Susan Sarandon Says She's Been Blacklisted by Hollywood Since Speaking About Gaza & Calling for a Ceasefire
Susan Sarandon is claiming she has been blacklisted by Hollywood and the film industry at large for speaking up about Gaza and asking for a ceasefire.
“I was fired by my agency specifically for marching and speaking out about Gaza — for asking for a ceasefire — and it became impossible for me to even be on television,” Susan said during a Barcelona press conference on Friday (February 27) ahead of the 2026 Goya Awards. “I don’t know lately if it’s changed, [but] I couldn’t do any major film, anything connected with Hollywood.”
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Susan was dropped by the United Talent Agency in November 2023 over comments she made at a pro-Palestine rally.
She suggested that Jewish-Americans were “getting a taste of what it is like to be Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence.”
The Thelma & Louise star later apologized in a statement.
Susan has appeared in a few significant films since then, like The Six Triple Eight and Nonnas, but notably both movies were completed before November 2023.
Since that time, she says she has only been able to find work in England and Italy, having done a play at the Old Vic recently for a few months.
“This Italian director that just hired me, he was told not to hire me,” she revealed. “So that’s still recently. He didn’t listen, but they had that conversation. So right now, I kind of specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed and are independent films, and films that are in Europe or in Italy. So that’s the main reason I haven’t been working as much.”
Susan continued, “In a place where you feel repression and censorship, to see Spain and to see the president and what he says, and the support that he’s giving about Gaza, and to have actors like Javier Bardem come forward with such a strong voice is so important to us in the United States.”
“When you turn on the TV and you see how strong Spain is and how clear that you are morally about these issues, it makes you feel less alone, and it makes you feel that there is hope because of you all. You just don’t hear that on television in the United States.”
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