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 Susan Sarandon
Interview By: Ray Dademo
“Junket Land”, as Susan Sarandon affectionately calls making the
rounds of promotion, is going to be her home for quite sometime. In
addition to doing press for three winter releases, Sarandon is gearing up
for four more films, to be released in 2005. Before she can get to the
movies, however, she's forced to field endless questions about what has
turned her into a middle-aged sex symbol; a modern day Mrs. Robinson. To
anyone who's been watching, Susan Sarandon seems to be improving with age.
As she approaches sixty (can you believe that?), it looks like she's been
revitalized by a newfound confidence and strength (as she would put it,
she's become a "force.").
"Don't smoke," she says succinctly, as though that were the fountain of
youth. “That’s what I keep saying to every kid that asks me.” (Kids, take
note.)
Nevertheless, as Ms. Sarandon ages gracefully, her choices in film roles
seem to fade into the background. Since the year 2000, she has done
voice-over work for Rugrats in Paris and Cats & Dogs, and languished
in B-movie fare like The Banger Sisters and Shall We Dance? It appears
as though Sarandon is becoming better-known for pontificating as a
celebrity-activist than she is for being an Oscar-winning actress. As a
matter of fact, as a preface to an interview, she immediately begins
firing off the political. This might serve as a metaphor for the current
state her career is in: politics before cinema.
Still, Sarandon keeps a rosy outlook when it comes to what seems like an
absence from movies. “I've done of little ensemble pieces -- it's been
kind of great in terms of flexibility and they've been really fun parts,
so I don't really mind that it isn't "my film." It's been kind of great to
stay on the bicycle and keep going in little bits and pieces because it
gives me a lot of flexibility at home.”
One of those “little bits and pieces” is Alfie, a new release pairing
Sarandon with the much-younger Jude Law. In the film, she plays Liz, the
middle-aged vixen version of Law’s philandering Alfie. As an actress,
Sarandon felt a duty to play the sexually-manipulative female without any
excuses. “I didn't want to be apologetic about her lifestyle and I think
she's pretty happy. Maybe she has her days on a New Year's Eve where she's
not quite together, but I don't think she apologizes. I didn't want her to
be tragic.” Sarandon pauses, momentarily -- she’s forming a philosophy. “I
think she's having what a lot of men in this country do. I think she was
exercising her prerogative which is available to a lot of men. If you can
live a life that way and you're happy, that's your choice. Right?”
And, what was it like hopping into the sack with Jude Law? “I was the last
one into the bed. So we were trying to figure out what ...
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