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does she have? -- what hasn't been done? It's always much more interesting the first time people touch each other. It's how that first touch comes to be that's hot. I just thought that because she's older and a lot like him...she sees him for what he truly is and accepts him for what he is. He doesn't have to charm her. That's what she offers him: acceptance. What they do is they really see each other. So, I said lets just make it about that connection.”

The significance of the film runs deeper than just the obvious for Sarandon. “One of the major challenges of being a human is deciding if you're ever going to be intimate with another human being. ‘Do you ever decide to be intimate?’ is much more the question, than ‘do you get married?’ ‘Do you have a house in the country?’” There’s no question left in anyone’s mind that Susan Sarandon is an intelligent woman, but who knew she had such insight into...well...everything? Ask her about anything and she philosophize endlessly. “[Alfie is] looking for that statue that’s flawless. He gets close up and for him they all have cracks. He gets to a certain point where it's broken and then he moves on. Well, the challenge is to get to that point and take it to the next level. That's where it starts to get interesting, not where you constantly get a younger, emptier version of the person you're with.”

Sarandon is someone who knows a thing or two about relationships. Her seventeen year relationship with actor Tim Robbins has certainly “gone the distance” (they have two sons). Now, after all that time, would she ever consider marrying her long-term beau? “Never say never,” she teases, mischievously. “I don't know. At the moment I don't need to. I'm always afraid we'll take each other for granted. Maybe at some point we'll want to change and make a statement that's different from the one that we've been living for 17 years...which in Hollywood years is about 45.” She laughs at her own joke, then with an air of seriousness: “We haven't talked about it in years.”

Now, at the age of fifty-eight, Susan Sarandon feels like something of a role-model for “women of a certain age.” “I'm doing the Revlon account. I think it's a record breaker,” she chirps, proud of her accomplishments. “[I’m doing it] because of the idea that women my age should be represented in a way that wasn't artificially changed that much.” Her work in print ads permits Sarandon to work with younger actresses who claim to idolize the Bull Durham actress. “I feel like Helen Hayes or something. It's so strange because I don't see myself that way. But I think if you just manage to survive you get points already toward some kind of icon status. Because it's a hard business to survive in and not be bitter or insane or addicted, or whatever. I think that I've ...

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