Oscar-winning actress Sally Field gets real with Ben Mankiewicz. Drawing on her memoir In Pieces, she discusses her fraught relationship with ex-boyfriend/Smokey and the Bandit co-star Burt Reynolds and his similarity to her abusive step-father. During The Flying Nun she was introduced to the Actors Studio where she transformed from a sitcom actress Hollywood had written off into someone who could fight for Norma Rae, fight Spielberg twice for Lincoln, and win both battles. In the Super 8 she praises the work of Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and reveals she rarely cries at movies.
Films Mentioned:
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Smokey and the Bandit
Sybil
Norma Rae
The Way West
Places in the Heart
Lincoln
Gone with the Wind
Them!
The Searchers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Charade
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Enchanted Cottage
A Letter to Three Wives
Hooper
Absence of Malice
Steel Magnolias
Forrest Gump
Hud
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Ben: I wish you didn’t interrupt and talk over Sally so many times.
Thanks SOO much I”ve always enjoyed Sally Field.i rally enjoyed your work, Mr. Mankiewicz thanks again
OMG! Sally Field was Jock Mahoney’s stepdaughter?!! Well, THAT is some kind of wowowow stuff. I watched “Range Rider” as a kid and loved him! Learning of his dark side would be shattering to my image of him (if I didn’t already understand that we have a dark side…no point here other than the stark new connection.
Burt was a low life and the last person to see inger stevens alive. $500 per wk in 1965 is equivalent to $5300 now
Streep, stand aside. I prefer Sally. She is just as great as you are.
Overtly political movies are a big turnoff. If one defines “Norma Rae” as overtly political, then it is an exception to my rule.
Enjoyed this. Thanks.