Susan Sarandon’s career is filled with memorable roles like ‘Stay by my side’ or ‘Death penalty’. Although, without a doubt, ‘Thelma & Luise’ is among one of his most remembered films.

Now, on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of this film, at the BCN Film Fest they wanted to pay tribute to it with a special projection. An event that the actress has attended to talk about what this film meant to her and in which she has not hesitated to speak out on other issues such as the vision she has of the film industry.

Susan Saradon has acknowledged that they never thought that this film would become the feminist icon what is today “Sorry to disappoint, but we never saw it as a feminist film. I was very happy to participate in a script that led me to work with another woman whom I did not automatically have to hate just because she was a woman, and who was the basis of many scripts of the time”, she has confessed to the media. Communication.

Besides, he believes that in all this time things They haven’t changed much in Hollywood. “Not so many films about women’s stories were released later and parity at the salary level has not been achieved either. Yes, there are more women producing women’s stories, yes, but the structure of Hollywood is still just as macho. If you are ugly and fat woman, they don’t want you”, he assured.

The actress has criticized that now, to hire actors, what is most taken into account is “the followers they have”. Susan Sarandon has indicated that she feels that “creativity has been lost” and that now everything is seen “from the point of view of marketing”.

This is how the final scene of ‘Thelma & Luise’ was filmed

Regarding the film, Susan Sarandon has acknowledged that they never thought that “would end up meaning so much to so many people.” The actress has recognized that she realized its importance when she saw that there was only talk of the violence that there was or the need to condemn suicide, something that had not happened with ‘Two men and one destiny’, which has several similarities with this movie.

“That’s where we realized we had inadvertently entered this territory dominated by straight white males, and that’s where we saw the film was more feminist.”

On the other hand, she has recognized that the final scene is her favorite part, and that is that she was the one who proposed whatand they ended up giving each other a kiss. “It was something I did and that was not in the script. We recorded that scene the last day in a single take,” she has indicated. The actress has acknowledged that she found the director’s idea, Ridley Scott, to stop the plane with the car in the air incredible.

In addition, he has revealed that this is not the only idea that he contributed to the film, and it is that it was also Susan Sarandon’s proposal that his character would take polaroids to “control everything”.