Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I'm just so happy to bring in my conversation this week with the lovely, the talented, the wise, the experience, the extraordinary Sally Field,

the two-time Oscar winner for Norma Ray and Places in the Heart, an additional Oscar

nomination playing Mary Todd Lincoln, of course, in Lincoln, and so much in between there.

We can talk about Forrest Gump, we can talk about Steel Magnolius. We can talk about

Mrs. Doubtfire. It goes on and on. I'm sure I left out your favorite Sally Field movie. There's so

much. And now she's on to a new film called Remarkably Bright Creatures. It's on Netflix, based on a

runaway bestseller book by an author named Shelby Van Platt. If you haven't read the book, she talks you through the plot really well without giving away too much. She co-stars in the movie with Lewis Pullman, an up-and-coming guy, I'm sure you've heard of, Bill Pullman's son. He's a young guy. She is a widow in this movie. They work at an aquarium. They're brought together. This might sound silly, but it's deep by an octopus. There's a reason the book was a bestseller. And Sally Field loved the book. She read a couple chapters of it and was like, we need to make this into a movie. So we talk about that new Netflix project, but really the span of her

unbelievable career that started with Gidgett. Remember Gidgett ABC sitcom back in the 60s?

It ran only for one season. She was 17 years old when she landed the role, did it for one

year. Then she went on to the flying nun, and she talks a lot about how those were jobs, and they got her into the

business, but also they turned into a little bit of an albatross because nobody really took her

seriously. She wanted to be a serious actor in big movies, so she had to kind of reset, go learn how to

act, and boy, did she ever. She's also, I just have to say, a delightful human being, just somebody so thoughtful and kind and has so much to say about the state of the world and the state of Hollywood and what it's been like to be a woman in Hollywood for all these decades.

So sit back right now, relax, and enjoy spending some time with the one, the only Sally Field on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Sally, I'm so happy to see you.

Very nice to see you.

Thank you for doing this.

Thank you.

I think you and I could talk about our dogs for most of this interview.

Yeah, we could.

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