Hollywood heavyweight Susan Sarandon has weighed in on the Barnaby Joyce saga labeling Australia’s deputy prime minister a ‘hypocrite’.
Susan, who is in Australia to judge Sydney’s Tropfest Film Festival, did not seem surprised when she was told about the scandal that saw Barnaby, 50, leave his wife of 24 years years after impregnating his former 33-year-old staffer.
Speaking with The Sydney Morning Herald, the 71-year-old actress said ‘it just seems as if government these days is so full of reactionary hypocrites’.
‘He’s a hypocrite’: Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon SLAMS Barnaby Joyce over his affair scandal claiming ‘men who are most right-wing always seem to lead a double life’
The actress went on to say that it seems men who ‘are the most ring-wing seems to lead this other life’.
Susan also rubbished Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s controversial ban on sex between ministers and their staff.
‘It’ll make it hotter,’ she said. ‘If everything has to be a secret it’ll be even sexier’.
Susan has a long history of activism on such issues as empowering women and, most recently, her negative opinion on former US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
It was this recent stance that she says left her ‘shunned’ by her peers.
Not surprised: Susan, who is in Australia to judge Sydney’s Tropfest Film Festival, did not seem surprised when she was told about the scandal that saw Barnaby, 50, leave his wife of 24 years years after impregnating his former 33-year-old staffer.
Speaking her mind: The actress went on to say that it seems men who ‘are the most ring-wing seems to lead this other life’
‘The things that I regret are only things I didn’t say or do, even though I went through a pretty scary time leading up to Iraq, and I certainly – in not supporting Hillary Clinton – ended up getting an enormous amount of heat about that,’ she said.
Clear in her views, the Thelma and Louise star continued: ‘I just know for all the unkind or hurtful things, or scary things that have happened because of an unpopular stand with the war or whatever, I don’t regret it.’
Last year, Susan announced she was glad Hillary Clinton lost the election because she’s ‘very dangerous’ and America would be ‘at war.’
Standing firm: Last year, Susan announced she was glad Hillary Clinton lost the election because she’s ‘very dangerous’ and America would be ‘at war.’
Changing times: Sarandon hasn’t always been such a staunch Clinton opponent. In 2001, she even backed her for the Senate and posed with the former First Lady during her run.
The outspoken star faced a furious backlash from the left who accused her of allowing Donald Trump to win because she’d refused to vote for Clinton in the US election.
Susan hasn’t always been such a staunch Clinton opponent. In 2001, she even backed her for the Senate and posed with the former First Lady during her run.
But that all changed when Clinton voted for the war in Iraq. Since then Susan has refused to support the former Secretary of State – even if that meant alienating herself from her fellow liberals.