Welcome to Admiring Susan Sarandon, a fansite dedicated to Academy Award winning actress and activist Susan Sarandon. Susan is best known for her roles in 'Thelma and Louise', 'Dead Man Walking', and the upcoming 'The Lovely Bones'. Admiring Susan currently provides fans with the latest news on Susan's career and activism, and, with a bit of work, will one day develop into a full archive in tribute to Susan's extensive career.
Susan interviewed her Wall Street 2 and The Greatest co-star Carey Mulligan for the April issue of Interview magazine. Read an excerpt of the interview below:
Carey Mulligan By Susan Sarandon
Since her star-making performance in director Lone Scherfig’s An Education last fall, Carey Mulligan’s meteoric rise has itself become a cinematic affair—a quick-cutting whirlwind of awards shows, paparazzi, short hair, and self-effacing British charm. The 24-year-old Mulligan’s portrayal of a precocious but naïve schoolgirl whose hunger for experience leads her to become romantically involved with an older man (played brilliantly by Peter Sarsgaard) earned her an Oscar nomination. But Mulligan’s impressive work in An Education isn’t the only reason why many are finding great solace in her emergence as one of the most important young actresses working today. It’s what her success represents: the triumph of talent, acelebration of difference, and a small victory for a young woman who sounds believable when she says she’s in it for the roles and not the acclaim. “Carey stood out immediately,” Scherfig says. “Not because she reminded me of anyone—more perhaps because she didn’t.” “She has this great indefinable quality,” says Jim Sheridan, who directed Mulligan in his most recent film, Brothers. “Yet you feel like you immediately know who she is.” “In the British tradition, she holds a lot more in than an American actress,” offers Oliver Stone, who cast Mulligan as Winnie Gekko, the estranged daughter of Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, due out in September. “There’s a British reticence to Carey, a kind of apartness that, in my mind, characterizes Winnie Gekko, who has been alienated by life, family, the betrayal of her father, the death of her older brother, and the madness of her mother,” says Stone. “She wasn’t supposed to be typically American in her reactions to her environment. To the contrary—she was supposed to be rather terrified at the prospect of family.”
Susan Sarandon: sexy, single and 63 Playing a glamorous granny may not top the wish-list of every leading lady. But Susan Sarandon, newly single at 63, is unfazed by getting older. On the eve of her new film, The Lovely Bones, she tells Chrissy Iley why marriage was not for her, why she’s getting into tattoos and how laughter keeps her skin perfect
Chrissy Iley The Observer, Sunday 17 January 2010 Article historyThe first thing you notice about Susan Sarandon is how comfortable she feels in her own body. She often talks about how proud she is of her breasts, but it’s more than that. There is something about how connected she is to herself that makes her charismatic. She is instantly accessible, perching on a little sofa in Claridge’s hotel, wondering why the green tea is brown. She is wearing black jeggings, New Balance trainers, an oversized sweater with a cream lace shirt underneath. A curious outfit, yet somehow you notice her – not its oddness.
Her skin is flawless, her eyes huge and all-consuming. She is not afraid to look at you and she’s not afraid to let you look right in at her. It’s an open face. No slyness, no manipulation. She is renowned for being a woman who doesn’t fear most things and certainly doesn’t fear speaking her mind.
It is that truth-telling that later on in the interview makes us come a little undone. But more of that later.
Perhaps the biggest misconception about Susan Sarandon is that she is deadly serious.
Granted, the 63-year-old actress can be very serious on screen when, for example, she is playing a nun in Dead Man Walking (1995) or the mother of a dead soldier in In the Valley of Elah (2007). And it’s no laughing matter when she goes on a political crusade for women’s reproductive rights.
But while her current film, Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, is deadly serious drama – it’s about a child’s rape and murder at the hands of a serial killer – Sarandon plays the comic relief.
“Susan is very funny,” Jackson says. “And she needed to be funny as Grandma Lynn, who is a constant reminder that, in the face of tragedy, you’ve got to get on with life, and also that life is full of humour.”
In The Lovely Bones Grandma Lynn comes into a house full of misery and uses her considerable personality to force the family to move beyond the tragedy.
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The Lovely Bones (2009) 
The Greatest (2010) 
Peacock (2010) 
Solitary Man (2010) 
Leaves of Grass (2009) 
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