Sally Field decided that it was time to demolish one of the great Hollywood myths: that she was the great love in the life of Burt Reynolds, with whom she was in a relationship for five years and with whom she worked on four films, including Two Rogues with Luck and its sequel.
The actress, in dialogue with the publication Variety, took as a kick the words that the Boogie Nights actor (who died on September 6, 2018) had poured into his memoirs, But Enough About Me, to give his version of the relationship that they filed In the book, Reynolds described Field as the most important woman he had ever had a relationship with, even lamenting that he couldn't "fight harder for her" as the bond between them was so strong.
Contrary to the actor's testimony, Field assured that everything he wrote about her "was an invention" "She was not a person who did me any good in any way," said the Forrest Gump actress, who met Reynolds precisely at the filming of the successful Two lucky rogues. From 1977 to 1982, they had a rocky relationship that took an emotional toll on Field.
Sally Field doesn't have fond memories of Burt Reynolds
"Somehow he made up a whole story, and he thought I was more important to him than I really was, because I wasn't important," Field added. "He just wanted to have what he didn't have, and I didn't want to deal with it," stressed the actress, who did not attend the funeral of her partner.
When they told her the news that the actor had died, the Oscar winner limited herself to providing a few statements to Page Six. "There are moments in your life that are indelible and will never be erased, that remain alive even 40 years later, and my years with Burt have never left my mind, they will remain in my history and in my heart as long as I live," he had Field manifested before the death of the actor, product of an acute myocardial infarction.
Reynolds died at the age of 82, and was working on the production of Quentin Tarantino, Once upon a time ... in Hollywood, in which he was going to play rancher George Spahn, a character that Bruce Dern eventually personified. The actor was married twice: from 1963 to 1965 with actress Judy Carne; and from 1988 to 1993 with fellow actress Loni Anderson, with whom he adopted her son, Quinton.
The actress said that the statements that her ex-partner gave about her were an invention
Later, he was in a relationship with singer Dinah Shore, before meeting Field. In his career, he also managed to forge great duos with his female counterparts such as Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen in Starting Over (1979), Goldie Hawn in Best Friends (1982), Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), Julie Andrews in The man who loved women (1983) and, of course, Field, who he also spoke about in 2015 with People magazine.
"She was the best actress I worked with, she is an undervalued performer," she said, revealing that Sally's mother told her some prescient words when she learned that she was in a relationship with her daughter. “I know you're going to break his heart, but please try to be gentle,” Margaret Field told him, to which he responded, “I don't know how you can break someone's heart and be gentle at the same time, but I don't know. I plan to do it, you never want to do that to another person.”
Three years before he died, Reynolds confessed that he missed Field
Likewise, Reynolds remembered Field wistfully. "I miss Sally, she adored her, she was so real what we had, she is a very special woman." She, on the other hand, remembers that romance in a very different way.
