Susan Sarandon says her public support for Palestine continues to affect her work opportunities in Hollywood, telling reporters that she has “still had movies taken away recently.”
The actor made the remarks Sunday during a Venice Film Festival press conference for her new film, “The Echo Chamber,” where she was asked whether she believes the industry conversation is shifting around the conflict in Gaza.
Sarandon’s answer suggested that, in her view, any change has not erased professional consequences. She said there are “agencies that are telling people not to hire me,” directly linking those alleged pressures to her outspoken support of Palestine.
The comments place Sarandon’s experience inside a broader entertainment-industry debate over how public positions on Gaza and Palestine are received by studios, agencies and collaborators. Based on her remarks, Sarandon is not framing the issue as a past controversy but as something she says is still affecting her career in the present.
Her statement at Venice came as she was promoting “The Echo Chamber,” bringing the issue into a film-festival setting where press conferences often expand beyond a project itself into questions about politics, culture and the business of moviemaking.
Sarandon did not, in the supplied material, name specific films she says were taken away or identify the agencies she referred to. Her comments remain her account of recent professional fallout connected to her Palestine advocacy.
For now, the significance of the remarks lies in their timing and venue: Sarandon is speaking about alleged ongoing career repercussions while appearing at one of the industry’s major festival platforms, and while being asked directly whether Hollywood’s narrative around Gaza is changing.