Actresses Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne, along with director/writer Lorene Scafaria took part in a conversation event with The MOMS Denise Albert and Melissa Musen Gerstein, with Kmart and Peter Pan Simply Ground Peanut Butter.
The Mamarazzi event at the Crosby Street Theater brought together influential moms and media for a special advance screening of their new film The Meddler, an heartwarming comedy which hits theaters in time for Mother’s Day.
The movie, produced by Joy Gorman Wettels, has been described as “A valentine to mothers everywhere”. It tells the story of an eternally optimistic mother who moves from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be closer to her daughter, a successful screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love.
Susan Sarandon lightheartedly offered insights into the challenges of motherhood and raising teenagers. Sarandon said she usually has too busy a schedule to do too much meddling herself, but rather she and her children tend to meddle an equal amount back and forth. Sarandon does think, however, that “it is better to overstep than not to meddle” and brought up some examples from her own children’s pre-teen and teenage years where she was always very much involved and inquisitive as to what the youngsters were up to.
She pointed out that although they may have not appreciated it at the time, they hopefully saw later on that this was all out of concern for them and appreciated it as a way of wanting to be there for them.
New mom Rose Byrne talked sleep deprivation but wonderful first months of motherhood and how it has been a dream come true to star in a movie with Sarandon, who plays her mother in the film.
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Scafaria, Byrne, Sarandon