Sally Field Reveals She ‘Hates’ That The Late Robin Williams Is ‘Not Here Anymore’
‘You should be aging like me!’ Sally Field reveals that she ‘hates’ that the late Robin Williams is ‘not here anymore’ as she reflects on Mrs Doubtfire
Sally Field has reflected on working with the late Robin Williams on the 1993 box office sensation Mrs. Doubtfire, revealing that she “hates” that he’s not here anymore.
The family comedy followed divorced actor Daniel Hillard (Robin), who disguised himself as a housekeeper to spend time with his children, when his ex-wife Miranda Hillard (Sally) gained custody of them as part of their separation.
Robin, 63, was found dead inside his Paradise Cay, California home on August 11, 2014, and the final autopsy report concluded his death was a suicide by “asphyxia by hanging.”
speaking to People Ahead of Sunday’s 2023 SAG Awards, the actress, 76, was asked about the film.
She said: ‘What you immediately think of is Robin. There is not a moment that is not filled with my love and joy to be in her presence.
Tragic: Sally Field has reflected on working with the late Robin Williams on 1993 box office sensation Mrs. Doubtfire, revealing she ‘hates’ that he’s not here anymore (pictured Sunday)
I mean, Robin was Robin. He was everything he appeared to be: a generous, caring, sweet, and brilliantly talented man.
‘We all miss him. He should be aging like me, for God’s sake. I hate that I’m not here.
In 2018, Sally said that there was one thing about working alongside her that drove Robin “absolutely crazy”.
The Oscar winner revealed that Robin was frustrated that Sally was so professional that she would never crack up during a scene, no matter how funny it was.
What drove him completely crazy is that he could never make me laugh. He would never break me up,’ Sally said during an interview with Lisa Wilkinson in Australia.
Describing her experience on the film with Robin as ‘crazy’ and ‘great fun’, Sally admitted that his methods could sometimes tire her.
‘He had infinite energy. And I would want to do take after take after take because every take I would want to do something different,” Sally explained.
In the yet-to-air interview, Sally also brings up her emotional memoir In Pieces, which details her stepfather Jock Mahoney’s abuse as a child.
Classic: The family comedy followed divorced actor Daniel Hillard (Robin), who disguised himself as a housekeeper to spend time with his children, when his ex-wife Miranda Hillard (Sally) was awarded custody of them as part of their separation.
When Lisa asked her how difficult it was to write about that experience, Sally was candid in her answer.
“Very emotional, because reliving what my childhood was with my stepfather is very complicated and emotional. Because it was so adorable at the same time that it was threatening,” he told Lisa.
Sally, whose breakthrough came in 1965 when she starred in the American sitcom Gidget, also opened up about much of her Hollywood past in the revealing memoir.
She shared details about her tumultuous relationship with the late actor Burt Reynolds, accusing the star of controlling her and turning her into “a shadowy version of herself.”
In another telling passage, she spoke about the casting-couch era, recalling a director who demanded she kiss him, saying, “I can’t hire anybody who doesn’t kiss well enough.”
Horrible: Robin, 63, was found dead inside his Paradise Cay, California home on August 11, 2014, and the final autopsy report concluded his death was a suicide resulting from ‘asphyxia by hanging’ (photographed together in 2008)