CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 18: Susan Sarandon attends the ‘Nelyobov (Loveless)’ screening during the 70th Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 18, 2017 in Cannes, France.
Susan Sarandon is looking for love — anywhere she can find it.
In a feature with The Times of London published over the weekend, Sarandon, 78, revealed that she’s open to people from all walks of life, genders, and ages.
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They could be “female or male” or “gender-fluid,” Sarandon said.
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The comments come as the once-revered actress and liberal activist saw her career dry up in the aftermath of comments she made last November at a pro-Palestinian rally following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Jews in the United States are “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America,” Sarandon told rally-goers.
Sarandon was dropped by her Hollywood reps, the United Talent Agency, and her projects were shelved. She later apologized for the comment, calling it a “terrible mistake.” But the damage was done.
In the interview promoting her new low-budget bowling movie, The Gutter – which started before her “cancellation” – Sarandon said she thought her politics would never harm her career. Now she thinks she may never act in a big-budget Hollywood movie again.
“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.”
Her politics haven’t changed, though.
“I think there’s a revolution happening among unions and among young people who are not born into a party,” she says. “I’m feeling that both parties are owned corporately. I think there’s a great difference culturally — in what they talk about — but not in policy, and so I’m supporting humanity.”
Sarandon — an ardent supporter of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 campaign and an outspoken critic of Hillary Clinton, whom she called “dangerous” — didn’t weigh in on Donald Trump’s election, but she’s never explicitly disavowed the former and future president.
“Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately if he gets in. Things will really explode,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes before Trump went on to win his first term.
The Thelma and Louise star described her current relationship status as “unattached”.
When asked about her ideal partner, Sarandon said she’s open to everyone.
“There are different people who are, you know, younger but have lived a very full life that are more mature, more interesting,” she explained.
“It has to be somebody who has curiosity, a sense of humor, intelligence, and appetite for life. So God bless you if you manage to find somebody who fulfills any of those things, whether they’re younger, whether they’re older, whether they’re female or male, whether they’re gender-fluid, whatever. Those are just details,” Sarandon said.
It’s important to find someone with “an open heart and open mind who’s still curious,” she added.
Sarandon teased the possibility of a same-sex coupling in 2022 when she announced on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, “I’m bi.”
The admission was partly in jest: She went on to explain she was “fluid” when it came to cats vs. dogs, although the Rocky Horror Picture Show actress did come out as sexually fluid in 2017.
In 2021, Sarandon elaborated on her options on the Uncut & Uncensored podcast, saying of a potential love interest, “They could be a school teacher, or they could be a writer, or they could be successful or not successful… somebody who owns themselves and isn’t gonna be intimated by people coming up to [me] on the street and saying, ‘Oh my God, I love you.’”
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