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The country music world was foreign to the star. “I just go where the fun is, where I haven’t been before,” Sarandon said on Fox’s Television Critics Tour. “I never knew it. I smoked a joint with Willie Nelson. That’s as deep as I go.”
With an acting career spanning five decades, Susan Sarandon has racked up six Emmy and five Oscar nods. After starting out as a model before working as an actress on soap operas, the star, who turns 76 on October 4, has since demonstrated a knack for choosing complicated and thrilling roles – including Atlantic City (1980), (1991), (1992) and (1994), which earned her Oscar nominations before she won for (1995).
