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TIFF QUOTED: Susan Sarandon on the importance of being Indian

By Andrew D’Cruz

| August 27, 2012

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Susan Sarandon: not actually an Indian man (Image: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images)

I play a lot of little parts, nothing like what Halle and Tom are doing throughout the film.... I play an Indian man. I hope I don’t get in trouble for that.

—Susan Sarandon on her many roles in the hotly anticipated Cloud Atlas. [Indiewire]

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