Susan Sarandon’s Daughter Takes TV Role As A Stripper

By Akela Talamasca on September 21st, 2009

evaamurri Susan Sarandon’s 24 year old daughter Eva Amurri has landed a role in “Californication“, David Duchovny’s hit series now in its third season. Her role as a student who moonlights as a stripper required her to learn some new skills, after which she says she has found new respect for those who pole dance.

Ms. Amurri is not the first woman to speak of the empowering nature of stripping, and in the video she links it to learning to move in a different way. However, the profession does still carry with it a seedy connotation, and it’s frequently seen as a last-resort job and something to be ashamed of.

We know that there are women in the world who have been forced by circumstance to take up stripping when no alternatives remained. There are also women who have chosen to strip while pursuing degrees in college. There are also those women who started out stripping, and left the job at some point after getting married, or becoming pregnant, or just after feeling it was time to move on. There are as many ways to approach the situation as there are people who perform it.

I wonder how Susan Sarandon feels about her daughter’s new role? Having been in the acting biz for a long time (and one of her most memorable roles being “Janet” from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, in which she dances and sings dressed in lacy underthings), does she feel that any gig is a good one? Does she feel any sort of discomfort seeing her daughter on the pole? Would she refuse to watch? Would she feel differently if her daughter actually were a stripper? How far does our desire to let our kids live their own lives extend before turning into judgment?