Sally Field Reveals Robin Williams Changed ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Filming Order So She Could Leave Set After Her Father Died: ‘He Was Very Sensitive and Intuitive’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Sally Field recently told Vanity Fair that Robin Williams made arrangements for her to leave the “Mrs.
Doubtfire” set when her father died during filming. Field had not planned to disrupt the production due to the personal matter, but Williams could tell something was off about his co-star and made director Chris Columbus change the order of filming so that the production could shoot around Field for a day. “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.”‘” “I was of course beside myself,” Field continued. “I came on the set trying with all my might to act.
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