Chris Sarandon was a staple of '80s films like Fright Night, Child's Play, and The Princess Bride. But the actor nearly lost everything in the latter half of the decade.
Sarandon, 83, who had also earned an Academy Award nomination for his role opposite Al Pacino in the '70s classic Dog Day Afternoon, became a staple of film favorites throughout the '80s. But in what he calls a "major financial reversal," Sarandon revealed he lost almost every penny he made through his lucrative film career up until then through a bad business deal.
“I invested money with a guy who defrauded me. I bought into a number of brownstone buildings in Manhattan when I was doing well, and the guy ended up being a fraud, and because I had signed all of the mortgages with this guy, I became as liable as he was, not criminally, but financially," Sarandon told the Guardian. "So I lost everything. I’d been saving money all through my career for my old age, and I had to liquidate it.”
One good thing came out of that horrific period, however. Sarandon, who had previously been married to actress Susan Sarandon and Lisa Anne Cooper, met his wife, Joanna Gleason, and moved to Los Angeles.
“That was the beginning of my third life,” he told the publication. “And now here I am.”
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On the Amazing Princess Bride Fandom
Sarandon, who played Prince Humperdinck in the iconic 1978 film opposite Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, and Mandy Patinkin, has some wild memories about the way people have shown just how devoted they are to the movie.
“A woman once walked up to me, held up a battered VHS and said, ‘I used to carry this around in my purse, so that whenever I’d go to visit a friend, I’d pull it out and say, have you seen this?’ She was an evangelist for the Princess Bride,'" Sarandon recalled, noting that the attorney general of Utah told him that “every home in Utah owns a copy of The Princess Bride.”
When asked what the film's tremendous appeal is, Sarandon said it's the tale's harmless and hopeful nature.
“It’s not offensive in any way. There’s no sex in it, there’s very little violence, and its moral lesson is acceptable to just about everybody. But at the same time, it allows you to be both cynical and romantic,” he said, while also noting that it contains painfully honest lines like “Life is pain … anyone who says differently is selling something.”
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