Susan Sarandon has an excellent new interview in The Daily Beast this week. She tells so many interesting stories and there are so many interesting quotes, it’s sort of difficult to cull the best parts, so go here to read the full thing. Keep in mind – she’s 67 years old and she does shrooms at Burning Man and she had an affair with David Bowie once upon a time. She’s pretty badass. Some highlights:
She went to Burning Man last year but couldn’t go this year: “It’s fabulous. I can’t go this year because my daughter’s having a baby around that time, so I don’t think I’d feel very free to indulge if I was waiting for a message to see if she’s gone into labor. I went all around on a Segway and a bicycle, which was great…Despite the fact that there was more of a police presence there, it was a lot of fun and I’d definitely go back.”
Whether she takes psychedelics: “I’m not new to the idea of mushrooms. I don’t really like chemical things, really. Timothy Leary was a friend of mine, so that acid was nice and pure, but I’m not really looking for chemicals, and I don’t like to feel speedy. But I’ve done Ayahuasca and I’ve done mushrooms and things like that. But I like those drugs in the outdoors—I’m not a city-tripper. My attitude about marijuana or anything is, ‘Don’t be stoned if you have to pretend you’re not,’ so I’d never do drugs if I was taking care of my kids.”
Whether she would approve of an older man wooing a teenage daughter: “I wouldn’t want my 15-year-old daughter having sex! But for some reason, age difference is more accepted in cultures when the man is older and the woman is younger.”
On May-December romance in films, like Emma Stone & Colin Firth in Woody Allen’s new film: “You know, films are great when they reframe reality and cause conversations and dialogue. I’m much more bothered by violence in film—especially violence that’s connected in some way to be sexy. For me, that’s always been more problematic when I was guiding what my kids were looking at. And again, it has to do with the people. Emma Stone is very together, very centered. I have issues with Woody Allen… but that’s another story. But that’s always been accepted in films, that guys are with younger women.
Her Woody issues: “I think he really tore that family apart in a way that was horrible, and hasn’t really dealt with the aftermath. He’s always had a reputation for being with younger girls—I mean younger girls. And also, that young woman [Soon-Yi] was very vulnerable, and I think it was very hard for the siblings, and certainly for Mia. You just don’t go there. You don’t go there.”
High profile affairs: “I got married really young, which knocked out most of my 20s to be f–king around. There have been a couple of famous, pretty interesting ones. One rock star, and another actor. But I’m pretty much a nester and tend to be monogamous. [She’s asked about the rock star.] Bowie….Yeah. He’s worth idolizing. He’s extraordinary. That was a really interesting period… But Bowie’s just a really interesting person, and so bright. He’s a talent, and a painter, and… he’s great.
On Brad Pitt: “I love him. He’s a kind, thoughtful guy. Everyone thought, ‘Wow, he’s really cute,’ on set… I remember him being really cute, funny, and professional. When I saw an early cut and saw the scenes at the police station where he’s teasing, which he added, I thought, ‘This guy is something special.’ When he added that, I thought, ‘This guy is a character actor hidden in this gorgeous body.’”
She also talks about her dog’s Twitter, her support of Bill de Blasio, community policing and how Thelma & Louise could have ended up “just a little, tiny movie that was very mumblecore.” Susan is cooler than me. I think it’s safe to say she’s cooler than most of us. She banged David Bowie, for goodness sake.
As for the Woody Allen thing… I think her words speak for themselves. I will say that her complaint about Woody doesn’t seem very current? Or maybe I just need to parse more.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She is fantastic. A breath of fresh air just letting it all flow honestly, and with intelligence and thoughtfulness.
Ditto to everything you wrote. I love her!
No bolds or icons?
None necessary*, my dear.
*Full disclosure: I’m at LAX on my second Bloody Mary so I can’t emphasizececvcec properly.
mimif, you are so wise. A buzz at LAX is mandatory for survival!
Have a GOOD trip. Love ya.
Love her.
I have so much respect for her – she is honest – and that is a big deal.
Ditto, ditto, ditto. And she deserves to be my girl crush only because she said what she really thought about the WA story.
Love her!!
Absolutely. I love her! And she looks fabulous for her age…and looks like herself, not some weird plastic mask-y version, but an older aged version of herself.
I’d say she looks fabulous for any age.
I want to look just like her when I am 67.
Or even 57. 🙂
Perfectly said! Love her!
Kiddo, I agree with everything you said. This woman is so freaking awesome!
Love her too!! What a great interview 🙂
I agree she’s fabulous!
+1000
I just love her! Love the fact that she dares to speak negatively about Woody Allen, and love what she says about Pitt. I’ve recognized him as a character actor for years, who unfortunately is stuck being handsome lol.
God bless her!! atleast someone has balls in that industry to speak up against that “turd”
Diane keaton ,Scarlett et al ,plz learn smthn frm this)
I agree! Even if an actress even sure he molested Dylan, what he did with Soon-Yi is more than enough …like she said: You don’t go there. This as his wife’s daughter! Everytime I see them together with their children it makes me uncomfortable. You really wonder about those two girls they adopted and if anything happened with them.
Absolutely! It’s amazing how willing Hollywood people are to accept Soon-Yi. Even if you don’t believe Dylan (and I TOTALLY do!), the Soon-Yi issue is bad enough! It’s psychological incest, even if it isn’t in the literal sense. How can people look the other way when everything about this man’s romantic life is creepy as shit?!?
It is true, that people got so focused on the Dylan ‘issue’ (which I’m inclined to believe her as well) when as MaiGirl said “the Soon-yi issue is bad enough!” And Susan Sarandon said it perfectly. And said what she thought because it is an important enough issue that you should be willing to say it, hard as that might be. Not sure what CB means her issue with Allen isn’t “current,” does something like that really ‘go away?’
I love her too, for so many reasons. Her talent, her honesty, her laid back vibe, the fact that she has respected herself as she aged.
Definitely! She is a class act.
I so agree! Pitt is not a male Meryl Streep, but he’s a very good actor which many people don’t see because he’s handsome.
Love her!
+10000. She really is just so fabulous.
Susan Sarandon is one of the most incredible women living in entertainment today.
Incredible.
She can do and say whatever she wants. That’s a given!!
Hail Queen Sarandon!!
Hail!!!
the purple jumpsuit! no!!
Yes to all things Susan Sarandon, but yes, no to that purple jumpsuit!
About 10 years ago, I was shopping for office chairs – I think it was A I Friedman – and she came into the store. What I love about NYC – the sales associate, who was helping me, recognized Susan, but didn’t rush off to help her or brush me off AND Susan waited in that perfect balance of patience/impatience at having to wait for anything in NYC. She looked good, but not as good as Goldie Hawn who I saw the same day at a magazine shop. I
I’ve always liked her but was slightly disgusted that she sold out to McNeil. Why?
I love this woman.So ballsy, so smart, so nice.
Has she always been this bad ass?
She has been in pretty risky (risqué?) movies decades ago, I would say, yes, she has always been like this.
Oh thank [insert deity of choice here] that someone’s willing to speak out against Woody Allen. All the coverage for his new film refer to Dylan Farrow’s allegations as “bad PR” that Allen has gotten over. Good Lord.
She didn’t ‘go there’. What she spoke about was the damage that he caused to an entire family unit, by having a relationship with Soon Yi. I agree with that, it crossed over the boundary of human decency and he has never owned that it was so destructive. She doesn’t address the other allegations directly. I think she sees it as the situation with Soon Yi was bad enough. And he perpetuates the desirability of the young woman/older man theme in films.
Woody Allen isn’t the only filmmaker obsessed with young women. Most of Hollywood is too.
But she does say he has always liked “younger” girls and she emphasized the word “younger.” I think she went there, but kept her main criticisms to the thing about which there is no controversy – he wooed and wed his stepdaughter. As Susan said….you DON’T go there.
@Chris, She said that as well. But like Sarah said above, there was emphasis on younger.
I think what she said was damning enough. She’s gone further than most would dare—and I love her for it. During the “did he or didn’t he debate” with Dylan that has been in the news recently, I felt his relationship (and how it came to be) with Soon-Yi was swept under the carpet. I hate that the relationship is accepted just because they’ve been together a long time. And I hate that Colin Firth chose to do this movie with Woody, because Firth is generally more awesome than that.
I’m so disappointed in Colin Firth. So disappointed.
Yes, it is quite suprising that Colin Firth would work with Woody considering Dylan’s allegations against him. Colin has a son with Meg Tilly, who has been very vocal (and published novels) about the incestuous sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Wouldn’t that ring a bell for him? I guess not. I suppose he “ignores” it for the art of his craft.
I’m thinking that Susan is speaking about things that she knows for sure to be true, because they’re a matter of public record (his marriage) or because she knows other very young women who he pursued (she’s been in Hollywood long enough for this to probably be the case).
I sometimes use this form of argument when I’m speaking to people who try to defend him. The point isn’t that I don’t believe Dylan, because I do, but that even people who are skeptical about her claims have other reasons to find Woody creepy and immoral.
She kept to proven facts, but alluded to accusations.
I’ve always loved her, but this is seriously impressive. I don’t think any other major Hollywood figure has ever called him out on what he did. And you don’t even need to get into Dylan’s situation to find him unacceptably creepy, as Sarandon makes plain. Good for her.
I think once Dylan’s accusations came out Colin Firth was already signed up to make the movie.
Agree, OhDear. It’s a start.
It’s a pretty good start. Thank you, Susan!
Well, she’s never worked with Woody — probably for a reason. I remember Faye Dunaway had similar comments after working with Polanski, she felt he was cruel to her because she wasn’t a naive, innocent girl he enjoyed.
What a great interview. She’s fab.
Whenever I see her I just think of Team America
Not to be shallow, but she looks fantastic!
As for the Woody Allen comment – I totally agree with her and won’t watch his movies, although my husband thinks he is a genius. Even ignoring the allegations about Dylan, you don’t date the elder sister of your kids. Even now, he does not seem to recognize why his relationship with his partner’s daughter and the siblings of his own children was a bad idea. I can’t truck with that.
Love her! Brad Pitt? Eh. I think he certainly “tries” to be a character actor, but he’s relatively flat and usually comes
across to me as “Brad Pitt in a movie” except in rare cases. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy him as an actor – I do! But I accept him for what he is. His role in 12 Years a Slave was cringeworthy to me. It took me out of the movie and really stood out as “Brad Pitt in a cameo!” Again though, I do like him and like the fact that he seems smart and always aims to do and be more than his outward appearance might allow.
Agreed about Brad Pitt. He’s just not good.
C’mon. Fight Club.
I’d probably like him more if he were a character actor. I’ve like a few of his smaller, more unusual roles, but as a “movie star” he doesn’t do much for me.
Susan seems like a badass. I like it.
I don’t usually go out of my way to see a Brad Pitt movie, but I did see that Jesse James movie and he was excellent/riveting in it. I think he does better in these sorts of “character” roles versus gleaming, Adonis leading man roles.
I thought he was amazing in that movie. I was always at the edge of my seat wondering if he was going snap at any moment. I thought it was an excellent portrayal of Jesse James and would have liked to have seen him win an Oscar that year. Yes, I thought he was that good.
The only thing I didn’t like about him in 12 Years was his accent. It sounded as if he was trying to overplay his natural Missouri accent and it came across as if he had too many marbles in his mouth. I do love him in 12 Monkeys, he was very good in that.
it was also always my matra about drugs&co: nothing chemical. But I’m just occasionally marijuana person anyway
I really believe that people like Keith Richards and others never end so badly like some current stars because they never was so into “pharma-chemicals”
Ummmmm, I think cocaine and heroin are pretty harmful. Richards is just an exception not the rule.
Yes Keith Richards was the exception.He just did them,liked them and made no apologies about it.I think he only stopped doing coke because he fell out of that coconut tree.He only gave up heroin because he kept getting busted.
This idea that natural chemicals are less harmful than synthetic chemicals is silly, ignorant, and needs to be dismissed.
you’re probably right. But it always freaks me out idea to take things chemically amplified in some illegal lab.
I never done mushrooms and probably never will, don’t feel the need, but IF – I think it’s better idea than synthetic chemicals.
Marijuana is a gateway drug. Always has been. It isn’t deadly compared to other drugs but it isn’t exactly harmless either.
In the way that alcohol is a “gateway” drug to alcoholism.
Are you sure it’s a “gateway drug”? Or are people who engage in “risky” behaviour (ie. smoking weed…lol) just as likely to try other drugs?
That’s like saying “those who imbibe are more likely to become alcoholics than those who abstain…”
Marijuana is usually just the first drug you’re exposed to…
Caffeine, energy drinks, speed, cocaine, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I don’t smoke pot, but I have. But to categorize it under the same dangerousness of, let’s say, crack, or even legal pharmaceutical mind altering substances is utterly absurd. Once you tell kids that, and they try it, they’ll never believe another word you have to say on the issue/subject of hard drugs.
I would call alcohol and cigarettes bigger gateway drugs. I know more people that snuck swigs from bottles and got tipsy or took drags from a cigarette before they every got their hands on a joint.
Don’t believe the hype. Marijuana is only illegal because someone is making money keeping it that way.
well, what is harmless when used to much, to often anyway?
It’s not a gateway drug any more than booze is a gateway drug. I’ve smoked weed occasionally for the past 45 years of my life. I never took anything else, never had the desire. For me weed is a social relaxant, humour and music enhancer, and you don’t wake up with a hangover. People have addiction issues like a disease and they will abuse anything – Keith Richards is a classic example. When heroin nearly killed him he switched to coke. When coke nearly killed him he switched to booze. When booze nearly killed him…well maybe he’s back to just smoking weed.
Stop it already, it is not a gateway drug. I am so sick and tired of hearing that. Alcohol and tobacco are so much worse and as @lukie says people I know drank and smoked cigarettes way before weed. Add to it that they are both lethal and have caused countless deaths over the years. Nor is it addictive, that’s another load of BS. Weed calms people down, helps you sleep, and doesn’t leave a burn in your throat or chest like cigarettes. There have been years I’ve smoked and years I’ve gone without and I never went on to doing a laundry list of hard drugs.
To say emphatically that marijuana isn’t gateway drug and can’t lead to other drugs is ridiculous.
Maybe in your countries the dealers just sell you marijuana and that’s it, and those dealers are probably very ethical and do not sell to minors… but in other parts of the world… yes, you can descend pretty fast into other very bad drugs.
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One of my students started out watching his father smoke weed for his back pain. He commented with me how normal it was and non dangerous weed was. His father let him smoke at 15, and now they cannot get him out of meth addiction (at least that I know of), he already has a baby and cannot care for him, nor his gf. Bad idea all around.
It made me think how the dealers are open to spoil young people lives for the sake of getting them hooked for life.
money, money money.
@FingerBinger, and to say emphatically that it is, is ridiculous. There is something in life called free will. I can have a drink or two and stop, whereas some will drink the whole bottle. Smoking a joint doesn’t make you want to go out and snort a few lines, smoke crack, do shrooms or anything of the sort. People choose what they want to do, or not in life and they need to be accountable for their actions and stop playing the blame game.
Actually if you’re going to say anything about a gateway drug it’s got to be sugar! Tell me what’s worse for you…… eating a dozen donuts or smoking a joint? If you did that every day of your life what will kill you? It won’t be the weed! Some people have addictive personalities and some don’t. Weed isn’t addictive but sugar is.
1. I completely disagree that it is a “gateway” drug. There is no cause-and-effect there. There are other patterns that exist around drug use though, as in a person who is more likely to try an illegal drug would be more likely to try multiple illegal drugs than a totally sober person. But that is a “more or less likely” comparison, not that this particular drug causes a person to use other drugs.
2. Ennie’s comment about dealers brings up a good point. The fact that pot is lumped in with other drugs like heroin and cocaine and is kept illegal ENABLES the dealers to push more dangerous drugs on to pot users. Keeping pot illegal forces otherwise law abiding people into dark alleys with sketchy people who also sell other drugs. In LA, where medicinal pot is legal, pot users are NOT introduced to meth, coke or heroin. They wouldn’t know where to get those things because they get their pot from a store with beautiful glass showcases, plenty of lighting, and security. They discuss the different strains that work better for insomnia, chemo, muscle pain, anxiety, etc.
So true, Mrs McCubbins.
“Once you tell kids that, and they try it, they’ll never believe another word you have to say on the issue/subject of hard drugs. ”
Yes this so much! It’s why the D.A.R.E program sucks balls. Scare tactics rarely work.
Hope your day is going better than yesterday, Kiddo.
Thanks @TheOriginalKitten. It is by degrees, but I am taking it better. I appreciate your concern, sweetie.
And yes, balls.
It’s not a gateway drug. People use that as excuse all the time to rationalize why it should remain illegal and/or explain why some turned to the harder drugs. I smoked pot in college but I didn’t turn around & start using the harder drugs. And since graduating college about 10 years ago, I haven’t touch it.
@Ennie-Your story about your student, don’t you think that has more to w/that student’s up bringing, education, and environment & not so much w/pot?
Krispy Creme is the gateway to Heaven on earth.
We could argue all day about whether it’s a “gateway drug,” but there are zero fatalities on record as a result of marijuana use. Like, zero. Zilch. Sugar and caffeine are drugs, too, by the way.
@MAF he was raised believing it was normal and was let smoke in his teens, unsupervised most probably, a plot of freedom.
I read how some of the posters are commenting about legal places to shop for weed for medical purposes…. do they sell to teens? is it legal? Because my understudying when I read about weed in Northamerica is that people usually get into it in their teens… so then must be a dealer who sells them the weed or a relative who gives it to them.
Then it would be the same illegality as in other countries, with the danger of getting into other drugs, wouldn’t it?
I think that being a teen and getting into addictive substances is a huge no. Mostly, smoking tobacco does not diminish your chances for the future, restricted use of other drugs (alcohol, weed ) is probably the same, but it is a very difficult balance to achieve, many people fall into addiction because as immature pople, they turn to the substance for silly things and not knowing how to deal with disappointment or failure.
i really dont understand the typical excuse of “i didnt f** around in my 20s so i needed to cheat”. yeah because if you f** 50 guys in your twenties you will suddenly turn down Brad Pitt in his prime, right? thats such a weird logic. as if someone turns down sex because they had a lot before. “nah, i already got laid in my twenties, no need to bone Bowie”
LOL! Excellent point Maria:)
I don’t think that is what she is saying. She was saying she hasn’t had that many “affairs” (romantic encounters), because she was married during her 20s, a time when many people are dating a lot of people. I think she was saying in her life, she hasn’t had many partners because she tends to be monogamous. I took it as Bowie was one out of a very small group of men in her life.
I read it the same way that Tiffany did. I don’t think she’s saying she cheated on her first husband. I think she’s saying that she wasn’t dating in her 20s, so there weren’t that many years between that marriage and Tim Robbins for her to rack up affairs with other famous men.
White Palace was an excellent movie 🙂
I love White Palace. I’ve seen it like five times. Every time it came on TV I would watch it.
I think the point she made about Woody. So much of the conversation has hinged upon Dylan and whether you believe the criminal accusations about him. She makes an excellent point though. Even IF you don’t believe Woody did anything criminal, he still exploited the relationship he had with Soon-Yi, deeply betrayed Mia and did a huge amount of harm to his kids – and that is still worth condemning. All Woody’s defenders need to be aware of exactly what they are defending.
Woody and Mia had not been a couple for 4 years when he took up with Soon-Yi.
not so much. They broke up after Mia Farrow found nude pictures of Soon Yi which belonged to Woody. evidently he had been cheating on his partner with her daughter for a year.
That is not true.
That’s not true, but even if it was, I don’t think that exonerates him. It is very, very strange and very, very creepy to date the child of a former partner, especially if that child was a minor when you first met. I know a couple of people in my life who’ve been involved with their exes’ adult children, and they’re pretty much condemned by the community.
She was still the sister of his kids. That is totally, completely messed up.
OK, I won’t defend the info since I found it on Wikipedia 😉 nonetheless, I think it was a ridiculously hurtful and outlandishly selfish thing to do.
but it is still a betrayal… how many men actually get on with their partner’s daughters or viceversa? lest say their family life was complicated.
After Mia gave birth to Ronan they were no longer romantically involved. They were the parents of three children together so that had still had some sort of a relationship.
One of the things that bugs me about the endless younger women/old men situations in movies is that it’s such relentless non-stop propaganda perpetuated by old men. Most young women prefer young men as sexual partners but if you watch movies, young women are falling all over men old enough to be their fathers/grandfathers which just isn’t realistic. Old men’s attractiveness is artificially inflated while old women are constantly being put down.
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excellent comment!
There’s nothing wrong with being with old men, but to act like every girl wants a piece of that is ridiculous.
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In real life, there are few romances between generations, because it is gross for most of us. I think that the film industry perpetuates the myth of older men/younger woman, because there are so many dirty old men, and it is men who have owned, and have run the industry. It was always confusing to me as a child, that these beautiful girls wanted a grumpy old man. Then I thought that it was because of the money and admiration that grumpy old men could offer them. Now as an adult, I see that it doesn’t matter how much money they have – I have my standards, and gross is gross. Old men are still dirty old men, who approach much younger women.
Unfortunately the dialogue and conversation Susan talks about, when reality is reframed in films, has never happened concerning this, it hasn’t even been an issue. Movies have shown this kind of coupling for decades, and after so many repetitions, we don’t see it as being unusual. Fantasy or reality? Who would most profit from this extended period of wooing time? Men. Feeling good about themselves, has always been important to them – and what could be better to restart what is “flagging” at their age, than a nubile young woman? Watching and enjoying these fantasies, is so dismissive of his contemporaries – wives, mothers, daughters: a sort of porn in the family room.
Geez, the Woody Allen thing… His “daughter” is probably too obedient, to see it any other way; as well as being in love with her father. Most girls are, but most of us would leave being in love with our fathers, at that.
” I think that the film industry perpetuates the myth of older men/younger woman, because there are so many dirty old men, and it is men who have owned, and have run the industry. It was always confusing to me as a child, that these beautiful girls wanted a grumpy old man”
I agree 100%
Old men, or better, certain old men, want to believe to be attractive until they are 100 years old. The sad truth is, when you see a relationship with a great age gap, there’s some kind of materialistic interest (money, social position, etc.), or, if not the case, the younger one has personal issues who make her (or him) preferring older partners.
Obviously, there are a few exceptions to this rule, but they are still exceptions, not the rule.
Agreed. There are people who are genuinely attracted to much older people, and other couples who are truly in love. I have nothing against them. But the way Hollywood sells it, these relationships are roughly half of the couples out there. That doesn’t reflect reality, and it’s convinced so many men that women young enough to be their daughters are interested in them (at least if online dating messages are anything to go on).
YES! +1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00o—you get the point.
it’s the money the older men usually have. nice cars, trucks, clothes, the monetary gain for the younger woume, even only status.
+1 Gorgonia, had not seen your comment.
This is such an excellent point that is so rarely addressed, and everyone’s comments are so thoughtful. Regarding this issue, the talk generally revolves around tolerance for and/or gender-based contradictions between May-December relationships, yet that overlooks the fact that, even with those with materialistic motivations, young women are by and large attracted to men who are within their same generational span.There is no doubt there is a correlation with how many older men “run” Hollywood’s production empire and how many 20+ year older man/woman relationships are shown on screen.
Yes..a lot of things about old men are ‘artficially inflated’ …lol. I immediately thought of viagra. So easily distracted.
Love Susan! Not only is she stunningly beautiful on the outside – how awesome of her to go on record re: perv WA.
Probably the best thing I’ve read all day. Bowie…wow…just..wow.
Always loved her honesty. Then new Emma Stone movie is sickening not to mention she is also doing the 2nd Woody film with old man Joaquin Phoenix. Yuck!
“Old man Joaquin Phoenix”????? The guy is 39 years old. You talk as if he’s a deaf bald man wearing a diaper and gumming his vegetables at the local nursing home. He’s bizarre and difficult, but he’s not old unless you’re a teenager.
Hate to break it to ya, but yes, he is old. Emma is only 24-25 so compared to her he IS old and I guess it speaks to the normalization of these age gaps in film that we think nothing of it and that the man must be “deaf, bald, and diaper wearing” to be considered “old” while a woman of the same age would be considered old, hell, a woman in her 30s would be considered old by Hollywood standards (who, let’s face it, set the standards for the rest of the world. That’s the power of the media).
Can we split the difference, Observer? I’m a woman who’s coming up on 34 in a few days, and I don’t think that’s anything like old. Neither is 39. You can be “too old” – Joaquin is definitely too old for Emma and I’d be too old for a 24-year-old too – without being “old” per se.
@Observer – I think you’re conflating things here. Starfan did not say that Joaquin Phoenix was too old to star as the love interest of Emma Stone. She said he was an “old man”. I did not say that Phoenix and Stone are a good age combo – In fact, I didn’t mention Emma Stone, nor imply that a woman is old at thirty. I’m confused that you’re saying a 39 year old man is “old”, yet angered that a 30 year old woman would be considered old. Neither is old – at all. If you want to talk about “normalization of age gaps in film”, that’s an entirely different conversation, and you would discover we are on the same side.
I don’t think Susan Sarandon, the topic of the thread, would have a problem with age gaps – regardless of gender. She is twelve years older than long time former partner Tim Robbins, and (I think) answered the question delicately.
Sorry, I misunderstood your comment.
I meant in comparison to Emma’s age, of course I don’t think 39 is old for either gender!
I like her. She’s very sexy, always has been. But tbh….all I can think about is what it would have been like to bang David Bowie. Also, I don’t know what’s up with me, but I keep posting duplicate comments. Must be the shroomballs.
I just really adore her.
She´s so great, I wanna be her when I grow up.
My dying wish is to smoke a huge fattie with Susan.
And mine is to bang Bowie 😉 Okay, maybe not exactly, but he does have a lifetime position in my top five.
Sigh..even though she banged my husband I still love her. Dammit Janet.
I like her confidence, and that she’s not afraid to talk about things where others shy away. She stayed young in her mind, and that seems to help a lot with the outer appearance. And she does live an active life aside from movie making. An admirable woman.
She is my spirit animal.
LOVE!
She’s amazing, can’t say anything more than that.
Love her because she owns what she says. She won’t say it and take it back like most actresses.
Thank you Susan Sarandon for not kissing that old pervert’s butt!
These quotes are the perfect balance of hipness and common sense.
Rare these days.
What a cool person. I can only hope to be so grounded and insightful when I reach my sixties.
Susan was on WWHL one night and had her buddy Ralph Fiennes come along to keep her company on the interview, . They were hysterical. She’s bad ass for sure and so young at heart but not in an embarrassing way, just effortlessly cool. I couldn’t believe she was 67, and she and Ralph were adorable together. She is someone who enjoys life for sure. I adore her. And she did just the right amount of touch-ups to keep herself looking fresh but not unrecognizable or too done.
Bowie is a beyond fascinating man and brilliant and interested in so many things, art history, painter. I can see why he and Iman fell in love. I would think someone like him would be a snob in interviews but back in the early 2000s when he would interview for albums he was goofy and funny and sometimes bonkers and I fell in love with him. He came out as bisexual, and I mean really bisexual, called himself gay, at a point when it should have destroyed him back in his early heydey. But even heterosexual rockers appreciate great music and his career soared because of the music, not letting his sexuality overshadow it.
Icons like these two put our current popstars and actresses to shame, don’t they, because they are so tryhardy?
Here’s a cute clip of Bowie in my in love with him days. I think the was early 50s. He’s so funny and then singing one of my favorite songs of his, Heroes.
I can see him and Susan together, two hot people and smart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp9q3QNaQ
I take it back. He wasn’t early 50s in that clip. He was 55 and so handsome and boyish.
He is not gay or even bi, and he never was. It was all part of his shock–act– stage– persona.
He was always heterosexual and you could tell by the chemistry he had with Iman when they were on rosie (see youtube) in the 90s. He always loved women.
That said, I do think he might have experimented but that he didn’t truly like it but went along with the ‘act’ because it gave him attention. I think he even said as much in some interview.
I read several articles and biographies that told stories about Bowie and Jagger hooking up when Jagger was married. Who knows if any of it was true. I got the impression that sex and drugs…in many forms…where part of the scene. No one labeled drug use as addiction. Nor did they label Bowie and Jagger sleeping together as homosexuality. It’s just sex, drugs and rocknroll.
That’s not true. The man he studied mime from and many avante garde ideas while trying to hit it big he had an affair with and it was before he met his first wife who was bisexual herself. Their marriage was a free for all.. In his own words, he was very promiscuous. The man is seen talking about Bowie in the BBC documentary on Bowie and it was no secret. The great guitarist who became a part of his early music said Bowie was very deep into the scene.
Sure, the Ziggy Stardust persona was very flamboyant and all for show for those two albums as an alter ego, but he was very equal opportunity sexually in his early days and it was just an extension of experimenting for him in all areas sexually. He has denied an affair with Jagger, but others say they were very infatuated with each other and did sleep together often and/or with women involved in it.
I’d like to be her if I grow up.
…but don’t grow up, lunchcoma. We like you the way you are. 😉
Honestly, I don’t ever plan to grow up, myself. I cut myself loose from time in my late 30s and have never looked back. Time is kind of an asshat.
…but don’t grow up, lunchcoma. We like you just the way you are. 😉
Honestly, I don’t ever plan to grow up, myself. I cut myself loose from time in my late 30s and have never looked back. Time is kind of an asshat.
I generally don’t agree with Susan’s politics. I lean right and she…well, doesn’t. But on some things, given my heavy libertarian leanings, I think she’s right on the money. As a WOMAN however, I think Susan Sarandon is beyond awesome. She is ballsy, outspoken, earthy, honest – even when I disagree with her – I appreciate her passion. She is a wonderful actress and much of that, I feel, stems from her confidence of what is and what isn’t for her. Like the Woody Allen thing – for her, that was just wrong. Period. There was no equivocating. No rationalizing. For her, it was just wrong. She is one of the few people in this world with whom I can disagree politically, yet respect immensely and find endlessly fascinating and refreshing. She also strikes me as someone who, if in need of solid sage advice, would be the perfect person to talk to. She knows herself. And I love that about her.
It seems Susan is a master wordsmith – without being accusatory, she makes her point like an obsidian arrow
She is such an amazing actress and an incredible woman. It’s good to see someone speaking up against Woody. I don’t agree with her about everything but she is a remarkable lady.