‘It has never crossed my mind that my age would hold me back from anything. ‘When I hit 40, and when I became a mother, I never thought of myself as losing any of my sexuality or sensuality or curiosity and life force,’ she muses. None of her relatives were actors, but Susan accompanied her university sweetheart Chris Sarandon into the industry, and went on to marry him (pictured in 1975) 'Sometimes that’s better, something else happens.’Īnd it is probably this ability to surrender so wholly to the mysteries of life – and inherent in that, the ageing process – that accounts for her looking like a ‘young Susan Sarandon’. So, to go back to your original question’ – about how she juggles it all – ‘you can do it, but maybe not exactly the way you thought you would. 'At times, I’ve struggled to surrender to the brilliance of my life, which has a much better imagination than I could ever have. Nothing has ever been planned – even my career. ‘Every amazing thing that has happened in my life has come out of left field. Susan, who suffers from endometriosis, had been told she was unable to have children, so the arrival of three in what – certainly back then – were considered the twilight years of fertility seemed nothing short of a miracle. Susan won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Sister Helen Prejean in 1995's Dead Man Walking opposite Sean Penn You just do what you can and maybe the forms for school are not in on time or your refrigerator is not defrosted. 'I think we are all too hard on ourselves, though. ![]() ![]() And Eva has much better systems in place than I ever did. 'Marlowe is wonderful, smart, funny and rough-and-tumble. ‘It’s so much easier and less anxiety-inducing than being a mum, and you’re not on call 24/7. ‘I love being a grandmother,’ she continues. Susan is visibly proud that her daughter has inherited her fearlessness when it comes to getting to the nub of things.) (Eva received an outpouring of support for breaking a taboo when she revealed on her blog that she had suffered a miscarriage last August and discussed the pain she experienced. ‘I watch my daughter now and think, “How did I have three under seven and lug them around with me and work as much as I did?” I probably should have had more help when they were young,’ Susan reflects.Įva, an accomplished actress with her mother’s eyes, who has appeared in the TV series Californication and various films opposite Susan, now writes a blog (Happily Eva After) ‘about raising children and all the things people don’t talk about, such as miscarriages,’ says Susan. She never wed again, but has had several high-profile romances, including one with the late David Bowie, whom she described as ‘worth idolising’, and a long-term relationship with actor Tim Robbins, 12 years her junior, and the father of her sons, Jack, 27, and Miles, 24.Įva – whose father is Italian director Franco Amurri – has given her a much-adored granddaughter, Marlowe, who will turn two in August. Susan kept Sarandon as her stage name after they divorced in 1979. None of her relatives were actors, but she accompanied her university sweetheart Chris Sarandon – who has had a long career on Broadway and in TV and film (he appeared in The Princess Bride) – into the industry, and went on to marry him. Her father was a nightclub singer with English and Welsh roots her mother is of Italian ancestry, which may explain where her brio comes from. Susan was born in Queens, New York City, and raised in New Jersey, the eldest of nine children from a working-class Catholic family. It’s easier, of course, now that my kids are grown up.’ ‘I just do my best and forgive myself when I come up short. It was while in her 40s that she ‘took up cardio’ (and boxing) and landed the parts – in the feel-good baseball flick Bull Durham (pictured above) and timeless favourite Thelma & Louise – that made her a household name The message of the film (about two long-suffering women who escape their ghastly partners and end up going on the run) is that: ‘You get what you settle for,’ says Susan. I have admired Susan – who even in a towelling robe and slippers, her auburn hair in rollers ahead of a photo shoot, exudes authenticity – since seeing her in Thelma & Louise, perhaps the ultimate tale of female empowerment and independent spirit. (She replied, ‘Thank you’ – ‘I didn’t know what else to say!’) It is no surprise she was recently told by a man she met on a flight: ‘You look just like a young Susan Sarandon.’ Her last serious relationship (which lasted five years) was with a man more than 30 years her junior (Jonathan Bricklin, from whom she split last year, with whom she co-founded a chain of ping-pong bars called SPiN). It’s so unattractive and proves someone is not at one with what’s happening naturally,' says Susan ‘When I see people who have had massive work done, to me that isn’t beauty – it is the personification of fear.
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