Susan Sarandon: ‘I was dropped by my agent, my projects were pulled’

https://www.thetimes.com/article/44bbf1e2-bb9b-41b0-9551-455b7450ebc6

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  1. > Lately though, Sarandon feels she has been blacklisted in Tinseltown following remarks she made at a pro-Palestinian rally last November. Standing on the back of a lorry at the protest in New York City, and apparently speaking off the cuff, she said a lot of people were “afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence”.

    > She quickly apologised, saying that she had intended to express concern over antisemitic attacks and made “a terrible mistake” in the way she phrased it, by implying that “until recently Jews have been strangers to persecution when the opposite is true”.

    > The fallout was immediate. “I was dropped by my agency, my projects were pulled,” she says. “I’ve been used as an example of what not to do if you want to continue to work.”

  2. This has been a number of years coming, right? I seem to recall she’s been outspoken on a number of topics which is her right, but nonetheless gives a person pause.

  4. Are we sure it wasn’t her performance in Blue Beetle that did it?

  5. She is always complaining about this or the other.

    Face it, she has outlived her brand of value to Hollywood.

  6. Keep your mouth shut, there are consequences for being loud about your political. I don’t give a shit what some entitled actress thinks.

  8. My favourite part of that article – although much of it was insightful was the anecdote she shares about Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson; it reads thus:

    > You wanna hear a story about Brando?” asks Susan Sarandon, her bouncy auburn hair sprayed out across her shoulders; those potent eyes of hers looking at me over Zoom from behind a pair of thick, grey-blue-framed glasses. It’s a gorgeous day in New York City’s West Village, sunshine warms the wall behind her and a tabby cat named Ida sprawls at her side.
    Who wouldn’t want to hear a story from her about Marlon Brando? She shrugs her grey cardigan off her shoulders and gives me a look that says: hold on to your hat.

    >Jack Nicholson lives, she says, in a little house on Mulholland Drive, crammed with priceless works of art. “You would just see these extraordinary paintings worth millions, just hanging on the wall next to each other,” she says.
    For years, Brando lived next door. The two houses shared a gate, their gardens merged. At any moment Brando could wander like a deer into Nicholson’s yard.

    >“Sometimes Brando would walk right in to Jack’s house and take things out of his refrigerator,” Sarandon says. “Jack put a lock on it. They had this big thing. But Jack had always said: ‘If you’re ever going to sell your house please let me know.’ So Brando calls one day and says: ‘All right. I’m gonna sell my house but this is the thing. You have to have $15 million in a bag at the end of my driveway in three days.’”

    >It may not have been $15 million, she says later. But it was a sum in the millions, and it was a Friday afternoon. “Jack says, ‘But you know the banks are gonna be closed. How am I gonna have it there by Sunday night?’”

    > Nicholson began working the phone, she says, calling businessmen he knew, organising wire transfers. “He goes crazy and he starts finding money,” she says. “He goes through all the machinations.”

    >By Sunday, he had several million dollars in cash in a bag. “He calls Brando back. He says, ‘OK, I got it, I got it. I’m going to put it at the bottom of your driveway.’ And Brando says, ‘Hey Jack. What is today?’”
    “April 1,” Sarandon says. “Those are the kind of jokes these guys play on each other.”

    A wonderful way to open a consistently excellent interview.

  10. Oh darn. I thought it was for how she helped Trump get elected in 2016.

  11. It’s not complicated. She had the guts to stand up against genocide and was blacklisted for it.

  12. Lost all respect for her when she threw Ukraine under the bus in favour of “peace”. She and Roger Waters are cut from the same cloth.

  15. We make these Hollywood stars by worshipping them. They make lots of money and are adored by millions.
    But they forget that their influence can rub the wrong way when they step out of the lane they operate in.
    Most people don’t want to hear their opinions. We want to see them in the make-believe world of movies and TV. When they speak out, it ruins the fantasy.
    I am not saying they are not entitled to an opinion. I just don’t think they should get a big soap box because they are famous. Always liked Susan, she is a great actress and a beautiful woman. She probably didn’t need to take a public side on that issue.

  16. Screw her, couldn’t stand her after her and her Bernie bros gave us Trump the first time then their little “can’t vote for Dems, if we hold our vote like petulant children that’ll teach them to listen to us more” BS gave us Trump AGAIN!

  17. “Oh noooo, the consequences of my own actions!”

  18. FAFO

    You wanted the attention susan, you now have the attention.

  19. Always nice to see a Hollywood Jew hater cry to the press when their career collapses. Good riddance.

  20. Isnt she like 80yo? Why not retire and enjoy the little bit of life she has left!

  22. “Oh no! The consequences of my actions! Woe is me.”

  23. So she finally learned that actions have consequences.

  24. I love her for a bunch of reasons, but I have no issue with what happened. She is allowed to say and feel how ever she wants, but she’s not entitled to have people want to work with her.

  26. I’ve worked with her twice, she is truly down to earth and generous in person. I don’t agree with what she said but I hope she can find work again. Truly a talented lady and kindhearted individual.

  27. Well now Susan has more time on her hands to fly out to Gaza and feed the poor and homeless…..and maybe create a peace deal.

  28. Not sure why she thought she would be the only person in America who can’t lose her job over politics.

  29. Cuz she’s crazy.

    I remember when she bought into the never Hillary trend during the 2016 election. She and this random woman held each other crying to the camera that Hillary was going to destroy America. Insane.

  31. Does her daughter still act? I thought she was primarily a lifestyle blogger.

  33. Imagine if you swam in a pool full of shit. You exit the pool of shit, then you go hang out with other people, and they complain that you smell like shit. Instead of going “oh, my bad, I’ll just go home and shower, I didn’t mean to offend anyone” you just accuse everyone of *targeting* you. No, you don’t smell like shit – everyone is simply imagining the smell of shit emanating from your direction.

    That’s what a person sounds like, when they talk antisemitic trash, and then complain about people’s response to it, saying “oh, I’m just being misunderstood.” No you’re not, Susan. You’re experiencing the social consequences of saying stupid things, and espousing hateful shit, and parading yourself around like you’re above everyone else for doing so. What, you think everyone just simultaneously decided to target you, and call you antisemitic, because people thought it would be a fun thing to do? No, these are called consequences.

    And it serves her right. Maybe her agent didn’t want to swim in a pool of shit with her. Maybe other people in Hollywood don’t want to dive into the shit pool, the shit-cuzzi, the shit sauna.

  34. I loved it when Nathan Fielder had Susan Sarandon with him during a Conan interview.

  35. She was dating that guy Jonathan Bricklin who co-owned the ping pong nightclub in nyc on 23rd street years and years ago. He was in one of my groups of friends at the time and SS followed me on instagram simply because we knew each other. I found that psychotic.

  36. One of the biggest backers of Russian lobbyist Jill Stein during the 2016 election.

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