Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Picture this. It’s the set of Bull Durham. Tim Robbins is on the set, reading a script. Susan Sarandon wanders on, ready to shoot a scene.
Their eyes meet.
What happens next?
Well, dating, and lots of it. The two have been a couple since meeting in 1988 (which would make this their twentieth year together – pretty impressive for a Hollywood couple), and despite having never married they seem perfectly happy together.
In fact Robbins was the director of Dead Man Walking, a prison drama that reunited Sarandon with one of her old flames, acclaimed actor Sean Penn. Penn played a convict sentenced to death and Sarandon a nun looking to provide comfort to him, and, ultimately, to discover if he actually committed the crime he’s accused of. It must have made for a slightly weird love triangle on the set, even though it was 11 years after Sarandon and Penn had broken up.