The 79-year-old icon is spilling fresh tea on her bumpy rise from sitcom queen to Oscar legend. Jack Nicholson gets hero status while Burt Reynolds gets called out for trying to control her every move.
Sally Field just dropped major revelations in a People interview about the early career roadblocks that nearly derailed her. After The Flying Nun typecast her, she says studios wouldn’t even let her audition. Enter Jack Nicholson, who spotted her grinding at the Actors Studio and vouched for her as “an undiscovered talent,” leading straight to her 1976 breakthrough in Stay Hungry alongside Jeff Bridges and a young Arnold Schwarzenegger. “It was the beginning of the change,” she recalled.
