Sally Field Recalls Not Laughing at Robin Williams' Improvisation on Mrs Doubtfire Set
The actress told Stephen Colbert this week that she never laughed at Williams' improvisations during filming of the 1993 comedy, a stance that drove him to keep trying new material. Field also described how Williams halted production on a custody-battle scene after she learned of her father's death. She is currently promoting the Netflix film Remarkably Bright Creatures.
upworthy.comSally Field appeared on Stephen Colbert’s US talk show this week and revealed that she never laughed at Robin Williams’ work on the set of Mrs Doubtfire. “I would never laugh, ever,” Field said.
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She said that everybody else was laughing and carrying on while she did not laugh. “It drove him mad, actually,” Field said. Robin Williams was always trying something different to make her laugh.
The first time she laughed on the Mrs Doubtfire set was when Pierce Brosnan made a fart noise on his arm. “Pierce – wonderful Pierce Brosnan – we were sitting at a table at the restaurant, and he made a fart noise on his arm. And I was gone.
That was it,” Field said. During filming of a custody battle scene in Mrs Doubtfire, Field learned that her father had died. Robin Williams pulled Field aside, asked if she was all right, and then told the crew to wrap for the day so she could go home.
We’re wrapped here. ” Mrs Doubtfire was directed by Chris Columbus and released in 1993. Robin Williams played an actor disguising himself as an elderly Scottish female housekeeper in Mrs Doubtfire.
Field played the wife of Robin Williams’ character in Mrs Doubtfire. Robin Williams died in 2014 at the age of 63.
Field is currently promoting the Netflix film Remarkably Bright Creatures, in which her character bonds with an octopus voiced by Alfred Molina.
