Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, who’s been vocal in the past about everything from Syrian migrants to director Woody Allen’s alleged sexual abuse of minors, went off in an unexpected direction while being interviewed at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I have threatened, in my 80s, to direct porn,” the 69-year-old actress said. “I haven’t watched enough to know what the problems are. Most pornography is brutal and doesn’t look pleasurable from a female point of view. So I’ve been saying that when I no longer want to act, I want to do that.”
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Sarandon is in Cannes for the 25th anniversary of Thelma & Louise along with her 1991 co-star Geena Davis.
The opinionated actress has acted in her share of sex scenes over the years, her first in the 1983 vampire movie The Hunger. She appeared in the scene with co-star Catherine Deneuve.
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“It was Tony Scott’s first film and I intervened in the script,” she said. “First of all, it was written that I was drunk and I said, ‘Seriously? You have to be drunk to get into bed with Catherine Deneuve? I don’t think so. Isn’t it more interesting if it’s voluntary?'”
“What makes a sex act really interesting is how that first touch happens, how that first kiss comes,” she added.
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