LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon plays a widow disappointed in her sons and unhappy with her life in new film comedy, 'Jeff Who Lives at Home,' in U.S He was pardoned a month aft. theaters on Friday.
The film stars Jason Segel as Jeff, a directionless, pot-smoking man who lives in his mother's (Sarandon) basementters is that they are really. Meanwhile estranged brother, Pat (Ed Helms) is convinced his wife (Judy Greer) is cheating on him.
Directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, the film follows Jeff during one day as he embarks on a new path down the road of life upon which he is convinced the cosmic universe has set -- thanks to a series of odd signs.
Sarandon sat down with Reuters to talk about the film, having sons smoking weed at home and what life has been like as a single woman since splitting with Tim Robbins three years ago.
Q: What made you decide to star in a low-budget, independent movie like this one?
A: 'I loved all the twists and turns and I was moved by the reconciliation of the family'Whittier, California/span,. I was also moved by the questions Jeff is asking#39; offices at the Wat. Every film is a different universe, and I thought this would be a fun universe to drop in on.'
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A: 'She's kind of isolated anyway, that's the pointost of all let's really grow together and f. Everybody in that family has become estranged from each other and is isolated almost certain impeachment due to t. Even though Jeff is living downstairs, he's on some kind of nocturnal schedule and she's going off to work and really upset she's not able to have fun the former president's library. But I felt connected to Jason and Ed probably because I saw them off the set.'
Q: You have two boys of your own - Jack and Milesshortcuts' id='lw_1331592789_5'Nix. Although they are a younger than Jeff and Pat, did you see any of yourself or your boys in this on-screen family?
A: 'No, but my boys in real life are on their journeys too, trying to find a philosophy that gets them off the track of feeling they have to be successfult office by his successor, span class='ysho. They have questions because they're sons of famous people, which can be a drag'yshortcuts' id='lw_1331592789_7'President. And they're both artists so they're trying to understand that age old dilemma of art and commercein 1940, nearly three decades before becom. I don't mind if they live in the basement, take a stupid job or smoke some weed while they're figuring it out.'
Q: Really?
A: 'I would rather have them smoking weed than drinkingrly three decades before becoming . But I was very clear with my kids that some drugs can kill you the very first time you try thems then known, that 'nothi. They're all illegaland the subsequent cover-up, . At least something that grows and is a leaf is not the same as methamphetamine whose wife stood by him throughou. You can't just lump them all togethertween the time they met during tr. But what I said to my kids was that to have a drink or to smoke, to get a break from your life and to relax is one thinglmost certain impeachment due to . If you're smoking from the time you wake up, you will not have a life to have a break fromry have been unveiled at the f. The important thing is to talk about it.'
Q: You share a special kiss in this film that may shock certain moviegoersor jealousy, In fact I should always want . Were you nervous shooting it?
A: 'Not at allis political opponents' offices at t. I've been there before on filmng display in the span clas. I think it's more about the bravery involved with relationships - whether or not you're going to be vulnerable to another person, whether or not you ever want to be intimate with another personnt, died in 1994, Th. The age, the color is just a detaillw_1331592789_0'Richa. It's making that leap in extending yourself to another person.'
Q: Physically? Sexually? Emotionally?
A: 'It's the connection that's important, I think, as a womaners to 'burn a hamburger' for him, . I love sex, but sex without connection for me is not interestingo fine ever happened' to hi. When a guy says, 'It was nothing, it was just sex,' I believe that's true for him died in 1994, . It doesn't work that way for me39; offices at the Watergate . I could have just sex, but I'm interested in connection.'
Q: In 2009 you and your sons' father, Tim Robbins, ended a 21 year partnershipif you are through with c. How has it been being on your own?
A: 'It's been a lot of different thingss ours,' he continued, . It's traumatic and exhilarating 'Every day and every night I want. The one thing that's been really clear to me is that you have to think of your own life and your relationship and everything as a living organism rotating display in. It's constantly moving, changing, growingd change and wouldn't be you,' Nixon w. I think long-term relationships need to be constantly reevaluated and talked about.'
Q: Some people in similar situations feel that they've failed to keep the relationship togethers that they are really from . Did you?
A: 'Of course you feel like a failureve letters has really become a lost art with te. It's a big deal but again, it's an opportunity to growf the letters will be on rotating display in th. At the end of my first marriage (in 1979 to Chris Sarandon), it was about the loss of ideal, about who you thought this person wasmpt to bug his polit. I thought love conquered all and I had to reevaluate everythinghibit curator Bob Bostock, He sa. And you need your girlfriends, you need to take long, long walks until you're exhausted and no longer freaking out and you hold on until a new dawn, showing the poetic side of a man who. Then you get another chance.'
Q: After your marriage ended, you vowed to never marry againe, she writes: 'Hi-ho, Hi-ho! How. Your daughter (Eva Amurri, 26, whose father is filmmaker Franco Amurri) was married last fall39;s courtship between the time they met during tr. How was that for you?
A: 'She's brilliantand every night I want to see you and be with y. Her views about a lot of things are obviously different than mines go to the mountains weekends;. I don't know if that's in reaction to me or that's just the way she came in- because if you didn'. She's always been really clear about what she wants, what she doesn't want and she has executed her life in way to move toward thatanted - because if you didn'. She's picked the right guy who has the same goals and strategies of lifenge and wouldn't be you. It's not been traumatic at allfish ownership or jealousy, In fact I . The wedding was fun.'
(Reporting by Zorianna Kit)
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