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Sandra Bullock recalled an emotional meeting with the “Black Panther” cast backstage during Sunday’s Academy Awards.

“I started to cry backstage when I was telling [the ‘Black Panther’ cast] how much the film meant to me as a woman, but how much it meant to me as a mother,” the Oscar-winning actress told Access Hollywood. “That says a lot about where we are in this world and in the world of superheroes.”

Bullock, 53, the mother of two African-American children, son Louis, 8, and daughter Laila, 5, praised Marvel for setting the bar where inclusion is concerned.

“I’m so grateful to Marvel because about five years ago, my son asked me if there were any brown Legos,” Bullock explained. “And I said, ‘Yes, there are,’ and I got a Sharpie and I turned Spider-Man brown, I turned the Legos brown, and I don’t have to turn them brown anymore.”

Though her children are still too young to see the film, which has grossed over $500 million domestically, they’re still fans of Chadwick Boseman‘s King T’Challa.

“I bought her swag before it even came on. She runs around in the ‘Black Panther’ mask. Which is scary when she comes out of the dark,” Bullock said.