Somebody must make a film.
Susan Sarandon has revealed that her brother attached with certainly one of her bridesmaids throughout her quirky 1967 wedding ceremony to ex-husband Chris Sarandon.
The Oscar-winning actress, 76, and the “Princess Bride” actor, 81, took a hilarious stroll down reminiscence lane throughout a dwell episode of Chris’ podcast, Cooking by Coronary heart, the place the one-time couple mentioned their marriage and relationship collectively.
In the course of the hour-long present, Sarandon recounted the home hijinks that came about at their wedding ceremony — her mother, Lenora Criscione Tomalin, was pregnant, and her brother, Phillip Tomalin Jr., was the one sibling who might make it.
“None of my siblings might come besides my brother that was proper below me, who insisted upon coming… he insisted upon coming and fortuitously attached with one of many bridesmaids, so it was a really profitable journey,” Sarandon joked.
The “Thelma & Louise” thespian additionally admitted that her mother didn’t precisely approve of her wedding ceremony, allegedly telling the 20-year-old on the time that she “can’t get married” — which Sarandon correlated to her mom being self-conscious over her present state.
“I believe she was embarrassed, she was 44, and she or he didn’t say that, she simply mentioned, ‘Oh now you’ll be able to’t get married,’” Sarandon recalled.
The “Stepmom” starrer mentioned that her mom, who was “mainly pregnant on a regular basis,” sat “behind the church for, like, 10 minutes,” in a black raincoat.
Her father, TV producer Philip Leslie Tomalin, additionally attended the bash, held at a Washington, D.C. theater, which Chris mentioned was a “potluck wedding ceremony” — each visitor bringing their very own gadgets, resembling liquor.
The Submit reached out to Sarandon’s reps for remark.
The couple had been divorced in 1979, and shared no kids collectively.
Nonetheless, although their marriage might have ended quite early, the pair nonetheless clearly share heat emotions for one another.
“Chris..mainly saved my life along with his kindness,” an emotional Sarandon mentioned at one level. “You may think about I wasn’t too steady popping out of [my home] atmosphere. And he was extremely affected person.”
“Actually, I credit score you with my basis and my survival,” she mentioned to the still-dashing octogenarian.
The podcast host additionally informed Folks how a lot he appreciated his ex-wife.
“We each have very sturdy emotions for that a part of our lives and the way these formative relationships are all the time necessary, and you may’t depart them behind completely,” he mentioned.
“You need to revisit them generally — if not in nostalgia, extra within the sense of, yeah, there was love there, and it nonetheless exists on a unique stage,” he continued. “It’s not romantic love, however nonetheless there’s love there.”
He additionally praised the star for being an “extraordinary human being.”
After Sarandon’s marriage to Chris, she has a longterm relationship with Tim Robbins, who she dated for 23 years after assembly in 1988.
They share two kids collectively, director Jack Henry Robbins, 34, and musician and actor Miles Robbins, 31.
She is also a mother mother to actress Eva Amurri, 38, whom she shares with Italian director Franco Amurri.