At 18 I didn't see how the show was perceived. Sally: When it aired in 1965, a season had 36 shows, which is huge. I thought that show had been part of my life for years! Oprah: When I was preparing to talk to you, I didn't realize that Gidget was on for only one season. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work. Sally: It means that in the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. Oprah: You also have two Oscars on that shelf. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn–ish-there was a bit of nobility about her. But I'm always torn with feeling that it isn't enough. Sally: That's the good news about getting older: I can see that I've traveled a long way. When you think back on those years, does it remind you of how far you've come? Oprah: On the shelf in your den, I noticed the TV Guide cover with you as the Flying Nun. Note: This interview appeared in the March 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. Start reading Oprah's interview with Sally Field ![]() I leave with a feeling of gratitude for our time together, as well as a heaping helping of Sally's leftovers in Tupperware containers. She is incredibly honest and very different from the woman you may think she is. We share a scrumptious lunch of sirloin steak, peas, rice, and some of the finest shrimp gumbo I've ever tasted, and then talk in the upstairs master suite, an enormous haven that encompasses a bathroom, a dressing-room-size closet (with a floor-to-ceiling column of hats), an office with a writing desk, and a sitting area where Sally knits. More than a home, it's a retreat for Sally, now 61 and single, and her mother, who lives with Sally. Sally's house was in the path of last October's devastating California wildfires, but somehow it was spared. The constants in her life have been her sons: Peter Craig, 38, a novelist Elijah Craig, 35, an actor, writer, and director and Samuel Greisman, 20, a sophomore in college. She spent five on-and-off years with Burt Reynolds before marrying Alan Greisman, whom she divorced after nine years. At 29 she divorced her high school sweetheart, Steven Craig, after seven years of marriage. Most recently, she won an Emmy for playing the matriarch Nora Walker on ABC's Brothers & Sisters.Īs her roles became more complex, so did her relationships. ![]() She played a student with multiple personality disorder in the 1976 TV movie Sybil, a resolute union organizer in Norma Rae, for which she won her first Oscar, and a desperate Southern widow in Places in the Heart (which brought her Oscar number two). Once Sally got beyond the perky characters of her early TV career, her childhood struggles to stand up for herself became something to draw on for deeper, sometimes darker roles. Army captain Richard Dryden Field, when Sally was 4 Margaret then married stuntman Jock Mahoney (his stage name, changed from O'Mahoney), a volatile stepfather whom Sally feared yet whom she credits for forcing her to learn to survive. Her mother, Margaret Field, divorced Sally's father, U.S. ![]() Looking at the photos, it's incredible to realize that Sally had her own TV series before she was 20 and two kids before she was 25.įor a child born in Pasadena, California, to an actress, Hollywood might not seem a large leap. In one shot, she beams as her eldest son, Peter Craig, then a toddler, sits on her shoulders another frame holds the TV Guide cover of Sally in The Flying Nun, a comedy beloved by viewers but the cause of much angst for its star. The hallways and shelves are filled with photos that span four decades of Sally's life. In the den in Sally Field's Malibu home, two Oscars, a few Emmys, and a couple of Golden Globes stand in full salute aside a framed cartoon drawing of Sally as Gidget, the 1965 TV character that launched her career. Now the amazingly resilient actress talks about growing up in the shadow of violence, using anger as a survival tool, hiding herself in Gidget, finding herself in Sybil, and how, at 61, she's finally found a measure of peace. ![]() I was a walking sight gag") to the triumph of Brothers & Sisters (with a string of awards along the way). She's gone from the embarrassment of Sister Bertrille ("a pregnant flying nun.
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