The following article contains mentions of child abuse.
Few stars in Hollywood can say they’ve had a career for as long as Sally Field.
It’s just constant movement," Field reflected.
“Constant movement” is the perfect way to describe her career.
“What is there of me that I haven’t experienced yet?”
After all, her home life was troubled, too.
“But he wasn’t.
He could be magical.”
The actor wouldn’t tell her mother about the abuse until many decades later.
However, Field doesn’t look at the series as her big “break.”
“You call that a turn in the road,” she toldYahoo!
“That’s a fork in the road that changes your existence.
That’s not a break.”
However, Field didn’t love that role, either.
Instead, she viewed her time on “The Flying Nun” as an education.
“I learned survival techniques,” she said.
“I learned little exercises to keep myself from tearing my hair out because it was so boring.”
“I was a joke,” she later recalled toBustle.
Instead, she began studying her craft, and her time at The Actors Studio paid off.
“I knew I had to be so good that they couldn’t turn away,” she said.
However,Sally Field admitted she hated locking lips with Burt Reynolds on the big screen.
“It just was not something he really did very well,” she laughed.
“We just forget everything and giggle a lot,” she said.
Nevertheless, when Reynolds later called her the love of his life, Field demurred.
A few years later, Field won again, this time for “Places in the Heart.”
And I can’t deny the fact that you like me!
Right now, you like me!"
“There was this thing with Robin that he always tried to make me laugh.
Two years after that, in 2000, she helmed a feature film called “Beautiful.”
“And I can’t tell enough stories with just me.”
That year, she received an osteoporosis diagnosis, which wasn’t necessarily a surprise.
“It was almost a slam-dunk.”
Using her profile for good, Field became an advocate for people with the bone condition.
Speaking withWebMD, Field explained that a bone scan had revealed she had the disease.
As a result, Field appeared in a series of ads forBoniva, an osteoporosis medication.
She put in several appearances on “E.R.”
in the early 2000s, a role that earned her a second Emmy Award.
She toldEntertainment Weeklythat being back on television felt right because that’s where the most interesting stories were happening.
“I don’t really have a desire to stand there and not be acting.”
The role brought Field even more praise, including yet another Emmy.
In 2012, Greisman introduced his mother during an awards ceremony put on by theHuman Rights Campaign.
“When I came out, she didn’t even bat an eye.
In fact, she was overjoyed.”
In her acceptance speech, Field questioned why her support of her son would even be a question.
And so the f*** what?”
“Don’t put your own prejudices or fears about sexuality … on your children,” she cautioned.
“Sexuality is a human, glorious part of existence.”
She said Spielberg approached her all the way back in 2005, and she agreed to it back then.
As she wrote in her memoir, “In Pieces,” Field was self-conscious about this too.
After she screen-tested for the role, Spielberg told her he would go with someone else.
We can get out.
We can do something, in the rain, whatever it takes" (viaThe Daily Beast).
For her trouble, Field was arrested.
Decades later, Hollywood very much still likes Sally Field.
“We love you.”
While accepting the award, the actor rocked a short haircut highlighting her silver strands.
