Susan Sarandon

Podcrushed

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Susan Sarandon, the actor whose five decade career has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award for Best Actress, joins the pod to talk about her early days as a God-fearing Catholic kid in New Jersey. She details the unexpected and serendipitous path that led her to acting, and talks about her new film Nonnas, about a man who risks everything to honor his late mother by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs. And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Nava-Kavelin/9781668077993 Want more from Podcrushed? Follow our social channels here: Insta: https://bit.ly/PodcrushedInsta TikTok: https://bit.ly/PodcrushedTikTok X: https://bit.ly/PodcrushedTwitter You can follow Penn, Sophie and Nava here: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/pennbadgley/ https://www.instagram.com/scribbledbysophie/ https://www.instagram.com/nnnava/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iampennbadgley https://www.tiktok.com/@scribbledbysophie https://www.tiktok.com/@nkavelin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:06.6	And I remember the first time I heard someone say a fucking bag of potato chips, and I was thinking,
0:12.3	how can a bag of potato chips be fucking, you know, but not even if you weren't allowed.
0:20.0	Welcome to Pod Crush. We're hosts. I'm Penn. I'm Nava. And weren't allowed. Welcome to Pod Crush.
0:21.7	We're hosts.
0:22.5	I'm Penn.
0:23.4	I'm Nava.
0:24.2	And I'm Sophie.
0:25.2	And I think we would have been your middle school besties.
0:27.3	Praying so hard it makes your rosary beats glow.
0:30.4	No?
0:30.8	Is that not relatable?
0:31.8	Is that not?
0:32.2	Did you not have?
0:32.5	Not everyone had that experience?
0:34.1	No.
0:35.3	Welcome to Podcrush.
0:37.6	Sorry, I'm still figuring this whole hosting thing out.
0:41.8	I'm joined by my co-host Navakavlin and Sophie and Sari.
0:46.6	And we're here to talk about...
0:50.3	Well, I want to talk to you guys about a new hobby I have discovered. So, you know, we were in New York and every time we're together, of course, we have to record TikToks. We have to film some content. We have to. And I realized, yeah, yeah, we have to. It's in your contract, Ben. No, I realized there were a couple where Penn had to, like, direct me. I had to act just a tiny
1:16.1	bit. He's like, okay, now you're going to have to look bored or you're going to have to
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