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Susan Sarandon: ‘I was dropped by my agent, my projects were pulled’

The actress, 78, thought her politics would never harm her career. Now she tells Will Pavia she may never act in a big-budget Hollywood movie again

Another actress, Melissa Barrera, was dropped from the cast of Scream 7 for sharing posts on social media that accused Israel of genocide, while a prominent agent at Creative Artists Agency was demoted but kept her job, according to Variety, after her client, Tom Cruise, indicated that she had his support. There is still a cohort of liberals who have not forgiven her for declining to back Hillary Clinton in 2016 and for supporting Jill Stein, the Green party candidate, who would then be blamed for chiselling away enough voters from the Democrats in three swing states to help Donald Trump over the line. ‘You wanna hear a story about Brando?” asks Susan Sarandon, her bouncy auburn hair sprayed out across her shoulders; those potent eyes of hers looking at me over Zoom from behind a pair of thick, grey-blue-framed glasses.

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