Sally Field Reflects On Career Struggles As She Accepts SAG’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Sally Field, 76, had a large nighttime astatine the 2023 SAG Awards on Sunday, February 26. The two-time Oscar victor was awarded the SAG Life Achievement Award for her unthinkable vocation successful Hollywood. Sally got a lasting ovation arsenic she accepted the grant from her The Amazing Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield. In her speech, the Mrs. Doubtfire star reflected connected the highs and lows of her career.

Sally explained that her archetypal speaking acting occupation was erstwhile she was 17 years aged and didn’t adjacent person an agent. Looking backmost connected erstwhile she became a subordinate of SAG aft landing a relation successful Gidget, Sally said, “I retrieve truthful intelligibly putting that small insubstantial paper successful my wallet. Quietly thrilled to telephone myself an actor.”

Sally Field astatine the 2023 SAG Awards (Photo: Rob Latour/Shutterstock for SAG Awards)

Sally besides talked astir however acting “was the 1 spot I could beryllium freely me.” Sally said, “When I was disconnected stage, I felt shy and cautious and hidden. But connected stage, I ne'er knew what I would accidental oregon do. I would astonishment myself. I wasn’t looking for the applause oregon attention, adjacent though that’s nice…sometimes. It’s ne'er been astir a request to fell myself down the characters. Acting has ever been astir uncovering those precious moments erstwhile I find myself dangerously alive. The task has ever been getting to that.”

“When I look astir this country tonight, I cognize my combat arsenic hard arsenic it was, was lightweight,” Sally said to her peers successful the audience. “I convey you and I applaud you. I cognize it has not been easy. But casual is overrated.” Sally besides said, “There is not a time that I don’t consciousness softly thrilled to telephone myself an actor. Thank you for this large grant from you.”

Sally Field astatine the 2023 SAG Awards (Photo: Rob Latour/Shutterstock for SAG Awards)

Sally became the 58th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award, the highest grant that’s bestowed astatine the grant amusement each year. Previous recipients see Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Carol Burnett, Betty White, and more. Sally’s 80 for Brady co-stars Rita Moreno and Lily Tomlin person besides won the grant before.

This isn’t the archetypal large grant that Sally’s taken home. She’s won 2 Oscars, 2 Golden Globes, 3 Emmys, and has besides been nominated for a Tony Award. Sally’s vocation began connected tv with the comedies Gidget and The Flying Nun. She transitioned to movie and starred successful countless fashionable movies similar Smokey and the Bandit, Kiss Me Goodbye, Steel Magnolia, and Mrs. Doubtfire. Her 2 Oscars are from her performances successful 1979’s Norma Rae and 1984’s Places successful the Heart.

Over the years, Sally’s vocation hasn’t slowed down astatine all. In the aboriginal 2000s, she starred in ER and Brothers & Sisters, the second of which won her an Emmy Award. In the past decade, Sally’s starred successful the films Lincoln, The Amazing Spider-Man, Hello, My Name Is Doris, Spoiler Alert, and astir recently, 80 For Brady. Sally Field genuinely is simply a nationalist treasure!

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