Overview
- Sally Field, in a new People interview cited by entertainment outlets, said her son has long joked that time on the Steel Magnolias set is “probably why he’s gay.”
- She recalled bringing six-month-old Samuel to the 1989 shoot, where co-stars Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, and Olympia Dukakis helped care for him.
- Samuel, now a writer and producer, wrote in 2023 that a frank talk about his queerness was used word for word in a scene between Field and Matthew Rhys on Brothers & Sisters.
- Field called making the film a “wonderful, wonderful experience” and described close weekends spent shopping, playing games, and gathering at castmates’ homes.
- In a 2012 Human Rights Campaign speech, she praised her three sons and said “nature made Sam,” showing years of public support for him.