Jessica Lange supported her canceled pal Susan Sarandon as they stepped out in New York City this week, a year after her controversial Palestine rally remarks.
Tootsie star Lange, 75, enjoyed a dog walk with her former Feud: Bette and Joan co-star, 78, Sarandon.
Oscar winner Lange wore a quilted coat and black slacks, paired with tinted shades for the stroll.
Sarandon, who picked up the Best Actress Academy award in 1996 for Dead Man Walking, wore a plum coat, joggers and a black hat during a rare public outing.
The acting juggernauts united on screen in Feud’s first season in 2017 which documented the rivalry between Hollywood actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis during and after the production of their psychological horror thriller film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).
In 2023 Sarandon was dropped by her Hollywood representative, United Talent Agency, which is run by Jewish CEO Jeremy Zimmer, for her comments.
Jessica Lange supported her canceled pal Susan Sarandon as they stepped out in New York City this week, a year after her controversial Palestine rally remarks
The Rocky Horror Picture Show star caused controversy after she claimed Jewish people ‘are getting a taste of what it feels like to be Muslim’ amid the war with Hamas at a rally in New York City – pictured November 2023
The Rocky Horror Picture Show star caused controversy after she claimed Jewish people ‘are getting a taste of what it feels like to be Muslim’ amid the war with Hamas at a rally in New York City.
She then apologized for her remarks, saying that she had not planned to speak at the rally, but had been invited to address the crowd, and had intended to ‘highlight the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza’.
In an interview with The Times Sarandon has reflected on how the controversy led to the departure of her agent and how she is no longer able to star in mainstream studio films.
She told the publication: ‘I was dropped by my agency, my projects were pulled. I’ve been used as an example of what not to do if you want to continue to work.
‘There are so many people out of work right now since November of last year… who have lost their jobs as custodians, as writers, as painters, as people working in the cafeteria, substitute teachers who have been fired because they tweeted something, or liked a tweet, or asked for a ceasefire.’
Asked if she would ever be offered a big film role again she replied: ‘I don’t know. Not anything in Hollywood.’
Back in July 2024 Susan apologized for her remarks, saying her ‘phrasing was a terrible mistake’ while covering the latest issue of Elle Spain.
She also reiterated her desire to end the ‘genocide’ in Gaza, saying she had long been motivated to stand against injustice.
Tootsie star Lange, 75, enjoyed a dog walk with her former Feud: Bette and Joan co-star, 78, Sarandon – amid Sarandon’s career blacklisting
The acting juggernauts united on screen in Feud’s first season in 2017 which documented the rivalry between Hollywood actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis
Sarandon has since admitted she will ‘never work again’ after her remarks (pictured March 2024)
Covering the magazine, the actress explained that her position has a famous actress is a ‘loudspeaker’ allowing her to bring visibility to social issues.
Accepting that by speaking out she has ensured her blacklisting by a large part of the industry, Susan insisted that everyone had to come together to stop Israelis and Palestinians dying, because ‘no one deserves to die this way.’
She said: ‘Injustice has always hurt and angered me. I grew up in Washington in the 60s, with the Vietnam War hovering over that time and assassinations like Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr. overshadowing our culture.
‘I didn’t have to force myself to educate myself in this sense, it was the only plausible option.
‘That’s why I’m so surprised by the misinformation that exists today, at a time when we have everything within our reach.
‘It is up to each of us to stop the genocide that is happening in Gaza, and that means that Israelis and Palestinians stop dying. No one deserves to die this way.
‘I understand that it is hard to accept that we are all part of the problem, but a war like this is only forged with our taxes, with your money and mine.
‘That’s why it’s admirable that countries like Spain, Ireland or Norway raise their voices and say: ‘We don’t want to contribute to this.”
Susan recalled: ‘I realized that my profession carried with it a loudspeaker in the 70s, when the United States introduced the Equal Rights Amendment.
‘At one of the marches I was walking with Marlo Thomas, and she said to me: ‘The only way we are going to be in the news is for you to speak.’ And I did it, scared to death but I did it, because it is the way of life that I conceive.’
Susan has previously protested for the visibility of AIDS, to end the war in Iraq and against gun violence, even being arrested.
She was arrested in June 2018 at the Women Disobey protests for protesting against Donald Trump’s controversial migrant policy of separating children from their parents.
