Susan Sarandon

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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. More on reddit.com

I've actually never seen her this young! She's gorgeous and I love that she has been very active speaking out for Palestinians 🍉 More on reddit.com

Interesting you left out Meryl Streep’s performance in The Bridges of Madison County. I’d argue that this is the performance that Streep should’ve won her third Oscar for. Had any other actress given this performance, they’d have swept the season and it’d be considered an all-timer win. More on reddit.com