Hoffman waits 23 years to marry Sarandon

Actor Dustin Hoffman jokes that he has been waiting for 23 years to marry Susan Sarandon.

The pair star as a grieving husband and wife coming to terms with the death of their daughter in new movie Moonlight Mile.

Hoffman says: “We met when she read for 1979’s Kramer Vs Kramer. We connected and I was hoping she’d play the wife.” That role went to Meryl Streep, however.

He finally gets his chance in Moonlight Mile and says he’d love to be Sarandon’s husband in real-life too.

But Hoffman, who is married with four children, adds: “Just not in this lifetime. I don’t want to get divorced again.

“But there are people out there that we bump into and think, ‘I probably could have been married to that person’.

“With Susan it’s a combination of things. Chemistry is one of them, but that’s the kind of sexual heat she puts in everyone’s head.

“Aside from that, she’s in her 50s. Thank god we have one representative of the female gender who can disprove the notion that that age is just a sanctuary for middle-aged men.”