Legendary actress Sally Field has spent more than six decades in the entertainment industry, but the “Steel Magnolias” actress is not slowing down.
Field, now 79, opened up about her dreams for her future during an appearance on “Today” on Tuesday, May 5.
Sally Field’s Dreams
The “Mrs. Doubtfire” actress sat down with Carson Daly on Tuesday, May 5, to discuss her upcoming Netflix film, “Remarkably Bright Creatures.”
Daly shared a clip from 1993 of Field on “Today” discussing her career and her dreams for the future.
“I do think that, quite honestly, I’m changing,” Field said in the throwback clip. “Because I’ve gotten all my dreams. I think you’re always sorting out your life and saying, ‘Now, what are my dreams? Now where am I going?'”
The former MTV TRL host turned the tables to ask Field the same question she posed more than three decades ago.
“Home. I can’t wait to get there,” the “Forrest Gump” actress laughed. “My dreams have always been — and I realized even then — this is what I do…This is what I do. I’m an actor. And I’m proud to be an actor. As I get older, and I’m months away from being 80, to find roles about 80-year-old women is my dream. That’s it.”
Sally Field Reflects on 62-Year Career
Field, who has won two acting Oscars throughout her career, reflected on her successful career, while admitting she’s not done.
“I wanted to be an actor. I studied to be an actor. It is my language with myself. It is how I have learned who I am, and I’m continuing to learn who I am,” Field told Parade earlier this month. “It took me a long time to get out of situation comedy television in the 1960s. But I studied acting for a long time in the ’70s and early ’80s and found myself watching what other people were doing on the screen. And I went to The Actors Studio in New York.”
While fans can name a dozen of Field’s works that could be considered her masterpiece, the actress hopes her greatest work is still on the horizon.
“I hope I haven’t done it. All performances, the films, the characters I’ve been lucky enough to portray always changed me,” she told the outlet. “They never left me, but I was always different after and so they informed me, they have pushed me. They have been my best friend and my worst enemy. So I can’t look at any of them—even the films that I will love. They are my friends. I can’t pick one over the other there, and that wouldn’t be fair. Even the rotten ones.”
Her latest work, “Remarkably Bright Creatures,” which is based on the novel by Shelby Van Pelt of the same name, immediately called to Field.
“I read two chapters and I said, ‘Yes, yes. I want to be apart of this,'” she told Daly on Tuesday. “When I read something it’s like butterfly wings go off somewhere inside me. When I know, I know. This is it.”
