Overview
- Sally Field, 79, tells People that her role in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun left her typecast and shut out of serious auditions.
- She says she responded by training intensively at the Actors Studio in Los Angeles under famed coach Lee Strasberg.
- According to Field, Jack Nicholson watched her work there and urged casting director Dianne Crittenden and director Bob Rafelson to see her.
- She says that led to a role in Stay Hungry in 1976, which she calls the start of a turnaround that also brought an Emmy for Sybil that year.
- Reports tracing her arc note later Oscars for Norma Rae and Places in the Heart, and say she now appears in Remarkably Bright Creatures on Netflix.