Robin Williams changed ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ filming order so Sally Field could leave set after her father died
nypost.comVanity Fair that she confided in him when her father passed away.Field and Williams were filming “Mrs. Doubtfire” when her dad died.
She refused to interrupt production with the personal family matter — until the leading man and his intuition stepped in. “I never shared this story before,” Field said. “I was in the camper outside of the courtroom where we were shooting the divorce scene.
My father had a stroke a couple of years before, and was in a nursing facility. I got a phone call from the doctor saying my father had passed — a massive stroke.
He asked if I wanted them to put him on the resuscitator. I said, ‘No, he did not want that. Just let him go. And please lean down and say, ‘Sally says goodbye.'”Field said she was “beside myself,” revealing, “I came on the set trying with all my might to act.
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