Goldie Hawn “really wanted” Sally Field to do First Wives Club
Sally Field spills on some of the projects she's turned down, including Romancing The Stone and First Wives Club
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No one can deny that Hollywood likes Sally Field. She’s cultivated her career from singing nun to Oscar winner to elder stateswoman of film. According to a new interview from People, she did so by being choosy about her projects, recognizing her strengths and understanding her own weaknesses. “I know there’s a territory that I can own, and some where I dare you to be as good as me, and then there’s some I can fake,” she tells the outlet. “But really, I would rather not be faking it.”
This has meant turning down some big opportunities along the way. One example, she reveals, was First Wives Club with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler. “Goldie really wanted me to do it,” she says of the role that eventually went to Diane Keaton. “Maybe it would have been fun, but they were all so musical, and I’m not. And the movie wouldn’t have been the same.”
Romancing The Stone is another project to which she said no: “My instinct was there’s somebody else out there who’s better,” claims the prescient Field,
“And that somebody was Kathleen Turner. That long-legged Kathleen, with her husky voice. I mean, she’s still breathtakingly good. And she’s so sweet. There’s nobody else like her.”
Apparently, the Steel Magnolias star also turned down some female-centric projects in her day. “I have avoided some other films that are groups of ladies because I have certain feelings that women are about so much more than just looking for a date or who’s my next husband.” Clearly, 80 For Brady transcends this superficial categorization, and lucky for us it does. (The press tour alone was worth the price of admission!) There’s an alternate universe somewhere in which she was also part of the First Wives Club girl gang, but in this universe, one has to appreciate Field’s instincts for the right part.
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I grew up watching Diane Keaton in movies, and I always thought she was a brilliant actor who really imbued her characters with intelligence and naturalness. But in The First Wives Club she just seemed to be shrieking all the time. I had to turn it off. Sally Field might actually have been preferable.
When was she a singing nun?
It was one of her personalities in ‘Sybil.’
She was a flying nun. Not a singing nun
I totally remember the flying one!
Singing, Flying – same thing really.
You must be a really good singer. Jealous am I.
I don’t know about singing, but I hear she can do a great hummer.
We got a gerbil comedian here!
I’ll be here all week – may sure to tip your server!
She’s right about Kathleen in Romancing the Stone. I’ve rewatched that movie more times than I can count over the last 40 years, and she absolutely kills it. That said, I could still pretty easily see Sally in that role as well.
That image of Goldie Hawn looks DALL-E sourced.