- Okay, we're here with the iconic Susan Sarandon.
You've been in so many iconic movies.
Would it be possible to get a fun fact, a detail,
a morsel, a behind the scenes look?
Yes? - I'm ready.
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- [Drew] This is "Behind the Scenes".
- Shoot.
- "Witches of Eastwick".
- [Susan] I was actually cast in Cher's part,
and when I showed up, they had given my part to Cher.
I then didn't have any wardrobe.
She gave me the gold dress and the red wig.
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- "Bull Durham".
- [Susan] "Bull Durham", the studio, again, did not want me.
I auditioned. I was living in Italy.
I had a one and a half year old child.
I flew myself in, again swallowing my ego,
read the entire script with Kevin, got on a plane,
went back to this deserted place in Italy,
and then like three days later,
they knocked on my door,
'cause I didn't have a phone, and they said,
"You have to go back because you got the movie."
(Drew gasps)
- And then you met your husband.
- I did. We never got married.
But yes, we had many children and real estate together.
(audience laughs)
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- Smart on every level.
"The Hunger".
- [Susan] "The Hunger".
What is a tidbit that we didn't know about on "The Hunger"?
- Anything about David Bowie?
- Well, the really good stuff you can't talk about.
Not now. He was great.
Catherine was great, and whenever I had big parties,
she was the first one that came back the next morning
to help me clean up.
- Oh, wow.
- Catherine Deneuve, folks.
- Oh my god.
The one and only Catherine Deneuve,
helps you clean up after parties.
- I know. - Thank you. I'm satisfied.
Okay.
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- Because I didn't have children at that time
so I did have parties.
- Oh I know.
I used to have the best parties in the world.
- Remember who we were?
- I know. We'll get, I'll get back there.
- [Susan] Thelma and Louise
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- Did you know when you were making it?
- No.
- No, 'cause I don't know if you remember,
but when it came out a lot of people were very offended
by Thelma and Louise.
- How so?
- It condones suicide.
It encourages women to be violent.
All the things that happen in every other movie
with a male lead that nobody even looked twice at,
suddenly, we were doing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
and everybody was getting, they just were disturbed
by women taking their own power
and they had to find a reason.
And really it's about friendship and it's about,
it's kind of romantic, I think.
- It's a love story.
- It's a love story. Absolutely.
- I was so in awe.
Also, I love, love stories of the platonic nature
because sometimes like the sex of it, convolutes like,
I loved Paper Moon and Midnight Run
and Planes, Trains and Automobiles
and all these movies that were not the romantic love.
It just let me focus deeper on love itself.
- Because it's the bravest thing you can do
is to be open to another person. Right?
(audience applauds)
- That's, yeah okay.
(both chuckle)
(audience applauds)
It's so true.
But that movie also touches on why it's so hard to trust.
You know, some of the men are very black
and white for what they do wrong and what they don't.
And then you have Brad Pitt, who's so hot and shirtless
and who wouldn't go for it, but then he rips her off
and you're like, I didn't see that one coming!
- He was so good.
When I saw the scenes where he taunts the husband
and everything, that's when I thought,
this guy's really special.
- I like your wife.
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Your Academy Award, Dead Man Walking.
- [Susan] Dead Man Walking,
I had read the book and I met with Sister Helen.
I was doing The Client at the time
and she didn't know which one,
she knew I was in Thelma and Louise,
she didn't know which one I was.
And she gave me the book and the rights to it on a handshake
during a fabulous crawfish dinner on the basis also,
of Amnesty International vouching for me because of my,
some of my political work.
So right there we had this transaction.
Tim didn't move on it for like a year,
and I finally had a meltdown in the middle of Seventh Avenue
and said, "If you're not gonna do this,
then I'm gonna take it to somebody else."
And then he said, "All right, all right, I'll try."
And he wrote a brilliant script.
- And made a brilliant movie.
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- Okay. If you could remake any one
of those movies I mentioned, tomorrow,
which one would it be?
- Bull Durham I think would be the most fun.
- Well, 'cause you have two hot men.
- Two hot men
- Chasing you
(Drew laughs)
(audience applauds)
Good choice.
Thank you Susan Sarandon.
I told you it wasn't gonna be too late.
I love you!
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