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Susan Sarandon confirms past romance with David Bowie

Susan Sarandon, the Hollywood actress, has revealed she had a heated romance with David Bowie in the 1980s.

Sarandon, 67, the star of 'Thelma & Louise', described the singer as "extraordinary" and "worth idolising."

They met whilst filming 'The Hunger', the 1983 horror movie directed by the late Tony Scott which also featured Catherine Deneuve and goth band, Bauhaus.

In the movie Deneuve and Bowie played a couple of vampires who had loved each other over the centuries. When the Bowie character dies, Deneuve seduces Sarandon to become her new partner.

Sarandon revealed the relationship in an interview about her new film 'Last of Robin Hood', which centres on a romance between a young woman and an older movie star.

Asked if she herself had ever had a "wild love affair with a big celebrity" she told the Daily Beast: "There have been a couple of famous, pretty interesting ones. One rock star, and another actor."

When asked to say who the rock star was, she replied" Bowie."

She added: "He's worth idolising. He's extraordinary. That was a really interesting period. I wasn't supposed to have kids, and I'm the oldest of nine and had mothered all of them, so I wasn't ever in a mode to where I was looking to settle down and raise a family. So that definitely changes the gene pool you're dipping into.

"But Bowie's just a really interesting person, and so bright. He's a talent, and a painter, and...he's great."

Bowie, 67, and his first wife Angie were divorced in 1980. In 1992 he married his current wife, the model Iman.

Sarandon said she had not "hooked up" with many movie or rock stars because she was married throughout her 20s.

Watch the trailer for 'The Hunger' below (look out for a young Willem Dafoe).