SUSAN SARANDON - SARANDON'S BROADWAY RUN IS HURTING HER PRIDE

SARANDON'S BROADWAY RUN IS HURTING HER PRIDE

SUSAN SARANDON's return to Broadway reminds her she's an ageing star in a youth-obsessed industry.
Sarandon, 62, will take to the New York stage this month (Mar09) for a three month run of Eugene Ionesco's drama Exit The King.
And she admits playing the elder ex-wife of a dying monarch, portrayed by Aussie actor Geoffrey Rush, has heightened her fears about competing for work with young showbiz starlets.
She tells New York magazine, "Everyone calls her (my character) a b**ch and a cow, and it isn't easy to be in that place all day. And how about for an ageing actress? That's even worse! You're constantly being reminded that you've been replaced in the kingdom.
"I'm discovering that I'm vainer than I thought. My ego has completely gotten ahold of me. This has been a shock!"
But Sarandon has no regrets about taking on the role, adding, "Anything this unsettling has to be worthwhile."
The play will mark Sarandon's first trip to Broadway since she appeared in Gore Vidal's An Evening With Richard Nixon and... in 1972.