It may be jaw-dropping for some viewers to see a Bolivian presidential candidate hire an American political consultant to help him win his presidential election, but to the stars of "Our Brand Is Crisis," this seems pretty commonplace.

"I was surprised, but I was not shocked," Sandra Bullock, who plays "Calamity" Jane Bodine, tells Made In Hollywood. "Politics have always been there. Big business wants to win, and they'll just hire anybody who they think can get the job done. They don't care what side they're on. Make it so I win, and then go about your business. I was not shocked at all."

But even though she isn't shocked by these tactics, Bullock still finds them disheartening.

"It's frightening knowledge," she says. "It's frightening that adults behave that way. It's frightening that some adults are not affected by the consequences of destroying others' lives for the sole purpose of the win. But that exists in every big business - banking, tobacco, soda. I mean, there's people like these people in every big business. They exist everywhere. Anything that has a public image attached to it will fight vigorously in order to sell and execute the image that they want."

Echoes Bullock's costar Billy Bob Thornton - who plays Pat Candy, Jane's nemesis who leads the opposing campaign: "They're like intellectual mercenaries. A mercenary doesn't care what foreign leader they're killing or getting back from being kidnapped. That's their job, that's what they do."

Watch Bullock and Thornton go head-to-head on the big screen when the David Gordon Green-directed dramedy hits theaters on Friday.

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