Decades after leading in the now-iconic 1988 film Bull Durham, Hollywood icons Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon have reunited. That classic rom-com, full of baseball and love, captured the heart of every viewer and remains an entity dear to their heart. Costner played “Crash” Davis, a veteran minor league catcher, while Sarandon played Annie Savoy, an ardent baseball fan with a penchant for romantic entanglements. Its sizzling on-screen chemistry and mesmerizing performance made its mark in popular culture, thus making *Bull Durham* one of those popular touchstones.
With the recent reunion of Costner and Sarandon, old memories were awakened amongst their fans as to how proud they were to see how far both had come from the movie got released. Both have been very successful and career diverse, each starring in a wide variety of films and television over the last three decades.
Costner of “Dances with Wolves”, “The Bodyguard”, and more lately from the series “Yellowstone” just seems to keep growing as an actor and filmmaker. He won two Academy Awards for “Dances with Wolves”. So far, he has remained consistent in both film and television. Sarandon, for her part, has remained a surprise to audiences with the character roles she has played in “Thelma & Louise”, “Dead Man Walking”, and “The Meddler”. Powerful performances and impassioned activism have kept her in the public eye both as an incredibly talented actor and as a very powerful voice for social justice.
Their reunion is a nostalgic echo of their earlier work but also representative of how each has grown and reached different milestones in his or her respective careers. Both Costner and Sarandon reminisce about their time when they filmed “Bull Durham” and what a very long time it has been since then. Sarandon spoke of their long journey and claimed that as far as the personal and professional life was concerned, “both of them had come a long way”. Costner had chimed in and praised Sarandon to still be fired up about acting and activism.
The reunion of the favorite movie of the fans left them thrilled to see the duo once more; many reminisced over their favorite moments in “Bull Durham”. This reunion also signifies that actors and the film which brought them together all those years ago remain relevant.
