TMC
01-17-2023, 01:15 AM
https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/sally-field-gidget-the-flying-nun-sybil-oscars-interview
“When I was 28, it was the beginning of my transition into film. I had worked really hard to try to make that transition,” Field, 76, tells Bustle. “Nowadays, there is no transition. They’ve learned that people who are successful in [TV] can be successful [movies]. But in those days, if you were were in situation comedy, you died in situation comedy.”
“No one wanted me in the room, and I knew full well no one wanted me in the room,” Field recalls of auditioning to play the 1976 television film’s eponymous protagonist, who suffers from multiple personality disorder. “I knew I had to be so good that they couldn't turn away. Then you can feel it. All of a sudden, ‘Oh my God, they’re interested!’”
“If there's a job that you really want — because you know that's going to catapult you to the next place that you need to be in the craft — but the people around you are jerks or something, sometimes you need to swallow that for a moment to get to your work,” says Field, who currently stars in the romantic drama Spoiler Alert. “Focus on your work, [and] you will leave them behind. At one point [you’ll] and look back on them and go, ‘Too bad for you!’”
“When I was 28, it was the beginning of my transition into film. I had worked really hard to try to make that transition,” Field, 76, tells Bustle. “Nowadays, there is no transition. They’ve learned that people who are successful in [TV] can be successful [movies]. But in those days, if you were were in situation comedy, you died in situation comedy.”
“No one wanted me in the room, and I knew full well no one wanted me in the room,” Field recalls of auditioning to play the 1976 television film’s eponymous protagonist, who suffers from multiple personality disorder. “I knew I had to be so good that they couldn't turn away. Then you can feel it. All of a sudden, ‘Oh my God, they’re interested!’”
“If there's a job that you really want — because you know that's going to catapult you to the next place that you need to be in the craft — but the people around you are jerks or something, sometimes you need to swallow that for a moment to get to your work,” says Field, who currently stars in the romantic drama Spoiler Alert. “Focus on your work, [and] you will leave them behind. At one point [you’ll] and look back on them and go, ‘Too bad for you!’”