Sandra Bullock recently admitted she once became so disenchanted with the Hollywood roles written for women that she asked her agent to start sending her scripts and parts exclusively written for men.

"I thought of it a couple years ago before I did 'The Heat,' when I was looking for comedies," the Academy Award-winning actress recently told TIME magazine. "I said, 'I want to do what Jim Carrey's doing.' I was looking for something he didn't want."

Such is the life of a female actress in the sexist world of Hollywood, even one on the level of Bullock, whose films have generated more than $5 billion in box office earnings.

In time, Bullock's flip-the-script approach to finding work helped her earn the role of a take-no-prisoners political consultant in the film "Our Brand Is Crisis."

Word is the role was once earmarked for George Clooney, who served as one of the film's producers. Landing the role gave Bullock hope that all the sexism that now corrodes Tinseltown will one day be a thing of the past.

"Thank goodness Hollywood got a spanking," she said of the aftermath of the recent Sony hacking scandal, through which several internal studio emails were leaked revealing female actresses were being paid less than male counterparts.

"It's hard because why should I complain?" Bullock said. "Very few people get to do what we get to do. I know as a woman in the business, the likelihood of me still working at my age was almost impossible, and yet here I am."

According to Bullock, the women of Hollywood have now started to come together. The hope is their unity will bring change to the business-as-usual gender pay gap in the industry.

"All the women started bonding and going, 'Wow, why don't you get this?'" she said. "'You did an amazing job. Why aren't you getting part of the merchandising?' We came together, shared this information and supported each other."