Susan Sarandon: Single Life 'Exhilarating & Terrifying'

By PopEater Staff Posted Apr 1st 2010 01:29PM

Susan Sarandon talks ping-pong, life after marriage

A few months after Susan Sarandon split with her partner of 23 years, Tim Robbins, Entertainment Weekly met with her over a game of ping-pong and talked it out.

"It's a long time to not be dating and to then be going back into it," Sarandon says. "I certainly love the idea of being in love, and I love the idea of companionship. Whatever happens next in terms of romance or partners, I don't know. But it's exhilarating and terrifying. I think the point is to just keep moving, and to just say yes to life."

The article says Sarandon, 63, gave a playful "no comment" when asked if she's currently involved with anyone. Reports have speculated a possible romance between the 'Thelma & Louise' star and Jonathan Bricklin (32 years her junior), one of the co-owners of Sarandon's New York ping pong club, SPiN.

Oh, and she "loves" being called a cougar.

More from EW's Sarandon story, including life after Tim, how all her new roles seem to feature her fading rather than fornicating, and, yes, ping-pong:

So wait, Susan Sarandon runs a ping-pong club? "That's kind of the charm of it -- the randomness. I mean, a ping-pong club? Who'd have thought it, right? It would be ironic if it ended up making money. The funniest thing is all the celebrity players who've come out of the woodwork: Jamie Foxx, George Clooney, the guys in Arcade Fire. It seems like every time I'm here, someone challenges me to a game."

On life after two decades in a relationship: "I did a movie a long time ago where I had to fly a glider. You get towed up in the air by a plane, and it's loud and annoying. And at some point you pull the cord and you're suddenly floating, and in your mind it makes absolutely no sense. But it's exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. That's where I am now."

On getting work without being a perky 20-year-old: "I'm happy to still be having fun and getting jobs, even if it seems like now all I'm getting are parts where I'm dying. Instead of being asked to do sex scenes, now I've always got some disease. But I'm hoping to change that."

She cries in almost every scene in her new film 'The Greatest,' where she and Pierce Brosnan play grieving parents: "Those scenes changed me chemically. When I sweated, I didn't smell like myself. My chemistry just became so acidy that I stunk. When I finished that movie, my skin actually hurt!"

Susan Sarandon has a whopping five films coming out this year, according to EW. See the trailer for 'Peacock' below:

Tags: ping-pong, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins

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Thursday 01 April

By DEELEE

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LIFE'S GREAT AT OUR AGE, 63.

By E

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Go Susan, good for you.

Friday 02 April

By mbrul

huh, she's only 63?

Saturday 03 April

By arfito

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Susan you give me hope and I am not 63 yet!

By Becky

I'm on Team Tim on this one. Her interview makes it sound like she ended a 20+ year relationthip because she wanted to feel the newness of falling in love again. That seems pretty shallow to me. I've always loved Susan Sarandon but this whole thing has left me respecting her a LOT less.

By valeskas

I am with you, because this young man who she co-owns the ping pong place with, will kick her sooner or later to the curb. Sometimes love is blind.

By Boston Blackie

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Funny, I never knew that she was not single. She certainly could not check married on an official form as shen ever was. How long before she has another shack up on the books?????????

By JOSIE

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SUSAN.....CONTACT ME SO THAT WE CAN STAR IN ONE OF YOUR MOVIES TOGETHER. I WILL BE 60 IN NOVEMBER AND I CAN SHARE SOME GREAT MOVIE IDEAS WITH YOU. E-MAIL ME.

By Jay

Really?

By MAGOOS

I suspect Ms Sarendon is have an old age crisis! She talks like a woman trying to convince herself of how great it is to go out on the "dating" circuit and fool with mere boys. I really thought she was worth more to herself.

By Joe Turner

Susan Sarandon is the supreme "cougar" of all times. She breathes sex and the thought of her "natural scent" is, itself, exhilirating.

Watch her as the mother in "Pretty Baby" or the movie "White Palace" with James Spader. I have seen her in an airport au natural and, although shorter than I thought, just a natural beauty that eminates from her and actually lights up if she smiles at you.

By john yodice

susan is nothing more than a hollywood pig, who would want that sloopy hole

what is this site aarp meeting susans tits must touch her knees when she is bent over , i agree she must be a pig

By Alana

She doesn't have to please anyone but herself in her choice of boyfriends. She has nothing to prove, and has been successful in life beyond most. I give her credit for courage to continue living after divorce.

By Jill

You go girl...I love Susan Sarandon.

By gdadl

Tim Robbins is lucky .. man this chick has hot the skids so bad !!!!!

By MaryLou Michelin

I turned 63 yesterday- hvew been single since 1980 and now I am ready to settle down, but not settle. Have fun Susan.

By ross

You dont hear her trashing Tim Robbins do you? why dont some of you grow up.. They drifted thats all. Some of you are married & drifted & cant afford to split. They can. Dont be jealous.
BTW what makes you think Tim Robbins held up so well cosmetically> Anyone seen him recently? She has sure held up better then he has-

By ttrexxx

"My skin hurt" please women get a life.Aren't you the same girl in the "rocky horror picture show" and now your a great actress..lol,lol,lol

By Donna

Rocky Horror was HOW many years ago? Everyone starts somewhere, and Rocky Horror was a great stepping off place. Good grief, I think it still plays! Anyway, Susan Sarandon has done about a million movies since, won and been nominated for Oscars, I think she's entitled to be believed when she talks about the effect a role had on her.

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