Susan Sarandon turned
down the role of Beryl Thibodeaux, explaining to the Los Angeles Times
in 1992: "The link between violence and sex was very strong. I met with Clint Eastwood
and I said, 'Aren't you worried, especially you, who everybody thinks
is like Man Personified, [that] when your character starts to do some of
this stuff, that it's going to have a link between sex and violence and
treating women badly?' And he said, 'I don't think that it's my job to
worry about that, I'm an actor.' "