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It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was
a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who
had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in
Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon,
who had studied to be an actor, was passed over. His wife Susan got a major
role.
That role was as Susan Compton, the daughter of ad executive
Bill Compton (_Dennie Patrick_ ). In the movie Dad Bill kills Susan's drug dealer
boyfriend and next befriends Joe(_Peter Boyle_ )-- a bigot who works on an assembly
line and who collects guns.
Five years later, Sarandon made the film where fans of cult
classics have come to know her as Janet, who gets entangled with transvestite
Dr. Frank n Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). More than 15 years
after beginning her career Sarandon at last actively campaigned for a great
role -- Annie in Bull Durham (1988), flying at her own expense from Rome to
Los Angeles. "It was such a wonderful script ... and did away with a lot
of myths and challenged the American definition of success", she said.
"When I got there, I spent some time with Kevin Costner, kissed some ass
at the studio and got back on a plane". Her romance with the Bull Durham
(1988) supporting actor, Tim Robbins, had produced two sons by 1992 and put
Sarandon in the position of leaving her domestic paradise only to accept roles
that really challenged her. The result was four Academy Award nominations in
the 1990s and best actress for Dead Man Walking (1995). Her first Academy Award
nomination was for Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980).
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