Actors are usually asked about their best kiss on screen, but what about their worst? Sally Field hesitated to answer the juicy question during her performance last night (December 1). See what’s happening live with Andy Cohenbut ended up dropping a big bomb.
The actor, whose filmography includes Norma Rae and places in the heart (both of which earned her Oscars), revealed that her worst screen kiss was none other than her former co-star and ex-boyfriend Burt Reynolds.
Field warned the audience, “Okay, this is going to be a shocker, hold on guys,” before naming Reynolds, a response that met with disbelief WWHL Studio. And it’s only going to get worse.
Cohen asked, “Were you not dating then?” and Field said yes, they kissed in the film Smokey and the Bandit during the date, but he also didn’t impress on set. She said, “I try to look away and say, ‘that was just,’ but he … it just wasn’t something he did really well.”
As Cohen continued to press her for details, Field added, “There was just a lot of drooling going on.”
Field and Reynolds starred in four films together during their busy acting careers, including Smokey and the Bandit and its continuation Smokey and the Bandit IIalong with The end and Hooper.
The two dated between 1976 and 1982, and Reynolds, named Field, was the “love from [his] lifeshortly before his death in 2018. Field responded, saying the feelings were unrequited. She called him “controlling” in her memoirs and told diversity, “He just wasn’t good for me in any way. And he had somehow invented everything in his rethinking that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn’t.
After his death, Field said in an opinion, “There are times in your life that are so indelible, they never fade. They stay alive, even forty years later. My years with Burt never get out of my head. He will be in my story and my heart as long as I live. Rest buddy.”
Field isn’t alone in her bad feelings about Reynolds’ kissing techniques. Kathleen Turner, who starred with Reynolds in the 1988 comedy Switching Channels, also told Cohen that he was her worst on-screen kiss. In her case, she added, “He sucked.”
Damn ladies, what happened to “don’t kiss and tell”?
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