It’s her birthday today! Happy birthday, Susan! Anyway, I swear, I feel like I’ve read this Susan Sarandon interview before, but I guess I’m wrong. It seems to be new. Maybe she’s just been repeating herself lately? Could be. Anyway, Susan has given an extensive interview to The Telegraph to promote her supporting part in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (I think she plays Shia LaBeouf’s mother, maybe), and no subjects are off-limits. She talks about sex, tattoos and her split from Tim Robbins. Oh, and the interview takes place at the ping-pong club Susan is invested in – the same place where her young lover, Jonathan Bricklin, is a co-owner. The full piece is here, and here are some highlights:

On Botox: ‘I’m afraid of Botox, As an actress you have to use your face. But I do think a woman has a right to do whatever she wants with her body.’

On drugs and clean living: ‘I was lucky to come of age at a time when there were consciousness-opening drugs as opposed to the meaner chemical drugs.’ Later she mentions that she is on a health kick, not even drinking coffee. So drugs are out of the question then, I say. ‘I wouldn’t go that far,’ says Sarandon, laughing. ‘And I do like tequila.’

On her first husband, Chris Sarandon, who she married when she was 20 years old: ‘He was the first person I ever had sex with and my best friend. I married so young but took it very seriously; I never had that kind of free-love 1960s. I was slow to lose my virginity. In fact, throughout my life I’ve been with so few people; I’m one of those serial monogamists. I was never that wild, although I was a bit of a hippie chick. I think I probably still am a hippie chick.’

On getting cougar parts: ‘Certainly if there is an older woman/younger guy theme they seem to come to me. I think it’s great that people see me as being multifaceted and still desirable and smart and funny. What more could you ask?’

On her politics: ‘I’ve never had anyone come up and say to me, “You suck as an actor,” but I’ve had people say, “You commie c–nt,” which is shocking when you’re nursing a baby in the middle of the afternoon.’

On not ever marrying Tim Robbins: ‘I’ve always liked the idea of choosing to be with somebody, I thought that if you didn’t get married you wouldn’t take each other for granted as easily. I don’t know if after twentysomething years that was still true.’

On their split: ‘People were coming up to me in the street and saying “I cried and cried when I heard.” Well, I was sadder! I didn’t think it would ever happen, either.’ She implies that her relationship with Robbins ran its course. ‘You bring people into your life at certain times. Maybe you have a relationship to have children and you realise that it’s fulfilled after that point.’

On the dating-Bricklin rumors: Rumour has it that Sarandon is involved with her Spin business partner, Jonathan Bricklin, 31, who is chatting to her when I arrive. ‘You have to have a sense of humour,’ she says about the reports. ‘There are lots of people in my life at the moment.’

[From The Telegraph]

So… I guess Susan is dating Bricklin, and probably some other dudes. I have to admit, if I was an older gentleman, I would probably go for Susan. She seems like a lot of fun, and I buy that she really is this natural. She’s not the woman who has to get Botoxed for every event, she’s not the woman who puts herself out there as the “Look At Me, I’m Still Sexy!” cougar. Hell, I’d kind of like to date her right now.

Look at these sexy photos of Susan making out with Matthew Fox!