If you’ve always dreamed of running into award-winning actress Susan Sarandon on the streets of L.A. or New York you better hope that Republican John McCain doesn’t win November’s presidential election.
If not your chances of seeing Sarandon and her longtime partner Tim Robbins anywhere in the United States is slim to none.
At least according to Sarandon.
The outspoken movie star recently vowed to leave the United States with her family if either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton doesn’t replace George W. Bush in the White House. Though, if she had her choice Sarandon says she would prefer to see Obama become the next leader of the free world.
Sarandon defended her support of Obama over Clinton in a recent interview with the New York Post saying, “I thought the whole point of feminism is that you’re not supposed to be defined by gender. I don’t understand the reasoning behind that, because I wouldn’t vote for (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice, and I hated (former British prime minister) Margaret Thatcher.”
Sarandon added that she isn’t house hunting in Sweden or buying moving boxes just because she “has faith in the American people.”
Meanwhile, actress Sarah Jessica Parker says while she hasn’t publicly endorsed a specific presidential candidate (yet) she does have experience standing up for what she believes in.
In a recent interview with Marie Claire magazine, the “Sex and the City” star revealed that she spent a good chunk of her childhood attending protests with her parents in her hometown of Nelsonville, Ohio.
Parker added that she thinks attending the rallies is what turned her into the free-thinking woman she is today.
“I spent my whole childhood on protest marches, against the Vietnam War; protesting against fast-food developments in my small town; protesting for a woman’s right to choose; wearing black armbands to support political prisoners,” the actress told the magazine.
“I come from a long line of protesters. So, it has definitely been an influence and I’m really glad of it, because it opened my brain and really made me think about other people and made me politically involved.”
And when the time comes Parker says she just might reveal which political star she wants to see in the White House come January.