Actress Susan Sarandon says Family Life Helps Her Produce Movies

Actress Susan Sarandon said that being a mom helps her when it comes to producing movies.

The Thelma and Lousie star has helped produce films including Moonlight Mile, Stepmom and The Last Of The Cowboys

According to The Guardian, the actress said: "As a woman producing a family I'm used to producing, because you have to plan ahead and manage things.

"Producing a film is not that difficult; getting it sold and distributed is where there are the most problems. I come from a large family, I'm the oldest of nine children, so it seems totally understandable for me to live in chaos."

The actress has three children Eva (27), Jack (23) and Miles (20). Sarandon conceived Eva during her relationship with Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri and had her two sons with former partner Tim Robins. The relationship ended in 2009.

Susan and her partner Tim Robbins with their sons in 2005

Sarandon prefers to play bad characters in films.

"You get to say and do things that you never in a million years would do. And very often the bad guys are written just so much better than the good guys.

"If you look at Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking I just walk around saying constantly 'Let us pray' and 'I'm sorry' - there's so much more to play when someone is evil."

Sarandon played an evil witch in 2007's Enchantment