can only hope.”

At Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, the European premiere of “Practical Magic 2” drew stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock on August 26, 2026. Photo by Lia Toby / Getty Images.

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