Sally Field is sharing a deeply personal story about the late Robin Williams . Field remembered her fellow actor fondly in a Vanity Fair piece published online Monday, saying he was so “sensitive and intuitive” that he changed the filming order of 1993′s “ Mrs. Doubtfire ” for her sake.
“I never shared this story before,” Field said in the piece, an oral history of Williams’ life and career. “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.” Field recalled making the heartbreaking decision to take her father off life support before returning to set and “trying with all my might to act.” Though Field said she didn’t cry, Williams seemed to know something was off — and took her aside to ask what it was.
When she told him, Williams said, “Oh my God, we need to get you out here right now.” “And he made it happen—they shot around me the rest of the day,” Field told Vanity Fair. “I could go back to my house, call my brother, and make arrangements.
It’s a side of Robin that people rarely knew: He was very sensitive and intuitive.” Williams died by suicide in 2014 at age 63. An autopsy later found that he had a progressive brain disease called Lewy body dementia , which can affect sleep, movement and cognitive abilities.
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