Overview
- Field recounted on the June 11 episode of the Talking Pictures podcast that while filming the 1967 western The Way West she often could not make out anything Mitchum said to her.
- She said the only line she clearly understood was Mitchum telling her, “You know, you’re one of us,” which she took as a simple statement of inclusion.
- Field added that even when she could not parse his words she felt Mitchum was kind and accepting toward her on set.
- Years later she said Mitchum reaffirmed the sentiment when he told her “I told you so” at a People’s Choice Awards table in the early 1980s.
- The anecdote, reported by multiple outlets in mid‑June 2026, is presented as nostalgia and personal memory rather than a new revelation and comes with context that Field went on to win major awards while Mitchum died in 1997.