When Sally Field was nominated for her first Academy Award, then-boyfriend Burt Reynolds was lower than supportive.
Reynolds “was not happy” that his associate was up for 1980′s Best Actress award for her function in “Norma Rae” and “was not going to go” as her date to the ceremony, Field informed creator Dave Karger for the upcoming e-book “50 Oscar Nights,” per a Thursday report in People.
“He really was not a nice guy around me then,” Field mentioned.
She additionally shared that when “Norma Rae” premiered on the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Reynolds didn’t need her to attend.
“He said, ‘You don’t think you’re going to win anything, do you?’” she recalled.
If she did suppose that, she would have been right. Field received Best Actress at each the Oscars and Cannes.
The two actors began relationship after assembly on the set of 1977′s “Smokey and the Bandit,” and maintained an on-and-off romance for 5 years.
In 2015, Reynolds nonetheless referred to as Field the “love of my life” and mentioned that he missed her “terribly.”
“I don’t know why I was so stupid,” he mentioned. “Men are like that, you know. You find the perfect person, and then you do everything you can to screw it up.”
At the time, Field mentioned that she had “no response, really” to his proclamation, and that the 2 didn’t “really talk to each other” anymore.
After Reynolds’ demise in 2018, Field mentioned that her recollections of their time collectively would “never fade away.”
“He will be in my history and my heart, for as long as I live,” she mentioned.
