Susan Sarandon Shares Love for Morocco, Advocates for Travel as Mind-Opening Experience

"I really believe that traveling really opens your mind," she says to The National. "If you’re curious, you’re exposed to all kinds of cultures and the beauty of nature. I think it’s very lucky if you can travel, and it’s very important to try to do it," adds this travel enthusiast who shares this culture and passion with her daughter Eva Amurri, 36, and her sons Jack Robbins, 32, and Miles Robbins, 29. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the 75-year-old actress has visited Morocco several times, one of her favorite destinations.

"Morocco is quite amazing, it’s a very different culture and it’s a really easy trip from New York. I mean, it’s the same as going to California. I went to Marrakech [...] because there’s a festival that I did," she says, referring to the Marrakech International Film Festival. In addition to the ochre city, she visited Fez and Essaouira. "I liked Fez even more. It’s a little more friendly, it’s smaller, but it has the same kind of interesting personality and it’s just not as huge and busy and touristy. And Essaouira, I’ve been there a few times too," she says.

In 1998, the Oscar-winning actress had traveled to Morocco in 1998, in the middle of filming the movie Stepmom. "I realized that the schedules allowed that, during the Christmas holidays, we could go to Morocco. I think my youngest at the time was 5 years old," she says. Susan Sarandon says she is grateful for the experience of going to Morocco and explaining the culture, the call to prayer, and everything to her children before 9/11 (2001). "Because they had an experience of that culture that made it then difficult to accept the most superficial explanation of what was happening at the time."