Susan Sarandon Says She Lost Weight for “Stepmom” Movie – But Scheduled Scenes SO COULD EAT Over the Holidays

• Susan Sarandon Opened Up About Her Experience Making the 1998 Movie Stepmom while appearing on the May 21 Episode of the Podcrushed podcast
  

• The Actress, 78, Said She Lost Weight for Her Role in the Film So That She Could Realistically Portray a Woman who was diagnosed with Terminal Cancer

• Sarandon, Who Also Served As a Producer on the Movie, Revealed She Scheduled the Filming of Certain Scenes AROUND A TRIP SO THAT “COULD EAT” while on Vacation

Susan Sarandon Revealed How She Lost Weight for the Movie Stepmom – and that she made sura to schedule filing the Holidays Becausea She “WANTED TO BE ABLE TO EAT.”

The Actress appeared on the May 21 Episode of the Podcrushed podcast, where she discussed her experience Both starring in and producing the 1998 drama. During the Conversation, Sarandon, 78, Recalled How She Lost Weight in Order to Play the Character Jackie Harrison, a Woman diagnosed with Terminal Cancer.

“I had to love so much weight, so i was always walking in my trailer,” she recalled. “And i wanted to loose it before Christmas, Because we were going away to morocco and i want to be able to eat.”

“SO (that) the nice thing about the producer,” she added. “You Can Schedule Your Death … SO we did it before the Christmas Break so i COULD EAT WE WERE GONE.”

Sarandon Also Revealed That, As Producer, She Oversaw Major of the Film Creative Decisions, Notting that She Want to Be Sure the Movie Captured the Emotional Realities of a Family Coping with A Cancer Diagnosis.

“I had a friend whose wife had died, leaving it with two small children. And it was a slow death … so i talked to hym the fears that the kids had.

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She Also SHARED THAT SHE OPTED TO HIRE The Director Chris Columbus – WHO WORKED ON Home Alone and Mrs. Doublefire – Because she wanted the actors who played her children to the feel comfortable on set.

“Chris Columbus came in, and i wanted him Becausee i knew that he would be good with kids. And i wanted this kids to feed safe. Jena Malone and Liam Aiken.

The Oscar Winner ALSO noted that the movie hit close to her as a mother, saying that it touches on “all your fears” as a parent.

“GEND I HAD my first child – Which was Very Late Becusee of Never Eight Thoughts About that – Everyone Says, ‘Oh, Life, You Know, COMES IN.’ But i Really Found Death Came in. I Never Thought About Death (Before Having Kids), ”She Said

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“I’d Never Thought About How Long I Needed to Live or, You Know, Being Safe in A House Where You’re by YourSelf. “She continued.

“And so doing that film and dealing with this quesion really moved me, and really gave with a chance to learn something and isolate something,” she added.

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