Woman on a Mission

Actress Susan Sarandon talks travelling with kids, the importance of experiencing otherness, and a disappointing meal at the Vatican

By Coco Marett

In 1997, Susan Sarandon made sure she died before Christmas. “I was filming Stepmom. As a producer, I was able to schedule it so that I died before we took our Christmas break, so I could eat,” recalls Sarandon, who had to lose a significant amount of weight for her role as Jackie Harrison, a mother diagnosed with terminal cancer. That Christmas, the Academy Award-winning actress found herself riding camels in Morocco’s Sahara Desert with her three children. Her youngest, actor Miles Robbins, was five at the time. “One of your duties as a parent is to make memories,” she says, adding that she is a “compulsive scrapbook maker”. Beyond making memories, Sarandon felt it her parental duty to expose her children to different cultures and experiences from an early age, believing that travel…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2022

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