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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