Sally Field Covers AARP April/May Issue

Posted on March 31, 2016

Actress Sally Field covers the April/May 2016 issue of AARP: The Magazine. She discusses her acting career in the interview, including her latest role in Hello, My Name is Doris. She also talks about marriage and life after years of being her mother's caregiver.

Sally says she is offered many generic roles. She says, "I'm in a place in my life where stuff that comes to me is just so generic, and you're like, 'Oh-kay.' It's the mother with all the kids, and the story is really about all the kids, and the mother is just there."

She plays a three-dimensional older female character in Hello, My Name is Doris. In one of the film's fantasy sequences her characters makes out with younger character played by actor Max Greenfield. She talked about that experience. She says, "I am more than 30 years older than he is, and we do these scenes where-even though it's supposed to be her fantasy-we really did shoot those kissing scenes. I would go, 'I'm really sorry. I'm really embarrassed,' and he would go, 'Forget about it, please. No apology necessary.' We are taught as females in this country that when we have an older face or body, we should feel shame."

Sally also talked about life after years of caring for her mother. Her mother died at age 89. Sally says, "In so many ways I feel like I'm new to myself. I believe all of us, in every stage of our lives, are coming of age."

Sally Field says she is not very good at marriage. She says that something Gloria Steinem's new memoir rang true to her. She says, "She said, if you never really had a productive connection with the father or fathers in your life, you have a hard time recognizing what the connection is. I don't think I have ever really understood what that connection is on a male and female level."

Sally's other recent roles include Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. She was terrific as Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln. She has been acting in films since the early 1960s. You can find the interview and cover shoot here on the AARP site.





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