Susan Sarandon on Tim Robbins Split: 'I Didn't Think It Would Ever Happen'

By Zach Dionne Posted Oct 4th 2010 01:24PM

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Susan Sarandon has had an interesting ride since her 2009 split from Tim Robbins after 23 years together -- she's gotten into business running a New York City ping-pong club, taken roles in tons of films, and dodged and weaved through myriad reports of a relationship with a man three decades her junior. In an in-depth profile with the UK's Telegraph, she covers it all with style and grace.

"People were coming up to me in the street and saying, 'I cried and cried when I heard,' " Sarandon, 64, says of her split with Robbins, 51. "Well, I was sadder! I didn't think it would ever happen, either."

Her reasoning behind the split? Things had simply run their course. "You bring people into your life at certain times. Maybe you have a relationship to have children and you realize that it's fulfilled after that point."

Sarandon and Robbins, who have two children together, never married. "I've always liked the idea of choosing to be with somebody. I thought that if you didn't get married you wouldn't take each other for granted as easily. I don't know if after 20-something years that was still true."

Now she's often asked about a new man -- her business partner at SPiN ping-pong club, 31-year-old Jonathan Bricklin. "You have to have a sense of humor. There are lots of people in my life at the moment," she says, going on to expound but not necessarily clarify: "What I've realized in my old age is that your relationship with people or with your job has to be a growing organism. It's not something where you reach a certain point and then you start preserving it. You have to nurture it, you have to stay curious and hungry and foolish. Once you stop doing that you get satisfied and you get stuck."

The star, currently appearing in 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,' admits her life has taken some unexpected turns. "If you'd told me a year ago I would own a ping-pong club I would have laughed until I fell on the ground. It just kind of happened -- the people who asked me were so enthusiastic about the idea that it was infectious. I think it is a riot that everybody takes the game so seriously."

Commended by the Telegraph for being "an unpredictable and entertaining interviewee," Sarandon weighs in fantastically on a range of other subjects:

On cosmetic work: "I'm afraid of Botox. As an actress, you have to use your face. But I do think a woman has a right to do whatever she wants with her body."

Of acting onstage versus on film: "It's like the difference between masturbation and making love. When you're in movies you are almost by yourself, whereas on stage you have a relationship with the audience."

Is her current health kick keeping her away from recreational drugs? "I wouldn't go that far. And I do like tequila."

Of her first and only husband, Chris Sarandon, whom she married at age 20: "He was the first person I ever had sex with and my best friend. I married so young but took it very seriously; I never had that kind of free-love 1960s. I was slow to lose my virginity. In fact, throughout my life I've been with so few people; I'm one of those serial monogamists. I was never that wild, although I was a bit of a hippie chick. I think I probably still am a hippie chick."

On her new tattoo, reading 'andand,' meaning 'A New Dawn, A New Day': "It's supposed to remind me that if there are disappointments or mistakes, the next day I can just start again. One of my strongest attributes is being able to change direction when I'm given the gift of something I didn't anticipate."

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Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri arrive for the 15th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards Official After Party at Katsuya on January 15, 2010 in West Hollywood, California. 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards Official After Party - Arrivals Katsuya Hollywood, CA United States January 15, 2010 Photo by Craig Barritt/WireImage.com To license this image (59294923), contact WireImage.com

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Monday 04 October

By mcboo

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It's spelled America, NOT amerika. wow.

By Shep Muncie

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she has never been one of my favorites

By dugandob

So why reply at all to this article? I'm so interested that Susan Sarandon has never been one of your favorites.
GAG

By Jane

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I am sorry for you.

By slm

I'd bet Sarandon is all upset about that! NOT!

By Dayna

Shep Muncie - well, thank God YOU weighed in! Gee, now we can all exhale. What an idiot.

By nancy

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Me either. a waste of screen time and effort. Why worry if she broke up with the guy? He's probably dancing right now since she has a boyfriend and is so broken up over 23 years.

By Marie

This is actually to the reply from Koniniajkjhl - besides having a weird screen name of just picking random letters - what's with the random , anywhere you want apostrophes?

By Bill

Shep you have the right to voice your opinion even if it no one likes it. BTW I like Sarandon, and she's still hot. That's my opinion.

By Mary

She has always been one of my favorites.

By marcia

I agree, thought her early work was okay....can't stand her politics!

By Okakopa

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It is amazing how many posting here think that they are the only ones that should be allowed to voice an opinion. To Shep Muncie, I know what you mean and I do agree with you. I also stand by our right to post that and to read the article. My initial thought is...does Tim agree with her 50 cent opinion? I think that a debate, a public debate, on the subject by the two of them would be interesting and a lot of entertainment for the public. Then we could vote to find out which is the winner and telling the truth.........

By hussnfussel

SHE IS NOT A FAVORITE OF MINE EITHER, But she IS A WONDERFUL ACTRESS AND SHE IS BEAUTIFUL. She has Betty Davis eyes. Don't you think.

By Bret

Thank you for chiming in D-BAG.

By myantiquesplace

NOT!

By ireneleeg

I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet that you probably would have preferred an interview with someone like Kim Kardashian. A self absorbed one-dimensional twit who brings new meaning to the term shallow.

By susie

These hollywood people are nuts. They have no problem moving on when they are bored.. The thing with them is they have enough money to get bored. Instead of stepping back and realizing that every realationship ebbs and flows. And if there is no abuse involved then maybe you need to work on it.

By angelo

Well Susie, they did remain together for 23 years. That's a pretty good chunk of time, I'd guess they made it through two or three ebbs and flows, no? Susie you really ought to try empathy every once and awhile, you'll live longer.

By Merrily

susie, how is that different than any other married in the world?

By sit on it

Susie, although they have never been married, I'm sure they were living their lives a very happy couple. Remember this, Susie? A very happy marriage does not means that every days are happy days during their marriage.

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