Academy Award-winning actor Susan Sarandon — whose LGBTQ rights activism and look in quite a lot of queer-coded movies has earned her droves of LGBTQ followers — appeared to casually reveal she’s bisexual in a latest interview on “The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon.”
In an episode that aired Wednesday, just some days earlier than the actor’s new present, “Monarch,” premiered on Fox, Sarandon and Fallon had been having a dialog about her new cat, which she mentioned she obtained after her canine died. She instructed Fallon she couldn’t carry herself to get any extra canine, so one in every of her sons instructed her to get a cat.
“I’m bi, so…” she instructed Fallon, side-eyeing the viewers and prompting laughs from the host.
“You imply you want canine and cats,” Fallon interjected, to which Sarandon replied, “I’m fluid. I’m very fluid, the place animals are involved.”
The remark, which was a part of a joke, set social media abuzz in regards to the 75-year-old film star’s sexual orientation, which has lengthy been considerably ambiguous.
In 2017, she instructed Michigan-based LGBTQ information outlet Pleasure Supply that her sexual orientation is “open.”
“My sexual orientation is up for grabs, I suppose you would say,” she mentioned on the time.
In that interview, she mentioned the vast majority of her associates have all the time been homosexual women and men. Explaining why she hasn’t had a “massive courting profession,” apart from some long-lasting relationships with males, she described herself as a “serial monogamist.”
Then, final 12 months, when requested throughout a podcast interview about her courting pursuits, Sarandon mentioned she doesn’t care in regards to the gender of her potential suitors, simply that they have to be vaccinated towards the coronavirus.
“I don’t care if it’s a person or a girl. I imply, I’m open to all age, all colour,” she instructed “Divorced Not Lifeless” host Caroline Stanbury. “For me, these issues are simply particulars.”
No matter her sexuality, Sarandon has lengthy been thought-about a homosexual icon as a consequence of a number of of her queer-coded — and simply plain queer — roles.
Certainly one of her earliest movies was the 1975 cult musical basic “Rocky Horror Image Present,” which has been described as a milestone in queer cinema.
Sarandon then starred within the 1983 cult horror basic “The Starvation” reverse David Bowie and French film star Catherine Deneuve. The movie options an iconic lesbian intercourse scene between Sarandon and Deneuve.
In 1991, Sarandon starred in her arguably most well-known, if not queerest, movie, “Thelma & Louise.” In 2016, for the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary, the actor sat down with Harper’s Bazaar journal alongside co-star Geena Davis to debate the film’s legacy. Sarandon was requested the place she thought their characters would have ended up in the event that they hadn’t famously pushed off a cliff within the ending scene.
“Possibly Louise turned a lesbian,” Sarandon mentioned of her character. “That may be fabulous.”
Sarandon’s agent didn’t instantly reply to NBC Information’ request for remark.
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