Rabat – American actress Susan Sarandon expressed her love for Morocco’s diversity and culture in a recent interview with the National News.
“Morocco is quite amazing, it’s a very different culture and it’s a really easy trip from New York. I mean it is the same as going to California,” she said.
The actress especially reminisced about her trips to Marrakech and Fez.
“I’ve been to Marrakech, of course, because there’s a festival that I did,” she said, referencing the Marrakech International Film Festival.
But the American actress said she liked the spiritual city of Fez “even more” for its less touristy and more personal vibe.
“It’s a little bit more user-friendly, it’s smaller, but it has the same kind of interesting personality and is just not quite as huge and busy and touristy,” she said.
She spoke of visiting Morocco’s Essaouira a few times, an even smaller and more personable city she also loved.
For Sarandon, travel is important to “help broaden the mind.”
The actress also spoke about how she was able to squeeze a trip to Morocco in 1998 while shooting the movie “Stepmom.”
Sarandon further talked about being grateful, long before the anti-Muslim fever that marked life in the US in the aftermath of 9/11, for the opportunity to live in Morocco and for being able to explain to her children the country’s culture and the significance of the Islamic call to prayer.
“Because they had an experience of that culture that then made it difficult just to accept the most superficial explanation of what was happening back then,” she added.
Sarandon is not the first public figure to fall in love with Morocco’s charming culture and diversity.
Many public figures and celebrities from the US and elsewhere have fondly spoken of their stay in the North African country.
In 2018, Madonna traveled to Morocco to celebrate her 60th birthday in Marrakech.
After her visit, the queen of pop shared multiple videos and pictures, thanking “magical Morocco” for hosting her.
