Sally Field talks about Andrew Garfield & her Lifetime Achievement Award | SAG Awards 2023 - video Dailymotion

Sally Field chatted with The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet of the 2023 SAG Awards.

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00:00What does it mean to you to be here today and receiving this Lifetime Achievement Award?

00:04Well, it means a lot because it's them. It's them.

00:09I mean, you want directors to hire you and producers to want to work with you

00:14and writers to want to write with you or for you, but these are the actors,

00:19and the people you want to respect you are the actors.

00:24In the very beginning of your career, what's an early role you loved?

00:27It could be in a school play. It could be an early guest star role, an early role you loved.

00:32Well, the early part of my career was Gidget, and that was my first thing, so I loved Gidget.

00:39When you think back to that young girl, do you think she had any idea what her future held?

00:45You bet.

00:46I love that. That's the way to do it.

00:48And, of course, Andrew Garfield, he's giving you your trophy tonight.

00:51What does it mean to have him here?

00:52Well, I love him. I think he's here, too.

00:54I mean, he's my boy. I love him to pieces.

00:59And since we are here honoring actors, who's someone in your life that inspired you to act

01:04and really encouraged you to believe this dream was possible?

01:07Who inspired me to act?

01:10I was born an actor.

01:11I mean, I come from a working-class show business family.

01:14It was in my DNA.

01:18I really have been acting since I was 12 in junior high and high school.

01:24So, you know, I don't have, like, oh, I had an aunt, Gladys, who told me,

01:28I think you've got talent, Missy.

01:30I think you should get out there and try.

01:33It just was always.

01:34You were just born to do it.

01:36Born.

01:36Thank you so much.