Excerpt from a 1978 interview with Susan Sarandon talking about AWA.
“After that,” Susan recalled, "I got a job in a soap, A World Apart.' I found it to be a wonderful training ground for beginning actors because it fills the gap left by the old B’ pictures. You learn your craft on the job and that’s better than years of classes without having the opportunity of utilizing what you’ve learned. “I worked on the soap with good stage-trained actors like Bill Prince, Augusta Dabney and Stephen Elliott, went through illegitimacies, breakdowns, suicide attempts, something new every day for a year and a half. Because it’s a controlled, comparatively small, situation, you have to get the maximum out of yourself in a little space in a little time. It’s great discipline, wonderful for your confidence, and the money is terrific too.
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