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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