She swings her arms over her head and moves with the groove, comfortable dancing alone in the crowd.
It’s not just the music that’s got Sarandon juiced.
“It’s the simple things,” she says.
The rest is just details.'
“Ping-Pong cuts across every demographic, age and body bang out,” Sarandon says.
“Girls can beat their fathers.
And even if you’re old, it’s possible for you to play it forever.”
The play byEugene Ionescois about confronting mortality.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
Sarandon’s quest for authenticity traces back to her youth.
Susan Abigail Tomalin was born in Queens, N.Y., and raised mostly in suburban New Jersey.
She adds, “It’s a primer for show business!”
Her mom is also a staunch Republican, and Sarandon’s siblings' politics spin up the gamut.
“I have come to believe firmly in nature,” Sarandon says.
“We had the same parents, but everyone’s very different.”
She cannot pinpoint the reason for her social consciousness.
“I was actually very shy,” she says in her familiar throaty voice.
She tried to find hers, but incongruity seemed all around her.
Original sin didn’t make any sense to me.
Limbo didn’t make any sense.
“It was a time when the issues seemed so clear,” she says.
“It does something wonderful for your soul to walk in another person’s moccasins,” she says.
That, she liked: “To not have structure panics me.
When I took art classes, color just overwhelmed me.
I can’t go into huge department stores.
It’s just too much choice.”
