Sally Fieldis spilling the tea on her worst on-screen kiss — and it involved “a lot of drooling.”
In an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy CohenThursday night, theSpoiler Alertstar, 76, fielded an answer to a viewer’s question about her worst mouth-to-mouth encounter.
“Oh boy, shall I really name names here?” the actress wondered. “Okay, this is gonna be a shocker, hold on folks,” she said, before she quickly added, “Burt Reynolds.”
As the audience and fellow guestIdina Menzellaughed, Field dished a bit more about smooching the late actor, with whom she first starred in 1977’sSmokey and the Bandit.
“It was just not something he really did very well,” she said with a laugh. “I could go into detail, but you don’t want to hear it.”
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But Cohen pressed, asking if she was speaking about “tongue,” to which Field responded, “No … justa lot of drooling was involved.”
Field and Reynolds dated for five years in the late ’70s and early ’80s after meeting onSmokey and the Banditand had a tumultuous relationship, as Field detailed inher 2018 memoirIn Pieces, which came out days after Reynolds' death at the age of 82.
Since then, the two-timeOscarwinner has been outspoken about their love connection — including Reynolds' late-in-life assertion that Field was “the one that got away” and the love of his life.
In an interview withDiane SawyeronGood Morning Americashortly after Reynolds' death, the actress revealed what her time was really like with theBoogie Nightsstar, saying he was “a complicated man.”
“We had known each other about three days, four days at that point [during the filming ofSmokey and the Bandit]. Itwas instantaneous, andfour days felt like four years,” Field said.
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field inSmokey and the Bandit(1977).Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
“You can see it in our faces. We were sort of, you know, deeply entangled,” theSteel Magnoliasactress told Sawyer.
“That nature of it wasn’t just, ‘Oh, this is a love affair,’ " she said. “There was some ingredient between us having to do with my caretaking and him needing to be taken care of.”
In 2016, Field spoke to PEOPLE and agreed when she wasasked if she was “the one who got away"from Reynolds, whocalled her “the love of my life"in a 2015 interview withVanity Fair. “Well, yeah,” Field said at the time.
“Any response I would have would belong to him,” she said.
source: people.com
