Sally Field: Embracing Fear

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🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sally Field is one of the best actresses in America... on film, on television and on stage. She's won Emmy Awards and Academy Awards, and has had starring roles on Broadway. But early in her career, she was boxed in by her own success on tv, playing flighty girls like Gidget and The Flying Nun, and she couldn't find a way out. But Sally Field would not accept that destiny. She trained with the best acting teacher, Lee Strasberg, and transformed herself. It took a while for Hollywood to catch up with her, but eventually got the kind of roles and recognition she deserved -- for films like "Norma Rae," "Places in the Heart," "Steel Magnolias," "Forrest Gump" and many others. In this episode you'll get to know just how funny and charming and profound Sally Field is, as she talks candidly about her process of reinvention, and her discovery that fear is an essential path to change. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2017

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0:00.0	One of the first things Sally Field ever performed in front of an audience was a scene from Romeo and Juliet that she'd practiced with her mom.
0:09.0	She was 13.
0:11.0	And I was truly, I must have been dreadful. I had no idea what I was doing, but it was so
0:17.2	Seminole, so incredibly important because I
0:21.3	had this magical thing happened to me. I had this magical thing happened to me.
0:24.6	I had no idea where I was going and I don't, I didn't know how it arrived, but I had this
0:32.4	glorious out ofof-body experience.
0:35.4	I was on stage saying words that I really didn't quite understand.
0:40.4	I had no idea of what a technique was or anything and I simply floated away.
0:46.0	I didn't exist. There was no Sally, little 13 year old Sally on stage.
0:52.0	There were hands and feet and a mouth working and saying things,
0:57.0	but they weren't mine. And it is this blissful, glorious high that I had early on in my life and it is what has taught me and guided me forever.
1:09.0	Because when I lost sight of what on God's green earth was I doing here? Why was I doing this? Why was I
1:15.8	beating myself up? I remembered that moment and my whole life has been trying to understand how to get back there.
1:24.6	This is what it takes, a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of
1:30.4	Achievement.
1:31.7	On this episode we've got a stunning intimate interview with
1:35.4	actor Sally Field. Some of her stories are painful but in the end they're a
1:40.8	testament to endurance and reinvention.
1:44.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:46.0	Had a name, this child is gifted.
1:50.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
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