I’ve always been a fan of Sally Field. She is a legend and truly a gifted actress. And the 76-year-old has shared many on-screen romances in her storied career.
She has had, therefore, her fair share of on-screen kisses as well. She recently shared which has been the worst, although she hesitated to admit which costar it was with at first.
Considered one of the most versatile and talented actresses of her generation, Sally Field can look back on a fantastic career in Hollywood. She has charmed us with some iconic roles in numerous films and tv shows.
For example, I will never forget her unforgettable performance in Steel Magnolias and that funeral scene. Sally did an excellent job of portraying a woman torn by love, discouragement, anger, and loss.
But of course, she’s also famous for her roles in famous movies and series like Gidget, The Flying Nun, Smokey and the Bandit, Forrest Gump, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Erin Brockovich.
Sally was born into a working-class showbiz family in Pasadena, California.
Sally Field during Tapeing the “The Bill Boggs Show” – November 1, 1977 in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
But her childhood was far from a fairytale. In her memoirs, Sally wrote that her stepfather did some very bad things to her and she had a secret abortion at 17.
Yet she turned out to be such a beautiful, humble human being.
As for today, Sally still continues to work regularly. She played Janice in the 2020 TV series Dispatches From Elsewhere. In 2022, she stars as Jessie Buss in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, the popular tv series that portrays the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers.
So considering how active she is, it’s not surprising that Sally appears in interviews from time to time.
On the Dec. 1 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Sally Field, 76, revealed her worst on-screen kiss after a fan’s question. Laughing, she admitted it was with her former boyfriend, Burt Reynolds, during the filming of Smokey and the Bandit.
Field explained she had to “look the other way” during their scenes, adding that kissing Reynolds “just wasn’t something he really did for you” due to excessive drooling. The two dated for five years after meeting in 1977.
Reynolds, who passed away at 82, later expressed regret about their relationship in his memoir, wishing he had tried harder to make it work.
