Talking Pictures

Sally Field

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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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