Susan Sarandon is revealing that she was originally cast in the role played by Cher in their 1987 film “The Witches of Eastwick”, but that Cher convinced the movie’s producers to swap their roles.
While Cher played an earth-goddess sculptress, Sarandon played a straight-laced, cello-playing teacher alongside third “witch” Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson as the devil.
In a candid conversation with the film’s screenwriter, reports Page Six, Sarandon explained what took place. RELATED: Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet Lead Ensemble Family Drama ‘Blackbird’ “I initially was cast in Cher’s part, and didn’t find out till I got to L.A. — because I was living in Rome — that I was actually moved to a different part,” she told screenwriter Michael
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